Hi! I am still (again) sick. Big surprise. But still not dead, lj evidence to the contrary.

1) Am in California, catching all the fun California bugs. *wet rag wave* Still no immune system.
2) The Bloodchildren anthology is out and looks fabulous! And I'm in the also-fabulous-looking We See A Different Frontier antho ( Read more... )

...and why that's problematic.

So, signal boosting.
Also, continued splat so comments off here. Also cause they should go on her post.

How did they know?


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Bad news first: I'm still sick, and doubling the cortisol again for a couple days because, body, WUT, staying sort of semi-miserable for weeks on end = not okay. Also I may somehow have picked up another bug or something ( Read more... )

G'morning!

So yesterday I went wiv kirizal and voidmonster to our local writergroup exercise-meeting. I think this is the first meeting I'd made in nearly a year, what with the illness and the fact that it's in the evenings? Anyway! I went half expecting to crash while there and not actually write anything ( Read more... )

Been thinking about face and how we negotiate it on and off since rose_lemberg mentioned to me a few months ago that every interaction is a face challenge. (I don't remember her exact words, and I'm pretty clueless about this side of things, not being a sociolinguist, so my thinking is user-end only and anything I get wrong is Not Rose's Fault ( Read more... )

Via jimhines , 6 surprising bad practices that hurt dyslexic users.
ETA4: And polenth's follow-up post, A Dyslexic's Thoughts On Webpages

- I do left-justify stuff. (ETA3: Which is one thing I do right, I meant but did not say *facepalm*)
- But I double-space after periods, though switching from html to rich text seems to fix that for me. 
- And I use default fonts ( Read more... )

This is cobbled together from IM conversation with tithenai and kirizal, and grounded in recent lj-discussions, me thinking about my own writing, and my brain being rearranged by one of my advisor's papers on viewpoint (she does this.) So it's sort of about Everything, as understood by Shweta.

ETA: If this sparks a response post of any sort, I do hope you'll ( Read more... )

So, I'm starting to make diss progress again, and have story thoughts bubbling. Clearly SD is bad for me cause my brain comes back each time I leave ( Read more... )

Thinking something out loud, here ( Read more... )