Wednesday Thoughts
Apr. 1st, 2015 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribFor some reason, yesterday LiveJournal wouldn't let me post. Today (so far) it is, so have a few thoughts.
Thought, Trivial
I, like most people, have a manual can opener at home. It was lousy, and when it broke I bought an OXO Good Grips. Wow! The improvement between my el-cheapo and the (less than $20) OXO was like night and day! The new can opener is like cutting butter.
Thought, Writing-Related
Posted on Jim Hines' blog As a black writer, my talents, skills, and credentials are always under suspicion. Simply because Noah Scott, the narrator in my YA novel, Hollowstone, was a black teenager, I was accused of author insert by white colleagues and readers alike. On the flipside of that, I caught heat from other white critics because Noah wasn’t gay and I failed my people. And because the publisher traditionally markets to blacks and audiences of color, white critics were the first to claim that said publisher was not a legitimate operation.
Thought, Picture Worth a Thousand Words Edition
Thought, Trivial
I, like most people, have a manual can opener at home. It was lousy, and when it broke I bought an OXO Good Grips. Wow! The improvement between my el-cheapo and the (less than $20) OXO was like night and day! The new can opener is like cutting butter.
Thought, Writing-Related
Posted on Jim Hines' blog As a black writer, my talents, skills, and credentials are always under suspicion. Simply because Noah Scott, the narrator in my YA novel, Hollowstone, was a black teenager, I was accused of author insert by white colleagues and readers alike. On the flipside of that, I caught heat from other white critics because Noah wasn’t gay and I failed my people. And because the publisher traditionally markets to blacks and audiences of color, white critics were the first to claim that said publisher was not a legitimate operation.
Thought, Picture Worth a Thousand Words Edition
