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As Claire Fallon writes in her Huffington Post article on the subject, “we have a become a nation of wafflers and avoiders, carefully evading even the most quotidian confrontation.” We don’t want to say “no” because we don’t want to disappoint and by abruptly ending communication we’re only vaguely letting people down.
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Could the problem be that we don’t know how to say “no”? Because we don’t really have to say it now that the fade-away technique is in vogue. Still, at the end of the day, many seem to feel that silence is better than having to deal with conflict. Ghosting comes with its own flavor of moral discomfort, with most ghosters stating that they feel at least a little guilty after the fact. “The only thing worse than being broken up with,” writes author Heidi Priebe, “is realizing that someone didn’t even consider you worth breaking up with.” While ghostees are haunted by an insulting and unsatisfying lack of closure, ghosters aren’t necessarily getting off the hook pain-free. What hurts the most? According to this Thought Catalog article, it’s the indifference. In another less formal survey in Elle Magazine, 46 percent of men and 52 percent of women said they’d been ghosted at some time or other. This is done in the hopes that the ghostee will just ‘get the hint’ and leave the subject alone.” It’s pretty ubiquitous: a YouGov/Huffington Post Poll of 1,000 individuals showed that 11 percent had ghosted others and 13 percent had been ghosted themselves.
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They define ghosting as “the act of suddenly ceasing all communication with someone the subject is dating, but no longer wishes to date. Why is it, in an age where we’re all hyper-connected, we think it’s OK to practice the discourtesy of radio silence? Though it has been recognized as a bona fide word by the likes of The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Elle Magazine and Psychology Today, our best definition for the phenomenon comes from Urban Dictionary. I’ll reveal the whole thing later, but here’s a teaser.Ĭool shots of the rising moon, Jupiter, and Venus in the park tonight.Not interested? Don’t answer their texts, calls, messages … and definitely don’t give them a reason. At least there’s a gorgeous cover (another stunner from Steven Meyer Rassow). I’d hoped/planned to release Sacrifice this fall, but now I’m aiming for a Q1 2020 release. The future of humanity is at stake, and the past holds the key to saving it. Vic’s tale of personal vengeance expands into epic fantasy territory as multiple conflicts break out within and between Knownearth’s human and alien inhabitants. The rewrite requires a lot more changes than I made in the Blade of Amber to Wizard’s Forge rewrite. I’m streamlining the story and fixing plot holes and increasing tension. Like Forge, Sacrifice is a rebooted version of a previously published novel. Writing this book has been tough, or I should really say, rewriting it. As a group we’re still reading our “slush pile”-the 30 books out of 300 assigned to us by founder Mark Lawrence, and I’m excited to discover the hidden gem that will be our group’s finalist. This competition always includes some truly awesome books, of which I’ve reviewed the following from the 2018 batch: This year, I’m participating in the SPFBO as a judge on the Fantasy Faction panel. Alas, Vic’s story fell in the first round, although I thank judge Lynn Williams for her kind words and the opportunity to write a guest post about how the fairy tale “Rapunzel” inspired my dark story of a woman with Stockholm syndrome and her quest for revenge on a planet far from Earth. Last year A Wizard’s Forge was an entry in the gladiatorial ring of the Self-Publishing Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO), a fantasy novel competition sponsored by Mark Lawrence. The usual things that plague writers-life events, heavy workloads, stress, crippling self-doubt-are behind my blog-avoidance behavior, but today is the first day of the rest of my life, so let’s go. The Updateīut for one post in March, this blog has been dead for almost nine months.
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A Wizard’s Forge is one of them-scroll down to the bottom to find it along with other grimdark and dark fantasies.
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This weekend (August 16-20), over 100 SPFBO titles are on sale for only 99 cents! Great titles abound in genres ranging from epic to dark to urban.