Well, this was a year, wasn’t it. I’m not going to be terribly disappointed to see it go. Nevertheless, I got some decent writing out of it here on Whatever. Below, in alphabetical order, you’ll find the pieces I find of special note in 2017. Be aware that I tried to keep the pieces kvetching about our current horrible president to a minimum; I want you to be able to get through the pieces without feeling like you want to walk into the sea. Nevertheless these pieces reflect the general “ugh” of the year, because, well. 2017 and all that. You know. You were there.
- 2017, Word Counts and Writing Process
- The Brain Eater
- Can You Tell My Earnings From My Amazon Sales? Spoiler: Nope, Not at All
- Diversity, Appropriation, Canada (and Me)
- Genius and Master
- Getting Lucky With College Costs
- Hamilton, and Thoughts on the Uncanny Valley of Musicals
- Harry Potter and the Initially Dismissive But Ultimately Appreciative Fan
- Harvey Weinstein and Other Abusers
- The Moral Shambles That is Our President
- My Personal Feminism, 2017
- The New Year and the Bend of the Arc
- On That GOP Health Care Bill, and Tax Breaks
- On the Matter of Empathy For Horrible People
- The Poverty “State of Mind”
- Punching Nazis
- A Q&A For the Post-Weinstein Era
- Utopias
- The View From the Top of Amazon’s Heap
- Wonder Woman: A Smash, Possibly in Different Ways Than You Think
And just so everything in this wrapup is not Very Serious Pieces, here’s me and Chuck Wendig and Neil Gaiman and Mikey Neumann and my kid being silly on Twitter. You’re welcome.