Category: Randoms & My Life
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Two Myths About History (Refuted)
The course of history, like the course of true love, never did run smooth. Besides being a writer and a lover of books, I love history. It’s sad no one knows any history, and worse that no one teaches it (I do not count ‘Social Studies’ as history). On top of that, the little history…
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How to Learn Languages
Why do we do it wrong? Knowing another language is a “good thing.” People love to emphasize this to the kids complaining about having to learn French/Spanish/whatever in school. Languages have frustrated and confused travellers and students ever since the Tower of Babel, and being able to communicate with other is always a useful skill.…
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How to Cook for a Celiac: A Simple Guide
This post is slightly tangential – how to cook for celiacs – because I wanted a nice, easy explanation that lays down the basics about what you need to know to do this to be available online. Don’t worry, with your newfound knowledge of celiac disease, you can go and make your next main character…
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Will Ebooks Kill the Printed Book?
A lot of hardcore readers were doubtful when the Kindle came out, but there’s no denying sales of ebooks have skyrocketed these past few years. More and more people own e-readers, and several authors are making more money self-publishing electronically than they could ever make with a traditional publisher. Does this spell death for the…
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The First Shall Be Last
Why we don’t actually know who was first, why being “first” isn’t so clear-cut, and why it’s best not to be first anyway. There was an annoying internet trend a few years back, where people would race to post comments like “First to post!” or “Yes! First” under every article, without any useful contribution to…
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Famous Now, Famous Always? Not Necessarily…
Fleeting Fame Just imagine – you’ve got it made. You’ve climbed to the pinnacle of your career in acting, writing, music, or whatever, and now everyone in the world knows your name. This is what you’ve been dreaming about since you were a kid. A household name. Yeah, that’s you. You bet a hundred years…
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That’s Not Shakespeare! Or Maybe It Is
“Alas, poor Yorick!” – Howl, from Howl’s Moving Castle, quoting Shakespeare When I first read Howl’s Moving Castle, I didn’t realize this was a quote from Shakespeare until I read Hamlet a year later. Funny how we tend to attribute things to the last person that we remember said them, whether or not they actually…
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Top Ten of 2011: Ugly People, E-Publishing, and Limericks
OR, Why People Read Stories and Stuff It’s Quotable Wednesday today, and since it’s coming up on a year since I started blogging regularly, what better way to celebrate than to quote myself? So here is a list of the Top Ten Most Viewed posts of 2011, brought to you by Stories and Stuff. First…
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Not My New Year’s Resolutions
I’ve never believed in the whole goal-setting thing as much as I should believe in it. (I’ve been told I must set goals or fail at life since elementary school, and when people phrase things like that I have trouble believing them). It doesn’t help when goals you have set – eg: finishing nursing…
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A Call for New Classic Christmas Carols
Every year, people complain about how sick they’re getting of hearing the same Christmas carols over and over. The obvious solution to this would be to write some new carols. Unfortunately, the vast majority of new Christmas-themed music that comes out every year is hard on the ears. I’m trying to think of the most…
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