2011–2026
1,317 posts
2026 3
July 2026
June 2026
April 2026
2025 3
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February 2025
January 2025
2024 3
September 2024
April 2024
February 2024
2023 4
November 2023
August 2023
July 2023
February 2023
2022 9
December 2022
October 2022
August 2022
- New Fiction: "D.I.Y." at Tor.com
- New Fiction: "Demonic Invasion or Placebo Effect?" at Sunday Morning Transport
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
- "Too Little, Too Little, Too Much" published at Cossmass Infinities
- "The Tentacle and You" at Pseudopod
February 2022
2021 11
December 2021
November 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
March 2021
- "Open House on Haunted Hill" is a Nebula and Locus Awards Finalist!
- "We Are Not Phoenixes" - New Story live at Fireside Fiction!
February 2021
2020 12
December 2020
November 2020
August 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
2019 16
December 2019
- My Favorite Books of the Year, 2019 Edition
- My Top Ten Videogames of the Year for 2019 (and Honorable Mentions)
November 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
- 4th Street Fantasy - Schedule
- Bathroom Monologue: He Totally Watched X
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters Review - Finally, a good American Godzilla
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
2018 32
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
- Reviewing The Mummy, The Mummy, The Mummy, and The Mummy
- The Halloween List: Veronica and... Veronica?
- The Halloween List: The Haunting (1963) and Kwaidan (1964)
- Mental Illness in Horror: My Friend Dahmer & Suicide Club
- The Halloween List: Blumhouse's Halloween (2018), the Best Since John Carpenter's Original
- The Halloween List: Prom Night
- The Halloween List: Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) and Upgrade (2018)
- Horror's History with Violence Against Women, feat. Tragedy Girls, Evil Eye, & What Have You Done to Solange?
- The Halloween List: The Lobster and The Killing of the Sacred Deer
- The Halloween List: Office (Korean), Calibre, & Unfriended: Dark Web
- The Halloween List: Ghoul & Erased
- The Halloween List: Thelma, Annihilation, and The Endless
- The Halloween List: Pyewacket, The Meg, & Hold the Dark
- The Halloween List: Mandy & Slice & Summer of '84
- The Halloween List: A Quiet Place, Emelie, and Hereditary
- The Halloween List for 2018
September 2018
- Never Drown Alone: A Story of The Ring, Friday the 13th, and True Love
- The Expendable Disabled Heroes of Marvel's Infinity War, live at Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
March 2018
January 2018
2017 41
December 2017
- My Best Reads of 2017
- John's Publications in 2017
- "The First Stop Is Always the Last" is live at Flash Fiction Online!
November 2017
October 2017
- The Halloween List: Stranger Things 2!
- The Halloween List: Stephen King's 1922 and Creep 2
- The Halloween List: Sadako Vs. Kayako (AKA: The Ring Vs. The Grudge)
- The Halloween List: Dog Soldiers and Area 51
- The Halloween List: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Bay of Blood, and Blood and Black Lace
- The Halloween List: Final Destination and "Death Note"
- The Halloween List: The Devil's Candy, The Disappointments Room, and Lake Mungo
- The Halloween List: Raw and The Void
- The Halloween List: It Comes at Night and The Autopsy of Jane Doe
- The Halloween List: A Trip to the 70s with Duel, Frenzy, and Picnic at Hanging Rock
- The Halloween List: Killer Dolls! Annabelle: Creation and The Cult of Chucky
- The Halloween List: The Transfiguration and A Dark Song
- The Halloween List: Get Out and Gerald's Game
- The Halloween List Returns
September 2017
August 2017
- Great Things I Read in July and August, 2017 Edition
- Two Story Sales! And more questions for my big RAQ
- Gathering the Rarely Asked Questions of 2017
- Two Publications!
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
- Great Things I've Been Reading, May 2017 Edition
- "Under the Rubble" is live at Pseudopod!
- My True Convention Story That I Wish Was Fiction
- Interviewed about Writing and Disability
- Bathroom Monologue: Magicians and Hacks
- Great Things I've Been Reading, April 2017 Edition
April 2017
- Story Sale: "A Silhouette Against Armageddon" sold to Fireside!
- "The Terrible" Published at Flash Fiction Online
March 2017
- Seven Pieces of Good News!
- Great Things I Read in February, 2017 Edition
- Review: Logan is to Wolverine what the Deadpool movie was to Wade Wilson
February 2017
January 2017
2016 44
December 2016
- Top Ten Videogames of the Year, 2016
- Bathroom Monologue: Reconsider the Lobster
- My Favorite Things in Books, 2016
November 2016
- I Was Reading a Classic Last Night, And...
