As someone weird who is all about normalizing weirdness, I don't love "weird" being used to criticise the Right, but I nevertheless support the strategy because I understand I'm not the center of the world.

Priorities, people. Priorities.

hey not to be all corny but please understand and internalize that your creative work is vital and beautiful whether others see/hear it or not and that your creative expression enriches the world just by your having done it

I think what makes me such a great writer is that sometimes I'll look at a word and it stops working. my grasp on linguistic meaning is tenuous, at times. I don't know what that has to do with being good at writing, but it has to mean something because otherwise it would be a weird thing to admit to

I think one of the best things you can do with information is be privy to it

The year is 2024. Chuck Tingle has emerged as genuinely one of the finest and most insightful authors of the era.

Meanwhile, AP headlines read like: Pounded in the Couch by Domald Tromp's Creepy Little Weirdo.

as someone who reads a metric ton of short speculative fiction: writers should write the weird thing and publishers should publish the weird thing

quick guidelines for writers: a period indicates a pause of about ten seconds. a comma, about seven second. an em-dash should be pronounced as loudly as possible. an ellipsis should remove a month from your lifespan. a semicolon should taste like dirt in the reader's mouth. a sentence can end wherev