I haven't been on Mibba in AGES, yo.Not regularly, anyway. I feel I kind of outgrew the site, so I'm more or less cool with that? But I wonder who around here still remembers me, or who around here I still remember.(If anyone would still like to keep up with me, I'm on Tumblr.)((Holy shit, I still remember somewhat how to use BBCode.))Also I wanted to come here because...well, this is primarily a...

So I think I've written the first excerpt to the novel I may or may not write that actually takes place while the character is experiencing another life. I'm toying with this also being the opening to the novel. So if y'all wanna read it and let me know whether this is an opening "chapter" that would interest you, let me know. It's only 210 words:Gray CityI also super want to write something for...

So I put up another excerpt of the novel I may or may not be writing HERE if anyone wants to check it out.On a heavier note, there was a mass stabbing at the mall in my city the other night.Not the city I currently live in, but the one I went to college in, where I lived for seven years. I went to that mall a few times a month for seven years. I've probably been there hundreds of times.No one was...

So uh...that's a thing that may be happening.I've always felt more comfortable in poetry. I love fiction--reading it, that is--but I have no desire (normally) to write it. I've never had ideas I wanted to explore that felt like they couldn't be explored through poetry, so the compulsion to write fiction was never really there. I've tried my hand at it and it was fun, but it was never something...

I'm on vacation right now, technically. But I only have two more days with my in-laws after today, and then on Wednesday at 5am we have to get up to leave for the 14-hour drive back home.And the following day, normal life starts up again. I work a normal 8-hour shift Thursday, then we have to go to my godparents' place to get my cat.After that? 10- to 12-hour shifts, six days a week, for about a...

Hey guys! So, big-ish news. I had a political blog YEARS ago (I'm talking probably 5-6 years ago), and I am booting it up again!For now it's still using its old URL but under a new name, so please check out Not Quite Professionally Political (title still subject to change), and if you like what you see there feel free to share a couple posts with your friends!So far my latest couple posts are ones...

So...I've been having a tough time lately.Mental health has been in the tank.I've spent a lot of time just kind of...in that "everything is pointless, I'm pointless, I'm not good for anything, fuck it" kind of mindset.Had a pretty bad breakdown last night. Wrote a thing about it...sort if?How to Talk Yourself Out of SuicideI can't decide how I feel about it just yet. Maybe it's not particularly...

Opinionated Katie is back and I'm not sure how well this will end.I've been getting into Facebook political debates again. Correcting bullshit where I see it, no matter who it's coming from.So far, I've jumped in on a "Islam is to blame for all acts of terror" debate, a "if guns kill people then cars drive themselves drunk" debate, a "gay people can have something like marriage on a legal level...

So...this has been a pretty painful Pride Month for us.I've written a couple articles about the effects of homophobia that can be found HERE and HERE. Faced some heavy backlash for it, but you know what?For the first time, I am sick enough of this shit that I don't care about backlash.For the first time in YEARS, I am standing up for my community. I have been called so many names in the last two...

So I wanted to share a literally unbelievable exchange I had today.I posted an article today about the part of the tragedy in Orlando this morning that isn't getting talked about enough: The fact that it was a HATE CRIME.The news articles I'm reading focus on how the guy was allegedly a jihadist, but none of them even acknowledge the involvement of homophobia in these attacks. They mention that...

When I was younger, I could separate myself from news stories. I can't anymore.The older I get--and the more I recognize the fact that I am entrenched in a culture which passively dismisses rape and encourages attitudes that lead towards it, and the more I realize how fucked up a lot of the situations I've been in were--the less tolerance I have for it.I mean, even in fiction. I have to leave the...

Last time I posted, it was about how I was giving up on the web site I write for to get "paid." After a few months of writing, I'm not even halfway to reaching the cashout threshold for the first time, and it's starting to feel like it isn't worth it.But at the same time, I really like getting to write whatever I want and at least have a shot at getting paid for it. So I'm sticking around a bit...

Not gonna lie, I'm pretty disillusioned with the blogging endeavor I started a few months ago.It's the one I've been trying to share here pretty regularly. Not my poetry, but the cute little blogs about life and relationships and stuff.I've been contemplating calling it quits on that web site for a while, because I felt like what I was writing just...wasn't fitting in with the web site, for some...

So I've made a couple new PuckerMob posts lately that I...kind of like?A lot of them are more of the personal nature--by which I mean stuff I'm not fully comfortable sharing them to my Facebook fan page because I don't want my family to see them, but I'd still like to share them here.Why I Became a Slut: On understanding one's own sexuality, in a transition from it being an expectation from others...

I still think it's hilarious that the day I decide to open up to Mibba about the issues my relationship has been facing for the last year was the day everyone was talking about what shit people "cheaters" are as part of a blog challenge.I'll say again: I don't for one second think cheaters are inherently bad people. Unpopular opinion, I know.Yesterday I posted a link to my PuckerMob blog titled...

I put up a new poem today and I really fucking like it!I feel kind of "meh" on the third stanza, actually.But I really like the first and fourth stanzas and pretty much like the second!Honest feedback would be super, SUPER appreciated because I love that shit.CLICK HERE TO READ IT!Also I decided to polish off the half bottle of wine in the fridge. On a work night, because fuck the system. I have...

So I logged on after writing a deeply personal article for PuckerMob, and as I went to post it here, I found it's already being hotly discussed: Opinions on cheaters.I guess my article is more about the opinions of people who stay with cheaters. After all, the world thinks cheaters are terrible people. Doesn't that innately mean if you stay with one, you're making a bad choice?So, my two cents...

I have been in such a huge slump lately, Mibba.I'm really out of ideas as to how and where to advertise my writing. I post here, on Tumblr, on my Facebook fan page, on [url=twitter.com/thenewfoshizzle]Twitter[/url]...I'm not on a ton of social media platforms so that's a lot already and I'm really struggling to gain any kind of regular audience.If anyone has suggestions as to places I can go for...

I finished NaPoWriMo. I was very proud.And then, all at once, I was very burnt out, and didn't write anything for two weeks. Or...really do anything else for two weeks, for that matter.I have a lot of reasons why that get pretty complicated, but at least like a third of it boils down to depression being absolutely exhausting.Today, thanks to my husband's encouragement, I finally got some writing...

So I've been trying to write about Target's bathroom policy for a while now. Mostly because people I really care about and respect keep sharing articles about boycotting Target, and it breaks my heart.So what do I do when something is important to me? I write about it. I have a post up at PuckerMob that details my response to the #BoycottTarget trend, backed up by statistics. Feel free to read and...