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There Are No Rules
Author: Angela Rasch Angela Rasch's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) AOL this morning has a story about Jack Norworth, the man who penned “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”. The refrain to that song is almost as familiar as the Big C ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 10 comments
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Revealing?
Author: Angela Rasch Angela Rasch's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) What does it mean when contest after contest draws dozens of entries and Hatbox hasn't had a single new story contributed to it in months? Jill ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 9 comments
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Let's Try It Again
I've never bought into the numbers put out by Fictionmania. Fifty-seven million hits in the last dozen years seems a bit much by several fold. ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 7 comments
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Hatbox Helper
As disclosed in another blog this weekend, Erin is $100 short of what she needs for the month for BC. In the past Hatbox has worked best when there are a steady stream of new pieces being offered for the subscribers. ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 6 comments
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Free Info
Noah Lukeman has written a number of excellent books on writing. He is a successful literary agent and has decided to give back to the community with free advice on his website and with his ezine. I get the ezine and enjoy his comments go to the following ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 2 comments
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A Fleurie of Activities
Today another fine writer paused at the threshold to BC, spun on her high heels, and chucked in the towel. Even though this ink-stained wretch...er... carpal-tunnel pained, sometimes kvetch...never employed clichés in her writing, her reason for ending he ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 25 comments
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Mister
Dimelza has noted that Mister has been up long enough. She has asked that I take it down, so I will honor that request and delete it. I will leave it up for one more day to allow everyone that last chance to read it. Jill ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 8 comments
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How Can I Be So Freakin' Dumb
Sometimes you just don’t feel like making all that much effort. You know the feeling — when you know you should look good, but all you can manage is a brush or two through your hair and a little lip gloss. It’s the same thing with writing. You get a good ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 14 comments
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Mean-Spirited
Just a general observation. It seems to me that blogs lately have mostly been leaning toward negative. It also seems like many comments are chippy and launched rather than offered. Someone commented on a story I wrote over a decade ago, telling me it' ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 8 comments
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Irony
Irony can be described as an incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs. On the left side of the screen this morning is a message discussing the apparent demise of Storysite. On the right side is the display of contributions to Hatbox. ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 3 comments
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High Anxiety
It’s hard to believe that it has been over thirty years since some of my darkest hours. I was in a horrible work situation and also trying to lose too much weight too quickly through a diet of mainly caffeine laden diet cola. Out of the blow I started hav ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 4 comments
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Thank you
I have so many things to be grateful for this year. This has been one of the most stressful years of my life, but much of what caused that stress has been resolved and now all that angst seems so... meaningless. There were many days when RL pressures beca ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 1 comment
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Editing
I've run into a problem and can't finish an editing job for Wren Phoenix. Her story is compelling, quite romantic, and is running in excess of nine chapters. I'm more of a stand-alone story writer, but someone who has experience with serial ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 1 comment
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Testosterone Filled Locker Room
Why is it many discussions regarding transitioning seem to careen off into nonsense? What compels us to argue over whether or not a person can reassign their gender without having surgery? I suppose it’s a logical extension of the internal battle we’ve wa ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 15 comments
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Please Help Me!
Please Help Me! It seems like more and more often we are hearing in blogs from people who are very unhappy because they will never be the ideal feminine person their mind tells them they were born to be. When I go to the mall — which is almost never — eve ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:26pm - 28 comments
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Oh God I'm Andy Rooney
The blog this morning about dropping your phone in coffee made me stop and think. I’m a living, breathing anachronism. The only phones I have couldn’t be dropped in coffee... unless you had a massive urn. ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:25pm - 19 comments
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Mary Christmas
Author: Angela Rasch Angela Rasch's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Let me the first this year to reprise that awful pun: "Don we now our gay apparel." I first saw it used in a trans reference in Playboy over forty yea ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/05/18 - 2:25pm - 6 comments
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Do I Suck?
Recently an author asked if her writing sucked. Since writing is such a personal journey let's make that "Do I suck?" Every author on Big Closet should look at Sue Brown's latest story... the second book of Football Girl. It is as good ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/06/03 - 9:52am - 19 comments
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Woe Is Me
Don't you ever get tired of angst, whining, and self-pity? There has to be something positive in your life. You are in charge of your attitude. That's a fact. It isn't just a bumper-sticker. Life is about change. Good stories are about chan ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/06/18 - 11:10am - 12 comments
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To Bear with Unbearable Sorrow
For many who frequent BC, a goal has been to achieve the unattainable. We come to BC frustrated. We deem ourselves to have too many male secondary sex traits to succeed in a physical transformation. For a while we read TG fiction to lose ourselves in a wo ...
Angela Rasch - 2011/06/18 - 11:10am - 6 comments