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On The Help and Abilene Cooper
I have seen this article all over Facebook again and I thought I would give my two cents. The original case was thrown out based on the time it took for the woman to make her claim (the author gave her a book with a note that said she named her main character Abilene, but that it was based on the woman who raised her, a maid by the name of Demetrie McLorn). Now, Abilene Cooper did ask, back in 2011, for a judge to look at the case again, but nothing came of it. So, then, my question is why did the second time around come to naught? What…
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Facebook Post that Bothered Me
My uncle posted this on Facebook and it bothered me. Here is the image and my response. What do you guys think, readers-mine? The issue I have with that statement is that America has never had one language. We are a landmass that was settled by Native Americans with their many languages first, then we had Vikings, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and French who all settled here before our nation was one nation. Then those people brought in African slaves with all of their many languages. After that we’ve been blessed as a nation to have immigrants from everywhere come to our country and help build our technology, infrastructure, and…
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On realizing my favourite characters are twenty…
Someone asked a very good question on the NaNoWriMo Facebook page: How old are your favourite original characters? I blinked and then had to do math. Math! And man, did I feel strange afterwards. My favourites are twenty-years old. You read that right. Twenty. My first short stories with them were written when I was eleven. I am now thirty-one.I then did some even more scary math because people then wanted to know how long I’d been writing. The first stories my mom has saved are from kindergarten, though I apparently was writing stories a bit before that first saved one. This means I’ve been writing stories for twenty-five to…
