Category: Random Rants

• Screaming is What We Do Best (As Writers Writing for Nothingness)

  DO YOU EVER FEEL like writing nothing for the sake of nothingness, in a black hole of a vacuum of ideas, pandering and rambling about rambling in pure space and time, because the blank page mocks you into a fury? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, I just want to write, and type, and stumble over words, words…

  Shari Lopatin

  August 13, 2018

  Personal Posts, Random Rants

  art, blogging, creative writing, inspiration, journaling, literature, poetry, reading, wordplay, wordsmithing, Writing

• What it’s Like to Be 2 Millennia Old?

  The following is a guest post from a mysterious writer. You must read until the end to discover the secretive recluse … Everyone has their secrets. Mine is more complicated than most. Sure, I look like a perky twenty-four-year-old with resting bitchy face, but you’d be wrong. At least about the twenty-four-year-old part. I’m actually…

  Shari Lopatin

  August 9, 2018

  For the Writers, Random Rants

  books, Carissa Andrews, cozy mystery, creative writing, fantasy, funny, historical fiction, humor, indie authors, mystery, new books, Oracle, publishing, reading, science fiction, self-publishing, supernatural, Writing

• The Great Goodreads Confession of 2018 (from a Goodreads Author, Nonetheless)

  Let me make a confession: technically, I’ve been a Goodreads member since 2008 or 2009. But I lost my username, password, and old email address. And I couldn’t get back in (can we say “BUMMER?”). I know, I know. For someone who wrote a science fiction dystopia about the future repercussions of a society that’s…

  Shari Lopatin

  August 1, 2018

  For the Writers, Random Rants

  book reviews, books, books worth reading, creative writing, dystopian fiction, Goodreads, humor, indie author, new books, publishing, reading, science fiction, Social media, Writing, young adult books

• If you’re gonna hack a writer’s email, at least be grammatically correct

  So, my email got hacked this week. Yes, my technology shenanigans continue. But in a way, I must publicly thank the hackers, because they gave me some seriously positive publicity. Like making everyone in my network aware of just how QUALITY my work is … which is good, because I recently launched my new business, “Shari’s Ink: Copywriting &…

  Shari Lopatin

  May 3, 2013

  Funny Life Stories, Random Rants

  email, hackers, humor, marketing, technology, Writing, Yahoo! email

• So Apparently, I’m a Hipster? (and so is every other 30-something)

  I’m not quite sure when anything with the word “hip” became associated with ME. But apparently, I’ve been labeled a hipster. Problem is, I’m not really too sure what exactly a “hipster” is. OK, to clarify here, no one sprung out from behind the bushes, pointed a slimy finger at my nose, and screamed, “HIPSTER!”…

  Shari Lopatin

  April 11, 2013

  Random Rants

  hipsters, humor, pop culture, Writing