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Interesting Article on Gender in History, Life, and Fiction
This is a bit of a long article, but take some time and read it. It really is an incredibly well-written editorial on women’s role in history, gender roles, reality, language, stories, and cannibalistic llamas. http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/
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Surviving the World
I love the blog Surviving the World. By their own description, the blog is: “a webcomic focusing on all shades of life, from science to literature, politics to sports, romance to religion, and everything else in between”. It’s run by Dante, a chemical engineering teaching professor at Northeastern in Boston who was awesome enough to grant me permission to post this, and I discovered it while teaching in Fall River, MA. Usually, their pithy, pointy, and well-informed. Make sure you check out the site. For example, this is one of my favourite ones: Lesson #1238 – Harassment
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A New Term & Interesting Blogs
There’s this term that I find fascinating. It took 15 years for someone to point out that I didn’t have a clear one. And I’d never known the term for what it is. Gain knowledge of MacGuffins people. Once you do, it’ll be endless. The One Ring, bomb plans, a watch, a person, a piece of artwork, casino money, etc. So, I’ve found a whole slew of interesting blogs on writing this week and thought I’d share some links. Check out the Pet Peeves on Parade series going on over at Author! Author! For a lesson on The Yin and Yang of Adverbs go to Flogging the Quill. Find out…
