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Year Zero is Not a Conspiracy
Jordan Lee, censorship, and the forgetting of inconvenient books.
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Rachael Varca
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No more paid subscriptions, and our house is falling apart-ish.
Hello and what's new
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Rachael Varca
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Creativity as Vocation
Why the creative act is what you're supposed to do, but maybe not as a job. Also, don't be so hard on yourself.
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Rachael Varca
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AI and the coming authenticity wars
Everyone is going to be taking the pledge
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Rachael Varca
Neil Gaiman, broken people, deviance, and making Gods out of ordinary men
Should we be surprised when our heroes turn out to be villains?
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Rachael Varca
Why there is no God in Horror
An exploration of the general lack in the genre
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Rachael Varca
You’re Babies Aren’t Reading Your Facebook posts
For whom the post is written
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Rachael Varca
Finding Time for the Muse Amidst Sleep Deprivation
Thoughts on creativity while parenting
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Rachael Varca
Audience’s Don’t Want a Sermon, They Want to Be Entertained
Thoughts on Clifton Duncan's Note
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Rachael Varca
Creativity isn't dead, it evolves
In response to part of "We Live in Imaginary Worlds"
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Rachael Varca
Trusting that what you write will be read
It starts off as a tiny thought, just a glimmer perhaps that teases somewhere in the recesses of neural pathways, a bird working its way through the…
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What the Inklings had that other Writing Groups Lack
The pitfalls of working with others without a shared vision
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Rachael Varca
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