Kyle Overstreet

So my broke as heck family decided to have triplets on me. They took over the living room. They couldn’t afford a table for the fall holiday. Actually, they can’t afford more than one chair in the kitchen. So the family ate scrambled eggs on the toddler beds. 

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“Book” Review of Let’s Riot for Diet, presented guest by guest blogger @TriggerHappySJW

Let’s Riot For Diet:Celebrating a Life Underground by Cynthia Robbins (hello! Problematic alert. Sin-thia? are they (forgive me if incorrect pronouns) implying my life is sinful? Rob-bins? Is she implying that she wants to assault me in a dark alley and mug me?    This is a trigger warning for people who actually will NEED this. If you were a friend of this person, knew him, or simply heard about…

It’s another month to celebrate daily dedication to writing! This is my first Camp experience. I had such a successful November, that I greatly looked forward to the next month hosted by the folk at NaNoWriMo. I’m going for the 50k word count again. I’ll probably move the bar as I progress, but for now it’s fine.   After many excellent critiques on Scribophile, I realized that I started my story…

I need opinions on my behavior on Twitter here.

This continues after my post from yesterday. I was really angry and upset about what happened. Before I wrote the story on my blog, I wrote a few tweets. I deleted them, because the conversation was headed in a direction I wasn’t comfortable with and I didn’t want this person’s comments showing up on my thread. I deleted the tweets, so I can’t say word for word exactly what this woman and I said.…

I need opinions on my behavior on Twitter here.

This continues after my post from yesterday. I was really angry and upset about what happened. Before I wrote the story on my blog, I wrote a few tweets. I deleted them, because the conversation was headed in a direction I wasn’t comfortable with and I didn’t want this person’s comments showing up on my thread. I deleted the tweets, so I can’t say word for word exactly what this woman and I said.…

Racism: I learned more than I bargained for.

I never shop at Walmart. I could say I don’t for various political and social reasons, but honestly, I just don’t like the place. The store is huge and noisy, yet the aisles are narrow and claustrophobic. I get lost and can’t find any department, and I almost never see any employees to help me find it. But I needed to go in, because my daughter needed a bathing suit right away, and Walmart is the…

Amish is a religion. Not a brand. Not a style.

 Note. You might argue that Amish is a religion, and not a culture. Because they live separate from the rest of society and their entire way of life is lived according to religion, I call it a culture. You might argue that they are not an ethnic minorty because they are white. I call them an ethnic minorty because they trace their origin back to a specific region of Switzerland. They emigrated…

A look into cultural theft

I see the term “cultural appropriation” getting thrown around with wild abandon, without careful thought about what cultural appropriation is and what exactly is wrong with it. I don’t want to give out examples I’ve seen, because people might wrongly believe that I am trying to say that whatever they were pointing out was not real cultural appropriation. I will not make that judgement unless I am…

Mind Maps and Plotting

It started with a daunting project My first few stories had a very simple linear outline. I wrote them all in chronological order. I didn’t see any point in mind maps back them. Until this beast. After several crits on my Pigeon House piece, I discovered that I had serious structural flaws in the story. I was desperate to figure out what was wrong.  I was lost and turned to my characters. I was…