Reply to comments: British children's drama, Socrates, Plato, and language in historical fiction and

Hey, you guys know that you can reply to any of my Reply to Comments, don't you? One of the reasons I place my replies in a separate post is so that people won't miss seeing the conversations sparked by past posts.

How I reply to comments at this blog.


( Reply to lusiology about British children's dramas )

( Reply to Anonymous (hey, don't forget to sign your anonymous posts, guys) about Socrates and Plato )

( Reply to catana1 about language in historical novels )

. . . and thank you to MightyMaeve, Clare London, sa_tsl, and slashbluegreen for your kind comments about "The Unanswered Question."

Daily life: Looking back at the past

"I don't go around asking authors about their gender credentials to see whether they're straight women, in order to know whether I'm allowed to read their stuff."

--My gay male apprentice, an avid reader of gay romance, commenting on the controversy over whether m/m fiction is created solely by and for straight women.

"I wonder whether all those guys who are upset about m/m romance writers appropriating their culture are sitting around wearing pink triangle buttons? Because if they are, they've appropriated a symbol that means, 'Line me up for the gas chambers.'"

--My apprentice again.

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( Writing and Home: Life in 2003 )

( Writing and Home: Life in 2004 )

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( Writing and Simplicity: Wrapping up a moderately awful month )

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