8/25/13: ETA I wrote this after having decided not to write about it. I filtered it tightly. Then I privacy-locked it. At this moment (two months later), I'm unlocking and unfiltering it because I have things to say to which it pertains, and it's time.
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I spoke with davidlevine about this last night because I was so upset, but I woke up ( Read more... )

...but if I told you all about it, I'd have to kill you all, so that won't happen. What I will say is that I stayed somewhere awesome and luxurious, took a wonderful hike, had a great spa afternoon, ate some fabulous meals, and have been completely spoiled for real life.

We now return you to your previously scheduled Monday evening.

::grin::

On social media, a friend has been pointing to many of the essays by one particular writing and publishing guru. He points to this guru's work exclusively and is apparently following said guru's advice pretty much to the letter. To each his own, surely. But my position on gurus is as follows ( Read more... )

Yesterday I posted the following list of things I wanted to post about on LJ ( Read more... )