Category Archives: writing

Reflecting Theme

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Arizela

I recently had the privilege of helping my niece through a very difficult birth. There were a number of fairly major (life threatening) complications and my training as a doula (professional childbirth assistant) and a nurse came in handy pretty … Continue reading →

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Men in Fiction

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Arizela

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been doing a good bit of reading on the subject of feminism and humanism and I’ve come to a rather unexpected conclusion about men and writing male characters. The men get the short … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Arizela

There’s been a decent amount of talk lately centered around the humble pseudonym, primarily in relation to sites like Facebook and Google+, which specifically require people to use their “real” names, sometimes in relation to work or parts of who … Continue reading →

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The Good Life

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Arizela

I followed a link from Twitter (thanks, @JustineMusk) tonight to a blog post called How to Cure Deep Procrastination. It poses what seems like a very simple solution to curing real, problem-inducing procrastination, like the kind that gets people bad … Continue reading →

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Writing Tool for Readers

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Arizela

When I was a kid, I was a voracious reader. I also grew up in a house that didn’t have a lot of books, where the only adults were functionally illiterate, and where going to the library was just one … Continue reading →

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