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The Junk Room

The Junk Room

This is where we keep all the “oth­er” arti­cles. You know, the ones that don’t quite fit neat­ly into oth­er Reli­quary cat­e­gories. A few of them are sort of about one thing, but there aren’t quite enough to start anoth­er full menu. Most are just don’t real­ly belong any­where else, but we just can’t bear to throw them out.

It’s a lit­tle messy in here. I tried to stack the arti­cles neat­ly along the walls at first, but then peo­ple just threw a bunch of crap in. (I mean why do we even have a giant can of hamdingers with a “Don’t tell Joel” note on them. That’s weird, right?) I keep mean­ing to get in here and orga­nize, but some­thing always comes up.

Please watch your step. It’s start­ing to get a lit­tle crowd­ed down here.

First Post
The Trou­ble With Short Sto­ries
My Name is Chris and I Use Two Spaces
Three Last Ubergeeky Words of Warn­ing About NaNoW­riMo
Three Bits of Insight and Three Impli­ca­tions from Mark Lawrence on Red­dit
J.K. Rowl­ing Talks About Fail­ure (and I blath­er about it a bit too)
In it for the mon­ey?  Do some­thing else.
Art, Life, and Sup­port Mech­a­nisms
Rec­og­niz­ing Real Oppor­tu­ni­ties
Maple and Vine (A Not Quite Review)
An Open Let­ter to Lynn Shep­herd 
The Human­i­ty of Nuance

Writ­ers and Pol­i­tics Be care­ful when deal­ing with pol­i­tics. The truth is a casu­al­ty of polit­i­cal writ­ing.  Avoid­ing pol­i­tics entire­ly isn’t the answer.  But there are rea­sons to be cau­tious.

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