This is The Con-Fusion
Welcome to a Network of Inquiry and Expostulation
“When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time.”
Lady Gaga
We talk about!
Adjectives and Adverbs (1) art (1) Author (1) Autos (1) Baking in Quantity (1) BDSM (1) Beautiful Creatures (2) Book (1) Bookworm (1) competition (1) Cookies (1) Coruscation (1) Death (1) Dissimilarities (1) Dramatis Personae (1) emotions (1) enjoy life (1) Epistomology (1) Explanation (1) Haiku (1) Henry Adams (1) Humor (1) In a Goth Mood (1) Inchoherence Has A Shape (1) Interpretation (1) Kitchenaid (1) Laugh (1) Letter B (1) limerick (1) Lively Writing (5) living in the now (1) Love (1) Love songs (1) Lyrics (2) medicine (1) music (2) my shortest poem ever (1) Opinion (1) Passive Voice (1) Poem (1) Poetry (3) Poetry Has a Shape (2) Prose Has a Shape (7) Public Transportation (2) Reading (2) Recipes (2) Regrets (1) Satire (1) Security (1) Sexuality (1) Shoes (1) Simple Pleasures (3) Song Parody (1) Songs (1) So Romantic (2) Spurious Information (1) Story (1) The Fine Art of Whispering (1) Theory (6) Time (1) Timeless (1) Understanding Kink (1) Up To a Point (1) Usernames (1) Webcomix (2) Word choice (5) WordPress Best Practice (1) Writing (2)
These are our Blogs
Thread Upon Threads;
an Artist Weaves His Web
The Dancing Goddesses;
addendum and annotation for the book of that name,
by author Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Finn; Works by transfeminist author and artist Finn Enke
An Esoteric Library; Old books become new epubs
Hendra’s World; an Illustrated novel in progress by Stu Helm
Ronald Smart Writes; stories and memoirs
with a mid-century touch
The Principle of Moments;
a multi-braned, multi-brained, experiment-in-progress.
My Life on a Legal Pad;
A collection of essays in graphic form
Letters To A wild Boar; a webcomic archive
These are our Services;
Share your Story and
read the results on our guest blog
Read Our Stories
A limerick about writing limericks
To write a limerick I triedBut instead of killing, it diedMy rhymes should be like a soarin’ j…
Misusing Words for Fun and Profit
Good writers don’t want to use their words the way other people do.
Three Guys in a Bar
For a story to have what we consider a proper ending, it is not enough for the “real-life” events to…
The Fountain of Youth, El Dorado, and Creative Writing Classes
This last essay was sent to us by the well-known author Aloysius Krumpelwitz, who writes under the p…
Old Wine in New Bottles
To see imagery as mere ornament in a story is like seeing a man’s head as just a pedestal for his bo…
Bad Advice From a Good Writer
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it …
The True Fairy Tale of the Niffum and the Legab
First of all, it happened in another universe, and on the outer fringes of another galaxy, and on an…
Avoid. sentence. fragments
Mr Salter’s side of the conversation was limited to expressions of assent. When Lord Copper wa…