Authorsplaining, as defined by me, is when an author overexplains something to a reader in a totally unnecessary, exaggerated or repetitive manner, as if the reader is too dimwitted to understand and follow the story. And it is as irritating to read as it is to hear in real life.

Nearly once a week (or at least it feels like that often), I hear someone say they are thinking about starting a blog. What I don’t hear is what they plan to blog about. If you’ve decided to take the time to create and maintain a blog, I would assume you have a purpose in mind. However, that assumption has proved to uphold that old saying, which I won’t repeat here. I say this because I’ve noted that a good number of blogs out there appear to have no more purpose than for th

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