This blog is not really about anything at all, so those who are easily bored can stop reading now. :)

One of my frustrations with fiction writing is that ALL female warriors seem to be required to be nearly naked. This I do not understand, because anyone with breasts can tell you that the girls need to be aggressively supported and protected for a woman to be much of a warrior at all. Not only do they bounce around, but getting hit on one is a real owwie. It is confusing to me where this prejudice comes from on a site where many of us are professing to be women inside. Hmmm.

Another thing that is a cause of dissatisfaction for me is that while I use Chrome as a browser, its built in spell checker seems dumb, even illiterate. I even checked the box that allows google to help with that, and it is still just dumb, dumb, dumb. Thankfully, if I get frustrated while writing, I can open another window and get into freedictionary and find the word I want and its spelling. I do not even own a paper dictionary, though at the rate that words I like to play with are disappearing, I am thinking I need to go to a used book store and purchase one.

When I was much younger, I always had a dictionary laying along side the book I was reading because those old writers would continuously challenge me. In retrospect, I think that they did me a service in their diligence and improved my intellect. I am saddened that most stories I read now days are written with words that do not exceed six letters in length.

I can now see the wisdom in not living 700 years like Noah. Even now, most people in their twenties look at me as if they were waiting for my soon demise, something in which I will oblige them promptly enough.

Finally, I must make my apologies for what may seem to be a souring of my attitude. I am sure that many of you are good writers, and even the worst of you are probably better than my first scribblings. However, in my old age, I've developed narrowed tastes, almost like trying to get old wrinklies to stop eating steak so much and eat their green leafy vegetables. I'd be sorry to know that I had wounded any fledgling authors. Now days, I've put my damnable bra on more than once and seldom found one that is really comfortable. I always wear skirts, so there is nothing new there, and make up I have learned that it is a lot of work and done to extravagantly, it just makes you look like a washed up stripper. While I think my inner mind would have enjoyed it a bit, my scruples seem to entangle my feet and torment my mind. I do however plan to purchase a bikini but it will be for me alone in my dungeon when the fires of hell are well stoked and the room is over 95 degrees.

Sorry to seem filled with cantankerousness. There are only about a dozen authors that I read now days. The rest of you, I am sure that you will have an audience and that they will feel that you have done marvelous wordsmything.

Feeling my years

Gwendolyn