Tag: Blogs
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Horror is a feeling, not a genre
Originally posted on Noir Femme: Horror has one goal: to disturb. To remind us that we don’t have all the answers. To explode our illusions of being in control. There may be monsters or the supernatural, but there doesn’t have to be. There may be blood, gore, and guts, but there doesn’t have to be.…
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New blog: Sci Femme
I’ve resurrected an old idea of mine, which is to read science fiction about women and blog about it. I call the blog Sci Femme, and I hope to use it as a forum for longer-form essays about themes and trends in science fiction written by women. I’ll be looking at both new and classic…
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So much crappy writing, so little time…
The web has made it easy for anyone anywhere to publish their writing with very little effort or money, and for the most part, I believe this is a VERY GOOD THING. There probably hasn’t been a time in history when people could so easily express themselves, and instead of shouting into the void, there’s…
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Let’s all stop saying “after the jump”…
The phrase “after the jump” on blogs is one of my particular pet peeves, and I have noticed that usage does not seem to be abating. One reason why it’s annoying is because the majority of the readership has no idea what it means — including the blogger, in many cases. Besides being unintelligible, it’s…
Shannon Turlington 