by KimBoo York | Sep 20, 2016 | Writing
This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016I’ve written over five published books and 1 million words of fanfiction by doing everything “wrong”. I wrote in another post that my writing process is basically a disorganized,...
by KimBoo York | Jul 9, 2013 | Life and all That, Writing
Recently I’ve been talking a lot with several friends and my brother David Abrams about issues relating to vulnerability, self-worth, and what Brene Brown called “whole hearted living.” It’s posed an interesting connection to my Enneagram* personality type, which is a...
by KimBoo York | Jul 17, 2012 | Acafandoming
I was looking a couple of my personal favorite fandoms, and realized that in a lot of ways the set up for the characters is not too far off from a bunch of college friends living in a dorm. Specifically, Stargate Atlantis and Avengers, but this is something I see in a...
by KimBoo York | May 23, 2012 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
As an acafan, one of the more interesting aspects of fandom to me is the migration of communities from one platform to another, and how that affects text. From hard-copy mailing lists to USEnet groups to YahooGroups to customized online forums and such forth, the...
by KimBoo York | Aug 22, 2011 | Information Science, Review, Book
Common as Air by Lewis Hyde (2010). Quote: “Simply put, my project has been to enlarge the set of stories that might usefully guide our thinking about the ownership of art and ideas.” (p. 214) Short form: This is not a legal treatise on copyright law. It...