- "Where I'm From, We Eat Our Parents" is live at Daily Science Fiction!
October 2016
- The Halloween List: We Are Still Here
- The Halloween List: The Green Room (AKA Patrick Stewart?!)
- Under the Skin Vs. It Follows (Vs. Sexuality)
- The Halloween List: The Guest
- The Halloween List: Train to Busan and Flu
- The Halloween List: Creep and The Good Neighbor
- The Halloween List: Shin Godzilla is a Return to the Soul of Kaiju Film
- The Halloween List: Tremors and Bone Tomahawk
- The Halloween List: Pontypool and Southbound
- The Halloween List: Attack of The The
- The Halloween List
September 2016
August 2016
- Three Pieces of Good News!
- Guest Post by Erica L. Satifka: Beyond the Symptoms
- John's Worldcon Schedule
- Great Things I Read in July, 2016 Edition
June 2016
- Great Things I Read in June, 2016 Edition
- Guest Post: Funny Thing by Curtis Chen
- Bathroom Monologue: What If Captain America Isn't Alone?
- John’s Convention Schedule
- Great Things I Read in May (2016)
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
- Great Things I Read in March
- Stop Calling Fiction a Lie
- Kryptonite or Bad Writing: What's Superman's Real Weakness?
- Crediting the Idea Factory
- Guest Post: Great and Terrible - 8 under-used, seriously scary monsters
- Great Things I Read in February
February 2016
- Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards 2015
- "Foreign Tongues" sold to Flash Fiction Online
- Should Obama Replace Scalia?
- Great Things I've Been Reading (December/January Combo Edition)
January 2016
2015 44
December 2015
- BestReads2015: My Favorite Books I Read in 2015
- Christmas Eve Puzzle: Guess the Book!
- My Mom's Six Reactions to Seeing Star Wars for the First Time
- #BestReads2015 Is Coming
- KILL ME Props: Twitter, Jessica Jones, and a Thursday with Chronic Pain and Depression
- Great Things I Read in November
November 2015
- Giving Thanks for Blood Banks and Balloon Malfunctions
- "Making Her" in the inaugural Charleston Anvil
- Your Daredevil Fanfic Minute
- Ten Times When It's Okay to Say "Merry Christmas"
- True Events
- "The Terrible" is live at Daily Science Fiction
October 2015
- Cool things I read in October
- 29 things a character might do at the end of a scene rather than faint (with affection, for Arkady Martine)
- Short Story Publications, and a Bonus!
- Eleven Horror Stories with Happy Endings (Obviously, SPOILERS)
- Counting with George (Non-Fiction Fantasy)
- Carrie Bailey on Struggling with Disability in Life and Fiction
September 2015
- "Bones at the Door" is out in the new Fireside Fiction
- The Rarely Asked Questions of 2015
- Civil War Draft: How the Sides of Captain America: Civil War Were Decided
August 2015
July 2015
- A Pain in the Neck
- Life Finds a Way: Jurassic Park's Obsession With Bad Parents (Spoilers for the series)
June 2015
May 2015
- The Pain of Special Needs in Mad Max: Fury Road (Some Spoilers)
- My 2015 Convention Schedule
- The Siren Call - #fridayflash
- Guest Post: Peter Newman on Turning The Vagrant from Serial to Novel
- Sold Two Stories!
April 2015
March 2015
- Bathroom Monologue: Real Ouija
- The Color Purple: I can't read it, but I can hear it - #NaNoReMo
- #NaNoReMo - National Novel Reading Month
February 2015
- Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards 2014
- A Day Late, A Demon Short
- Something Physical Books Can't Do
- You Will Never Be My Friend (Request)
January 2015
2014 75
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
- Jaws is Not a Halloween Movie
- Why Are Zombie Stories Always Disasters?
- Couple of Horrors - #fridayflash
- "Wet" sold to Urban Fantasy Magazine
- Nuke ‘Em: Pacific Rim's Problem with Kaiju Heritage
- How Do You Segregate Fantasy and Horror?
