L.T. Getty's Blog, page 20

I’ve been trying to give both specific and generic examples in the past few posts. Obviously I can’t go into everything – and I don’t want anyone to think that if they wrote something I kvetched about it is a ‘I hate it I hate you graaaargh.’ It’s more of an in general rant, but there’s stories that use cliches and they’re deconstructions, or the writing is that good that I don’t care. It’s like the Bechdel test – failing doesn’t mean that the work sucks. The movie Gravity fails, but there’s...

Sorry for the delay – I wrote most of this a while ago, but this flue/bronchitis will not let up. I finally have paid real money for real medicine, as well as gone to the health store for a placebo. I have no way to determine a control group, but I’d like the other medics to stop looking at me like a test subject for chest auscultation if we get a student. You can hear it without a stethoscope, grumble grumble.

A few months ago I read an article about Why Fiction Needs more “Ugly” Heroines. T...

Sorry for the delay – I’m having what I’m going to call a flu turned bronchitis. I keep waiting for days when I’m more coherent. NOPE. And I was going to tackle beauty here too, but this is a big topic, and walls of text are scary, so expect beauty in a day or so.

Let’s first define slut shaming. I’m not going to talk about the politics of The Scarlet Letter, the tragedy of Dido or even the redemption of Fantine. That stuff is above my pay grade for starters, and there’s no way in this artic...

Sorry for the delay – I’m finally getting over that flu, and I basically took three days off to go camping/kayaking. Yes, I was sick for it but the weather’s been beautiful, and I can stand the fresh air when I’m hacking. And I was getting ready to post, and then work called and I can’t say no to the easy money.

I’m not in women’s studies and know very little about other cultures. For the sake of this article, oppression will be beyond gender roles, to the point where a person is effected eit...

I’m going to start out by saying that I’m odd.

I could talk about how I used to play video games, my inspirations for writing came from the old-school style pulp science fiction novels, but that’s really window dressing.

My reasoning for the disclaimer is that my Myers-Briggs Profile is INTJ – and as a female, this is the second least-common personality profile in the population. It’s not a bad thing; common INTJ traits often lead the vast majority of the population to think we’re highly int...

So I had a blast in Calgary this last weekend – I know, it’s Friday and the convention was technically over on Sunday – I came back Monday and went to work Tuesday, and it’s looking like another crazy work week.
Let’s start with that reading challenge:

Book with a 1 Word Title: Awakening by Shannon Duffy
A Book Based on a True Story: The Slaughter by Ethan Guttman
Book of Short Stories: Canadian Noir Edited by Claude Lalumiere
A Book you can finish in a Day: Lake in the Clouds by Edward Will...

So I started writing about women in science-fiction and fantasy several times in the past month and a half, and it always descended into a rant. Alongside me working an awful lot since let’s say, May Long (which I worked!), let’s just say that my thoughts needs to be refined. So first, my reading challenge, then on to the Sad Puppies thing I’ve been quiet about.

A Book with more than 500 Pages – The Crippled God by Steven Erikson
A Classic Romance: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Graphic Nove...

Disclaimer: Inspired by a meeting, but in no way reflects how the meeting went.

First off, let’s get specific – this is for a meeting with someone working as an editor, not another reader giving feedback. I’m gearing this towards one-on-one feedback, though I have heard of meetings where it’s possible to have a panel give feedback, (I’ve been to all of one). These are different then writer’s groups where everyone is throwing in their two cents – which can be helpful, though I find the convers...

Yeah yeah, update it more often. This is going to get a lot harder.

Book Recommended by a Friend: The Kill Order by James Daschner
A Book with a One Word Title – Enslavement by Melinda Friesen
A Book Turned into or Based on a TV Show – The Book of Negros by Lawrence Hill
A Book You Own but Never Read – Skirmish by Michelle Sagara West
A Book Set in a different Country – Silent Symmetry by JB Dutton

Okay – disclaimer on Skirmish – I’ve had the book for about two years, and I think I kept pick...

I should really get on with updating that 2015 reading challenge, but my mouse I think I left at my parent’s house last week so doing anything in photoshop like, making simple red X’s through things will look even more bad than usual, and I have to go back to The Peg tomorrow for training, so hopefully I won’t get too bogged down shortly and update the list.

Been busy – May 2 was International Authors for Indies, which I was not a part of, finding out about it about a week before it happened...