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I have no real content to share for the moment, because I'm doing that writing thing where I'm not supposed to be farting around on the internet too much.

Lucienne Diver from the Knight Agency warns writers who blog to be careful about what they say. Common sense stuff, really, but it probably does bear repeating. I know it can be awfully tempting to treat a blog the same as you would the living room of your house, especially when you feel like the only people reading are your intimate circle of 'net buddies.

Vandana Singh has thoughts about "writing the Other", a continuation of the topic she wrote about in this post. This is important stuff she's talking about. She touches on RaceFail, MammothFail, and some other things.

I think very importantly, she says:

But the "outsider view" shouldn’t exist at the expense of the "insider view" or be given greater weight, or be depicted as the only view.

( why I find this to be really helpful for all writers, but mostly just a big old 'yeah, what she said!' under the cut. )