September 2014
- Don't Write This: Fiction in Danger Zones
- Bathroom Monologue: End of the World Sale
- This House That Hunts Vampires For You
- The Last Murder Mystery You'll Ever Need
- The Shame of Flash Thompson
- Happy Birthday: In Defense of the Worst Year of My Adult Life
August 2014
July 2014
- I haven’t read most of the great books, or, Doing the Diligence
- Three Positive Things in Three Days, and Cheating
- The ideas we discard are not wasted
- Readercon Wrap Up
- ReaderCon 2014
- The Purgatory of Illness (and Jokes)
June 2014
May 2014
- X-Men: Days of Future Past - My favorite superhero movie in years
- My Writing Process Blog Hop
- Godzilla Review: Spoiler-free, except for one
- Waiting for God(zilla)
- In the Nature of Scorpions and Tortoises - #fridayflash
- The (Unexpected) Brilliant Writing in The Raid 2
- You Aren't - #fridayflash
April 2014
- An Open Letter to Wolverine and Archie (RIP)
- What Victims Watch - #fridayflash
- Bathroom Monologue: Twenty-One Fantasy Countries Made From Scratch
- Everyone's Angry About the Hugos
- Five Phases of Tragedy - #fridayflash
- Faking Disability - #fridayflash
- John Adapts to Having a Cat
- The Nigh-Infinite Serpent - #fridayflash
- Waiting for Godot Review
March 2014
- #NaNoReMo Wrap-Up
- Talk to Villains - #fridayflash
- Bathroom Monologue: Revenge
- Closing in on The Master and Margarita - #NaNoReMo
- The Perfect Song - #fridayflash
- Rough Draft Done Two Days Early, Let's Go Read Books
- 7 Chapters in 5 Days
- They All Fall - #fridayflash
- Mum At the Final Act
- Phallus for the Sky - #fridayflash
- White Knighting
- Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards 2013
- #NaNoReMo Round-Up
February 2014
- Rest and Repel Those Aliens - #fridayflash
- What Recharges Writing?
- The Last Cat on Earth
- March is #NaNoReMo – Help me pick my book!
- Bathroom Monologue: Hollow Tree
- At 130
- It's been a while since I've won a Liebster
- He Put the Ten Commandments in the State Capitol, and you won’t believe what happened next!
- Bronchitis and Guilt
January 2014
- Finding Buddha in the Road - #fridayflash
- Why John Should Die On Your Next SciFi Expedition
- Bathroom Monologue: Twenty Years
- Bad Good Habits
- The Post-Net Neutrality Dystopia [NSFW]
- Manly?: Examining Paul S. Kemp's Criteria for "Masculine" Characters
- Writing a Lot and Reading Nothing
- Very Superstitious
- There Is No Generation X
- Lit Corner: Embarking on the Next Novel
- He'll Be Back
2013 287
December 2013
- Best Reads 2013 is Live
- Humanity and Emmanuel
- Christmas Word Puzzle: What is this book?
- #bestreads2013 - Favorite Short Stories and Essays Edition
- Lists of Other Magi
- Lit Corner: Where John's Been
- The Judgment of Claus
- Beorn in the U.S.A.
- Dad's Phases
- Kicking off #BestReads2013
- Great Ways to Fail the Bechdel Test
November 2013
- Thankful for Ghosts
- 10 Insights From A Fan Who'd Never Seen Evangelion Before
- Girl of Steel w/ Magnet
- Hydra-Electric Plant
- The 4 Ways Marvel Really Got Thor Wrong
- It's :EL
- "Why Fantasy?" My answer, and asking yours.
- 13 Ways to Get Out of a Fantasy Army Without Deserting
- Bathroom Monologue: Telling Dad
- Bats, Dollars and Freezing Children
- #NaNoWriMo Fails
- There Is No Greater Context to this Story
October 2013
- Bathroom Monologue: Black Cat Monologue
- True Stories of John: The Prison Transport
- It's Incorporeal Vengeance Week!
- Halloween Calendar.
- Viable Paradise 17
- Bathroom Monologue: The Moon from Lionhead Lane
- Two-Punch Pitches (as many as John can write before he passes out)
- Poltergeist Leak, OR, To Each, Another
- Where John is Going for a Week
- Bathroom Monologue: Apocalypses Like Me
- Horror Writers Donating Blood
- “Apparently there's a Narcoleptic Vampires series...” – Colin F. Barnes
- Bathroom Monologue: The Cutting Edge of Football
September 2013
- Bathroom Monologue: You Didn't Have to Elope
- Bathroom Monologue: The Head Case
- Where John Went
- The Canterbury Deaths
- Bathroom Monologue: Why do you own so many pillows?
