Throwback Thursday (February’s Best from FB)
[Once upon a time I wrote Facebook posts for hours a day and then turned around and wrote a blog. Then one day, someone asked me, "Are you counting the hours you spend on Facebook as writing. Because, that's writing." So now I bundle the best of them up…
Writing About Songwriting
She’s always in another castle’s dungeon and therefore… Your overalls would look better In a pile on my floor
He Said He Was Gonna
It's really shocking to me how many people on both sides think 47 is not going to do just EXACTLY what he says he's going to do. They just keep thinking THEIR water's edge will be HIS water's edge. And it won't.
The Moments We Never Understand Until Too Late
When I was pretty young, my grandfather's best friend took eight or nine lowballs of bourbon, my step-brother's bike, and a tree that was minding its own fucking business, and got himself killed—though not before one of those heart-wrenching…
Share My Experience In Real Time—Mission Statement (2 of 3)
So I’m over a decade out of a creative writing program* and I carved out my place as a writer, got cancer, had a series of unfortunate events, and am now trying to build the whole thing again. [*I got tired of editing this every year. I…
The Uncompromising Idealist
I actually LOVE our uncompromising leftist idealists. They keep me honest, and they keep me focused. I want to do everything to give their idealism expression. They are the ones that call for change, force the mirror up to society, and often spill blood to bring about a…
Writing and Falling (Writers in Love)
Ah, love.The sweet caress of twilight. The magic in the air. Mental synchronization so amazing that you finish each other’s… sandwiches. And, of course, that complete torpedo of vasopressin, adrenaline, dopamine, and oxytocin straight to your ability to sit…
The News is a Little EXTRA Tough for Some of Us
[CN: Mention of sexual assault. R*pe.] Hi, folks, I think it might be Thursday before you see this officially, but I've been writing it for most of Wednesday while Pam Bondi memes drift up my Facebook feed with a disturbing regularity.
People will do web searches on your name as soon as you are in the public sphere. Make sure they find something worth finding.
It was my second-to-last semester when I heard the best advice of my entire writing program…
I didn’t give up writing these last two months. And I haven’t been fighting rabid lemurs. I’ve just been going through a lot. I’ll tell you all about it…
Well, okay, I’ll tell you about some of it.
A Word About Unverified Personal Gnosis (UPG)
I’m about to start writing about The Morrigan again as we tick up our content here at The Cookie Crumbles. And I need to add a very special word about Unverified Personal Gnosis.
Folks, I'm sorry it's come to this, but I have no choice. Like most, I can no longer ignore the effects of inflation…
Five Ways Writing Is More Like Driving Than You Think
Driving cars and writing. Totally different things right? Stephen King might be able to compare the process of character based writing to driving in the fog, but there's no way driving could be a ridiculously awesome extended metaphor for…
Democrats are NOT Just As Bad”
“Dems are just as bad,” they say. You’re going to hear this a lot more in the next two years.
On a bit of a polyamory kick lately.
Question: If someone non-monogamous wanted to date a monogamous person, would they consider it? Would YOU consider it?
Short Answer: Not really. Unless you’re asking me out. But then, actually, probably
Coming Soon (The Spirit of Blogust)
Blogust is an idea… a concept. It's not just an actual time. You can have Blogust in September. You can have winter Blogust. What's important is that you hold Blogust close to your heart. —Chris Cookie, probably
Every Day is a Winding Road… And I’m Going Too Fast (Personal Update)
For everything my stepfather was terrible about—and occasionally even abusive he was actually pretty decent at these little Pez-dispenser bits of wisdom.
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One of the refrains I see when fascism rises is that “at least the art will be great.” Like everything else is going to suck for millions, and people are literally going to die, but at least we'll get some good albums and novels…
https://chriscookie.com/2025/09/05/but-the-art-will-be-great-right/
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It’s been a few years, but it’s time to renew a time-honored tradition of perhaps the worst play on words imaginable. (Except for maybe the joke about going to the dentist at 2:30 [tooth-hurty].) What once was a major annual undertaking…
https://chriscookie.com/2025/09/03/blogust-in-september/
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It’s been a few years, but it’s time to renew a time-honored tradition of perhaps the worst play on words imaginable. (Except for maybe the joke about going to the dentist at 2:30 [tooth-hurty].) What once was a major annual undertaking…
https://chriscookie.com/2025/09/03/blogust-in-september/
From taking your meds to threesomes to becoming ungovernable. This is the answer to "What can we do?"
I'm gearing up for "Blogust" but the first posts won't be ready until tomorrow. So in the meantime, here's something that is just getting more and more relevant every day.
Be warned. Political thought ahead. Not for the tenderoni who can't handle issues in their writing memes.
Libraries vs. “Pay Authors”… Wait. WHAT??
Either these people dropping these comments don’t know how libraries work, or they don’t know what a company like Amazon does to make money off the efforts of writers. Fortunately, punching holes in this kind of shit is just exactly my wheelhouse, as long…
The Nine Habits of Highly Effective Writers
These are the brass tacks. The bare bones. The pulsing core of effective writing habits. Not opinions, style guides, prose advice, tricks, individual process, or the exaltation of a past generation’s language and culture, but the things that all…
The A to Zen of The Writer’s Life
A while back, I saw a poster called “A to Zen of Life.” It had “Dalai Lama” written across it in cursive, so I know it was totally legit. (Even though he is also attributed with writing Einstein quotes. Of course, none of them were about writing, so I had to come…
The Cardboard Drawers Will Save Us
I see a lot of writers do this. They fixate on something like their new desk or their ergonomic keyboard, their new writing program that organizes their chapters for them
1-What’s with this blog you post to every day.
That's the whole reason this social media outreach is here at all: to get a few extra eyeballs (and maybe the occasional fan) on that blog…er…this blog. If it weren't for this blog, and the traffic that FB brings here, I would hang up all these puns…
Why polyamory? Isn’t one person enough? Why would you want to do non-monogamy? Is this just a slick way to cheat? Why? But why polyamory? Why this poly thing? Why? Wherefore aren’t thou monogamous? Dost thou have trouble with commitment? What’s with the polyamory thing? Why? WHY???
