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

My uncle died on the night of September 8th.

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.

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/

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/

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???

If there could be said to be any "rules" at all, here are 18 of them coving grammar, risk, revision, and more.

Hi all. This post went viral. That requires some additional behind-the-scenes labor on my part. But it's winding down. Be back in the saddle soon. Got a "Why Polyamory" post that should be ready tomorrow or Friday.

Part of this blog is leaning into a series about being a priest of a pagan practice. About about a goddess I’d never heard of in a pantheon I was unaware of suddenly being in every dream I had.

The very best posts of the last week on my public Facebook profile (and maybe a few from way back or that I just really liked). https://chriscookie.com/2025/05/08/thursday-throwback-the-best-of-the-week-on-facebook/

The Weaponization of Magick in Toxic Positivity A gratitude practice isn't going to polyana someone through chronic illness…injury…systematic injustice….or even just a REALLY bad time in their life.

[Reminder. This "It'll-take-me-a-week" post took me a month, so I'm going to run it for an extra day and give my editor and myself a long weekend. See you Monday.] "What are we supposed to do? We’re citizens, not politicians. We’re not MCU superheroes with sonic eye beams and flaming pee."

What Can We Do? A Hierarchy of 20 Things to Resist Fascism(Part 2 of 3) Continuation of a 20 part article about what regular people can do to stop the rising tide of fascism in the U.S. (or elsewhere).

Well this is what I've been doing for the last month. (It was supposed to take a week.) I tried to answer the question I'm hearing everywhere—and so many are asking ME—of "What can we do?"

There's a new series coming at the Social Justice Bard corner of my blog.

Nine Things for Writers to Let Go Of But magick or not, letting go is important to everyone, so I came up with a list of things to let go for writers.

He Said He Would He showed us exactly who he was nine years ago when he was running. He told us who he wanted to hurt. He told us who he hated and who he was pissed off at. He told us how important it was to hurt them. He revealed his racism over and over again. Then for four years he never…

Introducing Rhapsody Introducing Rhapsody It's overdue, but it's time to introduce you to the latest standing member of the Hall of Rectitude. I present Rhapsody. I moved in with Rhapsody (and her two kids, Treble and Clef) in August of 2021.  Rhapsody doesn't take that much of an active hand in…

We’re doing a lot more than just, “Hey we're over here now!” Here is roughly what we have planned for fusion of the old Blogger-site Writing About Writing with our new and improved The Cookie Crumbles. https://chriscookie.com/2025/04/23/a-glimpse-at-the-plan/

First Post! This is what I've been working on for the last couple of months. As you can see, there is a lot of content my wonderful web-assistant Rhapsody has been moving over so that it's not just a bunch of empty cupboards around here.

I wear the same outfit every day. Black workout clothes I like the new pants for wearing around because the material feels stiff and I like the feel. But for running I like the older ones; they are soft and feel better for running. Anyway, today we’re gonna talk about how I might be autistic .

It is lots of little contributions I couldn't do this without. So I try to make one of my very best rewards the lowest possible tier. Just $3 a month (and you can get a discount if you buy a year's worth at a time). They get news a little ahead of time.

Back at it after resting a strain for a week.

The sooner you realize that most white people are not going to say "I like Republicans because they quietly uphold white supremacy and that benefits me," and instead just mutter something about the economy (even though that's demonstrably untrue), the sooner US politics will start making sense

Tomorrow 7-9. Join us? Are you a practicing pagan? Do you have more Tarot decks than sex toys? If you are non-monogamous, woo, woo, and queer (or two out of three and VERY cool with the third) join us This month we will be back in Oakland and trying out Arthur Mac's Tap and Snack.

We have never been apolitical here at W.A.W. and we're not about to start now. Just because there are still some funny puns out there and we try to keep it about writing here doesn't mean the author isn't yelling at clouds on their own page: Chris Brecheen.

A lot of people are asking when "the moment" is, and I'm not going to say WHAT you should do on a public post, but I'm pretty sure "the moment" is if we invade Canada.

Boy we sure went from the price of eggs dropping on "day one" to "maybe you should buy a chicken" and from "the economy will be the biggest most beautiful economy ever" to "yeah, I'm pretty much going to intentionally cause a recession," REALLY fast, didn't we?

Them: What are you singing? Me: I’m not sure what it’s called. It’s the song that rapey little skunk sings in Looney Tunes all the time. Them: Pepe Le Pew? He’s not…(watching the wheels turn in their head for a good 10 seconds)… Wow that character is really fucking problematic.

I broke up with someone this morning, so I'm not having the best day. It wasn't working, but there were tears and I feel like a bit of a monster.

If you live in the US, you live in a country where a guy who did the Nazi salute is being absolutely cheered on as he usurps power from Congress. You don't live in a country with "a few dark chapters." This is us. We're racist. It's time to own it and start the work of dismantling it.

You live in a country where a guy who did the Nazi salute is being absolutely cheered on as he usurps power from Congress. You don't live in a country with "a few dark chapters." This is us. We're racist. It's time to own it and start the work of dismantling it.

It's not really a coincidence that bigots and abusers are always the ones who insist you reach out to THEM. Gently—OH EVER SO GENTLY OR THEY'LL SPOOK AND YOU'LL MAKE AN ENEMY FOREVER. Do not ever be the slightest bit harsh or you will be labeled far worse, they the victim, and you the true oppressor

Since the exact moment of the Civil Rights Act, white people have generally polled in favor of Democratic positions and economics, yet OVERWHELMINGLY voted Republican. (About 15 points in most elections.) This is not rocket science. It's not just our drunk uncles who are racist.