- The Best of Beta Reading
- Bathroom Monologue: Anatomy of a Theft
- Why I Didn't Care About 9/11
- Bathroom Monologue: Oxytocin & Oxycontin
- WorldCon Recap: Special Needs and Accessibility
- Bathroom Monologue: How Jay Processes Grief
- WorldCon Recap, Day 1
- RAQ 2013: The Rarely Asked Questions
August 2013
- Bathroom Monologue: Rorschark Attack
- Off the WorldCon! Join me?
- Bathroom Monologue: Coldblooded Body Image Redux
- Do Readers Actually Want Character Development?
- The Succubus Argument
- Request for Rare Questions
- Updated Less Than Daily.
- Bathroom Monologue: The Giant and the Mediocre Kisser
- Book Review: River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Otakon Photo Journal
- Bathroom Monologue: Never Forget How to be Alone
- Bathroom Monologue: The iBelieve
- Bathroom Monologue: 7 Ways Writing a Book is Not Like Raising a Child
- Bathroom Monologue: Leave the Silver Bullets
- Bathroom Monologue: The Worthy
- Lit Corner: Hemingway, Terminator, and Why I Love Twitter
- Bathroom Monologue: And now, The News
- BM: Was Lincoln's Depression the Fuel for Greatness?
- Bathroom Monologue: A Narrative in Skin
- Bathroom Monologue: At Our Best
- Bathroom Monologue: You shouldn't watch those kinds of movies.
- True Stories of John: The Devil Interrupts a Horror Movie
- Lit Corner: My Contribution to the Tree of Life/Branching Out Story and a Contest!
- Bathroom Monologue: Character Sheet for Nigel Poshington
- Bathroom Monologue: The Problem with Free Speech
- Fundraiser in Memorial of Amanda
July 2013
- Bathroom Monologue: For Seven August Heavens
- BM: Who would win: Superman or Batman?
- Bathroom Monologue: Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
- Nine Times I Got an Author's Gender Wrong
- Bathroom Monologue: Playing Pool
- Bathroom Monologue: The Catch
- Why I tried writing a Wonder Woman movie no one will make.
- Wonder Woman Movie Outline - Written in 30 minutes.
- Happy Urban Legend 5: The Call is Coming From Inside the House
- Bathroom Monologue: War Reporter with a Night Light
- Lit Corner: What J.K. Rowling's Pen Name Means
- Bathroom Monologue: Go to Hell
- Bathroom Monologue: Death Becomes They
- Bathroom Monologue: Rescuing Pacific Rim
- ReaderCon 2013 Recap
- Bathroom Monologue: Big Brother and his Faithful Five
- Bathroom Monologue: Punctuation Remarks
- The Last Eight Books I Abandoned and The Psychology of Abandonment
- ReaderCon and the River of Stars Invitation
- Bathroom Monologue: Shredded Viagra for Andreas Sundgren
- Bathroom Monologue: The Shoemaker's Profits
- Bathroom Monologue: Dear Skeletor
- The Perfect Crime
- Happy Urban Legend 4: Alligators in the Sewer
- Lit Corner: Remembering Matheson By Reading *What Dreams May Come*
- Bathroom Monologue: Does sex change how you feel about someone?
- Bathroom Monologue: Frankenstein's Monsters
- Independence Day and Helping Those in Need
- Bathroom Monologue: Mother-in-Law Vs. Mother of her Granddaughter Redux
- Happy Urban Legend 3: The Killer in the Backseat
- John accepted to Viable Paradise!
June 2013
- Lit Corner: John Vs. Don Quixote
- Bathroom Monologue: Biograffiti
- Bathroom Monologue: Ghost Culture
- Super Sweet Blogging Award
- Bathroom Monologue: Cleaning for the Mob
- Who's Richard Matheson? He Was Legend.
- Happy Urban Legend 2: Chain Letters
- Lit Corner: Google Reader Retires, What Can Replace It?
- Bathroom Monologue: Bald Propaganda
- Bathroom Monologue: Fuzzy Kind of View
- Bathroom Monologue: Zombie Parakeets for Adriana
- Bathroom List: 16 Things That Are Not True About Salvador Dali
- Bathroom Monologue: The Produceds
- Bathroom Monologue: Happy Urban Legends
- Lit Corner: Three Things Every Scene Needs
- Man of Steel Podcast and Woman of Steel Fundraiser
- Bathroom Monologue: No More Starlight
- Bathroom Monologue: Superman has no weaknesses except…
- Bathroom Monologue: Wolfman Op-Ed
- True Stories of John: Tree Gunner
- Bathroom Monologue: Werewolves on the Moon
- What I'm Learning from Beta Reading
- Bathroom List: Seven Reasons Why Chess is Not Like Politics
- Bathroom Monologue: Infestation of Nightmares
- Bathroom Monologue: I'm Weak
- Five Reasons I’m Glad I Joined Reddit
- Bathroom Monologue: LIVE from the Shoe
- Bathroom Monologue: The Congressman Sleeps in a Coffin
- John wins the "Sunshine Award"!
