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The Nine Habits of Highly Effective Writers

These are the brass tacks. The bare bones. The pulsing core of effective writing habits. Not opinions, style guides, prose advice, tricks, individual process, or the exaltation of a past generation’s language and culture, but the things that all effective writers have in common throughout the ages and across the world. These are things that every effective writer swears by. The things they all…

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The A to Zen of The Writer's Life

A while back, I saw a poster called “A to Zen of Life.” It had “Dalai Lama” written across it in cursive, so I know it was totally legit. (Even though he is also attributed with writing Einstein quotes. Of course, none of them were about writing, so I had to come up with my own list. Avoid negative people and habits, but don’t confuse people who make you feel bad about negative habits with…

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The Cardboard Drawers Will Save Us

A million, zillion years ago, I was married, and my spouse and I did not have an easy time keeping our space clean, and, if you listened to them, the reason why was apparently that we didn’t own a set of cardboard drawers. Yes, you read that right. Stick with me, and I’ll make it make sense. And I’ll even tie it back to writing. First of all, I have to take a beat and recognize that there were…

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1-What's with this blog you post to every day.

That’s the whole reason this social media outreach is here at all: to get a few extra eyeballs (and maybe the occasional fan) on that blog…er…this blog. If it weren’t for this blog, and the traffic that FB brings here, I would hang up all these puns and memes and go enjoy an extra five or ten hours a week doing almost anything else. Fortunately if I can build an audience of a million on FB, a few…

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A hierarchy of 20 political activism actions you can take, each built on the foundation of those before, roughly in the order of their importance.

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Why polyamory? Isn’t one person enough? Why would you want to do non-monogamy? Is this just a slick way to cheat? Why? But why polyamory? Why this poly thing? Why? Wherefore aren’t thou monogamous? Dost thou have trouble with commitment? What’s with the polyamory thing? Why? WHY???

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If there could be said to be any "rules" at all, here are 18 of them coving grammar, risk, revision, and more.

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The very best posts of the last week on my public Facebook profile (and maybe a few from way back or that I just really liked).

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The Weaponization of Magick in Toxic Positivity

There’s a problem I see with most neopagans and modern practitioners…. First of all, let’s be real. There IS something to some of the claims practitioners make. One of the most fascinating things I’ve found about the magick I practice is that it’s usually traces about 90% of all the same lines as scientifically backed psychology. You don’t even have to go too far into the transpersonal realm for…

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Well this is what I've been doing for the last month. (It was supposed to take a week.) I tried to answer the question I'm hearing everywhere—and so many are asking ME—of "What can we do?"

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Starting a new series over at the Social Justice Bard side of my blog.

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Nine Things For Writers to Let Go Of

Letting go is a vital part of a pagan practice. In fact, we do it every time the moon starts to wane and again as days become shorter in an act of sympathetic magick, so the original writing of this during a waning moon over Samhain was particularly apt. But magick or not, letting go is important to everyone, so I came up with a list of things to let go for writers. [Before we go ANY further, I…

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Nine Things for Writers to Let Go Of

Letting go is a vital part of a pagan practice. In fact, we do it every time the moon starts to wane and again as days become shorter in an act of sympathetic magick, so the original writing of this during a waning moon over Samhain was particularly apt. But magick or not, letting go is important to everyone, so I came up with a list of things to let go for writers. [Before we go ANY further, I…

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Introducing Rhapsody

Introducing Rhapsody It’s overdue, but it’s time to introduce you to the latest standing member of the Hall of Rectitude. I present Rhapsody. I moved in with Rhapsody (and her two kids, Treble and Clef) in August of 2021.  Rhapsody doesn’t take that much of an active hand in the front line superhero work, but tends to let her music enhance everyone around her. She can inspire, delight,…

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We’re doing a lot more than just, “Hey we're over here now!” Here is roughly what we have planned for fusion of the old Blogger-site Writing About Writing with our new and improved The Cookie Crumbles.

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First Post!

Welcome to The Cookie Crumbles! This is what I’ve been working on for the last couple of months. As you can see, there is a lot of content my wonderful web-assistant Rhapsody has been moving over so that it’s not just a bunch of empty cupboards around here. But there’s also a lot of places we’re still working on that will be coming soon. I’ll tell you roughly how the move is going to happen…

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Folks I have no articles behind paywalls, nor will I ever. Even my fiction is and will continue to be free. But I do have patrons who help me keep the rent paid and the lights on. I love my big-ticket donors. But it is lots of little contributions I couldn't do this without. So I try to make one of my very best rewards the lowest possible tier. Just $3 a month (and you can get a discount if you buy a year's worth at a time). They get news a little ahead of time and the closest thing to "exclusive content" that I actually ever write.