Reader Questions: Doing it all

[mizkit]

Thirzah asks keeping kick-ass real? Why is it ok to have a hero/ine shoot people in fiction, when we’re opposed to guns & violence in real life?

Well, I write about a god-fighting shaman, so I’m not sure how *real* I keep kick-ass, but… :)

I think it’s all right for us to explore violence in fiction precisely because we don’t in real life. It’s a

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[silkiemom]

*hugs*

Parenting is pretty darned relentless work. No matter how much parenting you do, there's always going to be more that you could do. Sometimes it's hard for me to deliberately take time off for me, because I feel like I should be doing *something*. But not taking time off backfires and just leads to me exploding messily and being completely useless.

Hang in there!