Friday, June 27, 2025

This Blog

This blog is where I go when I want to comment on any of my stories.  Political commentary and current events go on the 'other side,' Don't Wait for The Movie.  I have two solutions I can think of. 

Move all writing-related blogposts to 'Helen' Blog.  Some of my readers are primarily interested in lesfic, and my comments about my own stories; they could simply head over here, and only visit the other one if there has been some really startling political development.  Language issues, such as punctuation, vocabulary, etc, could all be left on here.  Actually, I'll have to rethink that; it would be sad if only the president's foolishness ever got discussed on that side.  On the this side, I would put any posts about matters such as references to pets, for instance, in any of the stories. 

Compartmentalize the Blog.  I mean, leave the blogs as they are, but have departments in each one; a Current Events department, and LGBTQ department, a Fine Arts department, and Language department, and so on.  Most of that would really happen on the other side, which is sort of a 'Dear Diary' thing, anyway. 

I really don't need to fuss so much about it; but adopting one plan or the other would make it easier to do the actual blogging.  The readership of the Blog is about 25 readers per post, and it isn't clear that every visitor reads the whole post!

I'm going to try a sort of hybrid approach for a while.

Kay Hemlock Bonaventura Brown

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Diabetes

I don't know whether Helen being diagnosed as diabetic (in Helen and Sharon) was a putoff, but I had been diagnosed as a mild diabetic just then, and I just couldn't help going that route in the story. 

The Galactic Voyager story features diabetes more centrally.  But, since my own diabetes was being managed just medically (which means with only pills, in this case), that's how I had Helen's condition also managed, because I didn't know any better.  After a few years, though, any diabetic (as far as I know now) has to go on to Insulin injections.  This didn't happen for Helen, so Helen's further diabetic adventures are a little implausible for anyone who is a diabetic, or who knows one!  Voyager is worth rewriting for that reason, but I'm not going to do it.