Here’s a thing that happened to me: I walked into an independent bookstore to inquire about hosting an event related to my new book. I was, after admitting to be an independent author, shut down pretty quickly. Some indie bookstores, it turns out, have no time for indie authors. So that’s cool.
Fuck Censorship Already
Big news in swearing today, guys. The New York Times dropped an effer. It was in the context of a quote from a book, and in a well-buried section of the The Gray Lady, but it was there. And oh, how the world gasped.
Before commenting further, let me first expose a bias of mine. I love discussing swearing in media and literature so much, that this isn’t even the first time I’ve written about it. It’s fair to say I’m passionate about swearing. I don’t do it for shock value; I don’t write swear words into my writing when it’s not appropriate, but I am fervently committed to saying exactly what I want to say the way I want to say it, using the entire spectrum of word tools in my writer’s toolbox. I think everyone should, writers and speakers alike. Censorship is censorship is censorship, right?
Launched a book yesterday; cleaning my kitchen today
If you happen to keep a list of my daily activities at your side at all times, you’ll note that the above headline was written yesterday. That’s as far as I got. I did clean the kitchen, but it took the entire day. The entire day. It’s not that it was that messy (I mean, it was, but no room can be that messy), it was just all I had in me.
Natalie Burg 