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The Art of Goofing Off: Episode 6

Thea van Diepen

Before I get into this, an explanation for the radio silence on the poetry front: Between projects, everything goes florp for me for a while until stuff settles down and I go to the next thing. It always happens. I always pretend to myself that it’s not going to happen, and thus forget to make contingencies. So, after my huge editing push for Like Mist Over the Eyes, I wrote a bunch for an entirely unrelated story, got to the

The Art of Goofing Off: Episode 4

Thea van Diepen

This episode features movies, TV shows, and webcomics. As usual, scroll to whatever section you’re most interested in. Stories on the Big Screen (Movies) Jupiter Ascending I love this movie. Some people, upon hearing this, have been surprised, so let me explain: When I watched the trailers, I was inordinately excited over the sci-fi/science fantasy premise, and that here was a sci-fi movie with a female main character. My one hesitation was at the end of one trailer, where Jupiter

The Art of Goofing Off: Episode 3

Thea van Diepen

The Art of Goofing Off now has its own official category! If you’ve missed any previous episodes and want to read them, or if you want to remember what it was I talked about that one time, now you can find all the episodes in one handy category. You’re welcome :) Stories on the Big Screen (Movies) Lars and the Real Girl This is a weird movie. And a beautiful movie. I want to explain the story, but I also

The Importance of Cats and Writing What You Know (Part 3 of 3)

Thea van Diepen

Well, if you feed Catstein, take it out to play, give it water, all that, it’ll grow bigger and stronger. Then it’ll be able to build you a bigger stool, or even a ladder. Or it could build you a rocket pack. Could you imagine how hard it would be to pick that fruit if you didn’t have Catstein here to help you? But there’s something even more important than Catstein. Sure, there’s always going to be things in a

The Importance of Cats and Writing What You Know (Part 2)

Thea van Diepen

It’s the internet. Just go with it. Now, let’s go back to all that stuff you want to write. That is called The Tree of Rad Ideas*. All the fruit? Those are your rad ideas. *No relation whatsoever to The Tree of Knowledge. But it is The Tree of Life’s sister’s aunt’s cousin’s nephew’s mother-in-law’s brother’s great-grandchild’s best friend. Huh. Small world. Just wait for Catstein to come back. It’s not like I tried to be a smart aleck and