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Crack Fic

On Being a Shaman, Part II

June 15, 2017 by James Young Leave a Comment

I was surfing YouTube Tannerite videos. (Don’t ask.) In one of them, some farmers were using Tannerite to thin the local wild boar herd. That got me thinking… “Y’all keep laying with that Tannerite, you’re going to cause some messed up stuff! You better quit it!” “What the hell are you talking about? We’re taking […]

Filed Under: Writing Business Tagged With: Crack Fic, Sharing, Writing

A Little Gallows Humor

June 8, 2017 by James Young Leave a Comment

So there was a discussion of World War II on a friend’s FB page.  Specifically, we were discussing the Red Army’s rampage through Eastern Germany in mid-1945.  This, of course, got me thinking about how history has…evolved when discussing certain events.  Perhaps a sliding scale is in order: Young’s Ascending Levels of War Crime Severity […]

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On Being A Shaman

August 18, 2016 by James Young Leave a Comment

So several of my friends accuse me regularly of writing what they call “crack fic.”  Sometimes this is an exercise to shut the muses up temporarily, as there’s a riot going on while I’m trying to edit.  Other times, someone will just throw me a prompt and it’s “Hi yo, Silver, away…”As always, all things […]

Filed Under: Writing Business Tagged With: Crack Fic, Sharing, Writing

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