The Privilege of Daily Writing (And the Ableism of Prescribing It) Part 1 Once in a while, someone says they can’t write every day, and it isn’t about their raiding guild or their after-dinner drinks or their inability to skip their beauty sleep to get up half an hour early. Once in a while, they…

Surgery Report Let me start by saying I am fine...now. But surgery did not go well.

Just a quick personal/meta update today as I turn around and do fifteen things at once behind the scenes.

Advice So Many Non Monogamous (especially dudes) Need Dudes, if you opened up a monogamous, heterosexual dyad  for all the hot sex in the world you were sure you'd be getting just the MINUTE the ink dried on the agreement, and now she's off having hot dates with people she cares about, and you…

Advice So Many Nonmonogamous (mostly) Dudes Need As a reformed whiner about how hard it is to meet women, please let me assure you that you won't whine your way into anyone's DMs. You. Will. Not. EVER. Do This. Self confidence is hot and this is whatever the opposite of that is. They don't owe you…

Facebook Friday May 1st Once upon a time I realized that the writing I do on my public Facebook page should totally count as work, and so I started bundling the posts up and posting them instead of a fresh post every few Fridays. It made my life easier, but still got up content. The end. (Also, my…

Tarot Read: Will I Find Love? Due to the nature of this post, I will automatically delete any comments on social media of anyone seeking to do the reading themselves based on the picture. You can make comments on the post if you want. Note: Yes or no questions are usually not great for Tarot, so…

The Writer Is Sick This is a job for me, so every once in a while I need to "call in." I spiked a 102 fever on Sunday and even though it had broken by Monday, I felt like I had been run over by a tractor trailer…a few times.

Ten Things All Writers Want but No One Can Give Them (Part 2) It’s way too easy to find someone who will take an industrial-sized leaf blower, fill it with unicorn farts, and blow magical rainbows straight up your ass so that you become distended and rainbows come leaking out all of your mucus…

Ten Things Writers Want But No One Can Give Them (Part 1) In the world of writers, we want a lot of things. But there are things no one can ever give us, things no one ever WILL give us, and things the world may even do its level best to take away from us if we let it. We writers always and…

Fake Geek Girls—Misogyny, Not Elitism I'm a fake geek guy. I like most geek things, but I don't like them enough to delve into the obsession that is a bit of a defining characteristic of the subculture. I watch the main movies or read the main books and call it a day. I can't quote Game of…

Sometimes You Can’t Kill the Author… No Matter How Badly You Want To If you want to try to cite Death of the Author, it helps if they’re actually dead. And J.K. Rowling is a little bit like the toxic mold on her own wall—she’s alive and spreading like rancid musty evil in search of old cheese...…

The Lights Are ON! I had a lot of side gigs last week. I was pet sitting, helping someone who had stuff in their house going back to 1965 to dig out, pack, and load in a trailer so they could move, AND babysitting. I even did a shift at a bakery that stocks events like Dickens Faire and Ren Faire…

Side Gigs and Newsletters Folks, you've probably noticed that I'm absolutely trying to get back to posting more regularly. But maybe you noticed that last week, I didn't get going until Wednesday. That's because I had a side gig passing out fliers that I had to take. You see, where we go from here…

A Good Widdle Pet Peeve Food service and linguistic pet peeves may seem like they have nothing in common, but just stand back and let me work…

We Have Been Here Before Hi, my name is Chris, my pronouns are “they” and “them,” and I’m a pagan priest. Now here, that doesn’t mean much, and out in the world, it means even less. But I work with an Irish deity—one who few have heard of outside of pop-culture misconceptions, and even fewer…

The A to Zen (of a Writer’s Life) Avoid negative people and habits, but don't confuse those who make you feel bad about negative habits for negative people, for those who call shenanigans on your shenanigans are more valuable than gold. Believe in yourself. But don't fall to pretentiousness or…

House/Pet Sitting (Price Guide) The easiest way to get a quote is just to talk to me about your pet(s) and their needs, where you live, and I will just quote a price, but if you want to get an estimate of what the cost will be, add the basic service you want to any additions or discounts that may…

Throwback Thursday (February’s Best from FB) [Once upon a time I wrote Facebook posts for hours a day and then turned around and wrote a blog. Then one day, someone asked me, "Are you counting the hours you spend on Facebook as writing. Because, that's writing." So now I bundle the best of them up…

Writing About Songwriting She’s always in another castle’s dungeon and therefore… Your overalls would look better In a pile on my floor

He Said He Was Gonna It's really shocking to me how many people on both sides think 47 is not going to do just EXACTLY what he says he's going to do. They just keep thinking THEIR water's edge will be HIS water's edge. And it won't.

The Moments We Never Understand Until Too Late When I was pretty young, my grandfather's best friend took eight or nine lowballs of bourbon, my step-brother's bike, and a tree that was minding its own fucking business, and got himself killed—though not before one of those heart-wrenching…

Share My Experience In Real Time—Mission Statement (2 of 3) So I’m over a decade out of a creative writing program* and I carved out my place as a writer, got cancer, had a series of unfortunate events, and am now trying to build the whole thing again. [*I got tired of editing this every year. I…

The Uncompromising Idealist I actually LOVE our uncompromising leftist idealists. They keep me honest, and they keep me focused. I want to do everything to give their idealism expression. They are the ones that call for change, force the mirror up to society, and often spill blood to bring about a…

Writing and Falling (Writers in Love) Ah, love.The sweet caress of twilight. The magic in the air. Mental synchronization so amazing that you finish each other’s… sandwiches. And, of course, that complete torpedo of vasopressin, adrenaline, dopamine, and oxytocin straight to your ability to sit…

The News is a Little EXTRA Tough for Some of Us [CN: Mention of sexual assault. R*pe.] Hi, folks, I think it might be Thursday before you see this officially, but I've been writing it for most of Wednesday while Pam Bondi memes drift up my Facebook feed with a disturbing regularity.

People will do web searches on your name as soon as you are in the public sphere. Make sure they find something worth finding. It was my second-to-last semester when I heard the best advice of my entire writing program…

I didn’t give up writing these last two months. And I haven’t been fighting rabid lemurs. I’ve just been going through a lot. I’ll tell you all about it… Well, okay, I’ll tell you about some of it.

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.