Four Things I Hope To See in OITNB Season 4

16. December 2015 Fangirling, Lists 1
I am fascinated by OITNB. The characters are the definition of diverse and unflinchingly real. The storylines range from whimsically crazy to homicidally heavy. As a writer and a storyteller, I learn from studying it, but as viewer? I consume. As far as I can find, there’s no official drop date for s4. I had ...

No-No-No-Noblog November

  The last day of November is a day of powerfully mixed emotions for me, or has been for roughly the last ten years. November is the home of that equal parts awesome and terrifying endeavor, NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo, for the uninitiated, is short for National Novel Writing Month. Now, this is a bit of a ...

NaNoWriMo Eve 2015

Some people celebrate today as Halloween and that’s cool. But the real holiday? NaNoWriMo Eve. If you’re not familiar with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), it is, in a nutshell, a creative challenge wherein participants attempt to write a 50 thousand word (or more) novel in the 30 days of every November since 2000. Now, ...

From Cardiff to Peking to LA

04. June 2015 Fangirling 0
I’m going to make a confession that has strained two real life relationships and usually garners ugly comments during reblogs: I still carry a bloody big torch for RTD era Doctor Who. I’m not saying RTD is without his flaws, but I appreciate his DW game. I had only heard of Torchwood in passing, but ...