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Posted on Saturday August 23rd, 2008 at 09:56 in character development, dumbledore, dumbledore is gay, harry potter, jk rowling, literary characters
I know it's been almost a year since J.K. Rowling announced that Dumbledore was gay, but that's okay--because this post isn't really about Dumbledore, or even Rowling. Not specifically. It's about the nature of literary characters.Dumbledore, of cou...
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Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 18:41 in language, pet peeves
I saw a subject line on a discussion board this afternoon about "pet peeves", and it suddenly hit me that I'd never really thought about the phrase before--something that surprised me, because I think about words a lot. Sadly, though, there aren't en...
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Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 08:48 in charity, journalism, lisa smith-batchen, proof positivity, writing
I've seen a lot of discussion in online forums (especially blogging forums, of course) recently about whether or not bloggers should be treated as journalists. There are almost as many views on this subject as there are blogs, but mine is pretty str...
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Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 15:19 in Happy Birthday, magazine writing, newspaper writing, publishing, writing jobs
Today is my 42nd birthday. This is a comfortable place for me, because I've always thought of 40 as sort of the last landmark. I'm comfortably past the midpoint now, and no more concerns. I've been blessed with the ability and opportunity to do alm...
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Posted on Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 07:56 in blog catalog, bloggers unite, human rights
As anyone who regularly reads this blog knows, I'm an active member of Blog Catalog. One of the best things about Blog Catalog is that virtually from the moment the current ownership took over, the community has been looking for ways to use blogging ...