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In Defense of Unlovable Creatures
Read more: In Defense of Unlovable CreaturesI have this memory I keep in the secret pocket of my childhood coat. I recall sitting in front of a rock wall, watching an egg sac hatch. They were spiders—little zebra-striped jumping spiders, I think. Even as a child, I saw that they were young and fragile, and I saw how they wobbled around…
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Fear of Falling
Read more: Fear of FallingThere is no such thing as a fear of heights. Anyone suffering from it can tell you it doesn’t exist. The fear is real, absolutely, but it isn’t a fear of high places; it’s a fear of falling from them. Last summer I stood at the highest point of a most likely unimpressive cliff and…
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My First Love Was Not a Dark Lord of the Sith
Read more: My First Love Was Not a Dark Lord of the SithI had my next blog post all planned out. No really. And then something happened that made me toss it out the window. For secret reasons, The Other Lamm and I have been searching through boxes and boxes of old paperwork. It was unbearably tedious work, until he tossed me an old, deteriorating folder and…
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Why I Won’t Touch Time Travel with a Ten Foot Elder Wand
Read more: Why I Won’t Touch Time Travel with a Ten Foot Elder WandThere are some things in writing I’d rather not touch. I’m not particularly fond of description that makes my stomach turn. Graphic abuse, torture, drowning kittens: things like that. And there are some things I won’t touch simply because I KNOW I will inevitably screw them up. One of those things is time travel. The…
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How to Apply Pascal’s Wager to Publishing
Read more: How to Apply Pascal’s Wager to Publishing[SPOILER ALERT: This post shares some secrets from the film, The Ring. If you haven’t seen it yet, go do so, and then come back here and tell me how awesome it was. You’re welcome.] Blogging is not at all like riding a bicycle. You completely forget how to do it once you’ve stopped. Although, for…
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Jodi Lamm 