Hi folks,
Just a quick reminder that I'm doing my writing over at chriscookie.com these days. Speaking of which I just dropped a monster article about 20 ways to fight fascism. You should come check it out.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
What to Do About Fascism
Thursday, April 24, 2025
New Blog. Who dis?
We've already got some blog posts dropping at our new WordPress site, so let me remind you that you want to head over there.
chriscookie.com
It's called The Cookie Crumbles, and all the writing from Writing about Writing and NOT Writing About Writing is going to end up there.
So come take a look!
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
The New Blog Has Arrived
It's finally here.
https://chriscookie.com/
The new blog has arrived. This will be the first of many pointer posts as we transition over. Come check it out. I'll be posting later today.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Tomorrow!
So you gotta hang on till tomorrow.
Come what may….
Tomorrow tomorrow.
We roll out tomorrow.
It's only a day a-waaaaaaay.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Monday! Monday!! Monday!!!
Monster Blog is unleashed!
Water plus dirt equals MUD!!!!!
Blogasaurus!!! It eats other blogs! (Mostly this one!)
Chill as Chris smashes season two over season one's head. ("Let's do this like Brutus!")
Stick around afterward and hear Smashing Fascists sing their Doom Metal eighties sit-com covers.
HERE♩ WE ARE…FACE TO FACE….♬ A COUPLE OF SILVER SPOONS! **GUITAR RIFF**
Oh also there will be fitness stuff.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
The Cookie Crumbles goes live on Monday!
The blog is moving to WordPress and changing names, largely due to my getting married and taking HER name in a middle finger to patriarchy and marriage traditions that had everything to do with property transfer.
Fear not though. Writing About Writing will live on (although a few characters and series will not be making the move). It will become one part of a much larger blog that will touch on my priesthood to The Morrigan (a pagan Irish deity) general woo woo* stuff, tarot, social justice (I'm a social justice BARD—because of course I am), fitness—including my own adventures running and CPT career, and any stab I make or have made at fiction.
*Salutes* "General Woo Woo"
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Coming on Monday—The Cookie Crumbles
Slick new look.
Amazingly smooth interface (especially compared to Writing About Writing)
Mobile support.
The new blog has SEVERAL topics of which Writing About Writing is only ONE.
All this goodness coming Monday
Monday, April 14, 2025
The Big News is Here (This Blog is Being Retired)
Second, big news. I'm getting married. In a big middle finger to gender roles, I'm going to use my spouse's name, which is Cookie, instead of her taking mine. My legal name will remain the same but my writing and "street" name is about to be Chris Cookie.
Stay tuned for more news about the transition and new blog.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
WATCH THIS SPACE (TOMORROW!)
Peeps. In this petty place from "Away" to YAY!
You've waited. You've wondered. You've bitten your nails to the quick. You've quivered with antici….*
And tomorrow the moment will be here.
Tomorrow I'll tell you what's going on. And ONE WEEK FROM TOMORROW you'll get to see the results.
But in the meantime, a clue….
Crow and weight
Weight of words
Words of fate
Fate beyond
Beyond the word
Words of wisdom
Wise ol bird.
….pation.
Friday, April 11, 2025
THREE MORE DAYS
It's going to change EVERYTHING about this blog.
Three more days until the announcement. Ten more days until the official unveiling.
But I will give you one clue….
Keanu Reeves voice: "Cookies. Lots of cookies."
Thursday, April 10, 2025
FOUR MORE DAYS
Did I say six more days yesterday? (I did.)
Yeah, that's because I'm a math for liberal arts type and I can't count past four. I should have said five more days. Which means today is four more days.
On Monday the 14th, I will announce the big change that is coming. And in ONE week from that day (the 21st) it will be unveiled.
I will give you this one hint though….
The big changes coming to the blog are predicated on BIG changes coming in my personal life. There are cookies involved.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
SIX DAYS TO ANNOUNCEMENT
The sounds of construction you hear are everyone here at Writing About Writing working overtime on a HUGE project and major change to this blog. (And actually to NOT Writing About Writing too.) An offhand comment led to a conversation which led to a plan and we were off to the races. Sometimes inspiration is lightning in a bottle.
It's going to be big, and it's going to be COOL!
In six days, I will tell you what's coming. One week from then, the unveiling will be made public.
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