Prejudice and Pride: Singing Jane Austen’s Song
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a husband. There is a Borges story called Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, in which...
View ArticleMore genderswitching: Miss Shirley Holmes
I have been genderswitching again. A short story this time: A Scandal in Bohemia, by Arhur Conan Doyle. Here is the genderswitched version: below are my comments on it, and on the process in general. I...
View ArticleHow I predicted the iPhone (not really)
So my novel is set in a different world from this one, but only very slightly, like the width of one quantum universe away. If quantum universes work the way I think they do, which they probably don’t...
View ArticleUnexpected items in bragging area
Hello! I should really update about what I’ve been doing elsewhere, as it’s all got quite busy. (And also, I was desperate to use this title.) In December I was accepted into a Guardian writers’...
View ArticleBut is it art?
Because I have children, I tend to find objects in random places and positions around the house. If I like the resulting tableau, I take a photo of them on my phone. After a while I started putting...
View ArticleThings to which I have been up
I haven’t been making blog posts as often this year as I did last year. Partly because last year I had a baby who slept a lot, whereas this year I have a toddler with very firm beliefs about how often...
View ArticleA Genderswitched Anthology
But it isn’t only that Jeeves’s judgment about clothes is infallible, though, of course, that’s really the main thing. The woman knows everything. There was the matter of that tip on the...
View ArticleThe Useful Anxiety of Narrative Thinking
I think about being kidnapped far too much. It should not be high up my list of things to worry about. There is no obvious reason why I should get kidnapped. I am not famous. I am not related to anyone...
View ArticleAngilt and Other Emotional Cocktails
Babies only seem to have room for one emotion. It’s as though joy or hurt or hunger literally takes up so much room inside them that another feeling can’t get in till the first one’s gone. Distract a...
View ArticleHow bad is Kristen Stewart’s poem?
I have no real qualifications to write this post. I don’t know what divides a good poem from a bad one. I do have an English degree, and we probably did discuss that kind of thing, but all that...
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