- Emma Newman's Any Other Name and Scavenger Hunt!
May 2013
- Bathroom Monologue: Strange Drugs
- Bathroom Monologue: Christopher Lee is Not Dead
- Bathroom Monologue: Three Laws Concerning Children
- Writing for Millions
- Bathroom Monologue: Sweet Potato Revolution
- 12 Questions for SF/F/H Readers
- Bathroom Monologue: Thinking over what to say when Mom says she wants to date again, Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Anton and Anton
- No E-Book of Joyland, and Shut Up About It
- Bathroom Monologue: Refugee Camp Regrets, Redux
- After Three Years, John Finally Goes Book Shopping Again
- "This is a bathtub-in-the-kitchen apartment, right?” –Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Consumed Podcast 17: Star Trek Into Darkness
- Bathroom Monologue: Regarding Submissions
- Bathroom Monologue: Do Not Hug the Golem
- Very Inspirational Blogger Award 2013
- Bathroom Monologue: I'm Your Boyfriend from the Future
- Monologue for a male theologian who is somehow hired to do the commencement speech for an all-girls college
- Bathroom Monologue: "Why can't the computer just take the novel out of my brain instead of me having to write it?" –Anonymous Friend
- Mother's Day Redux: In the Car Wash
- Bathroom Monologue: Comfort is a Tricky Thing
- Bathroom Monologue: Suspect
- Bathroom List: 6 Unused Gun Arguments
- Interview with author Emma Newman
- Bathroom Monologue: Mercy, Kind of Mind
- Bathroom Monologue: Djinn Deals
- I Won Two More Liebsters!
- Bathroom Monologue: What were they building?
- Bathroom Monologue: Message for Mona Liddel
- Reflections Post for the A-to-Z Challenge
- Bathroom Monologue: 6 Simple Health Tips for Writers
April 2013
- ‘Z’ is for ‘The Z,’ the world’s only zombie reservation.
- ‘Y’ is for ‘Yegg.’
- Close to the Close
- ‘X’ is for ‘Xenophobia.'
- ‘W’ is for ‘Armed Conflict,’ or, ‘Escalating Hostilities,’ or, ‘Police Action.’
- 'V' is for 'Vampires,' their dynasty and apocalypse.
- 'U' is for 'The Uncanny Valley.' You probably saw this coming.
- 'T' is for 'Timeline,' dedicated to Richard Bon.
- 'S' is for 'Sauropods.'
- My Foot Stopped Working: Nothing I Can Do, and, The End of Blogging
- 'R' is for 'The Red Brigade.'
- ‘Q’ is for ‘Question,’ OR, The First Apocalypse
- ‘P’ is for ‘People.’
- ‘O’ is for ‘Optimism.’
- 'N' is for 'Names.'
- 'M' is for Automaton 'Mammoths'
- Sunday is for Empire of Gold and Jade
- 'L' is for 'Lonely Giant.'
- ‘K’ is for ‘Ky,’ OR, Splendid Master in Hiding
- ‘J’ is for ‘Jangs the Sphere.’
- 'I' is for 'Imps'
- ‘H’ is for ‘Humans.’
- ‘G’ is for ‘Golems.’
- Waiting for a Day of Rest
- ‘F’ is for the ‘Frontier.’
- Bathroom Monologue: Birth of the Human Age, OR, 'E' is for 'Empire of Gold and Jade.'
- ‘D’ is for ‘Drones.’
- ‘C’ is for ‘Cartography.’
- ‘B’ is for ‘Bacteria.’
- 'A' is for 'Apocalypses.'
March 2013
- A-to-Z Challenge Prep
- Bathroom Monologue: Dialogue on Drunkenness
- The Only Thing Worse is the Cure, Finale
- Neuropathy, a Stroke, and While I'll Be Gone for a While
- Bathroom Monologue: Guilty, Not Guilty
- Bathoom Monologue: Slasher Parody
- A-to-Z Challenge?
- Interview with Chandler Klang Smith
- Challenge: How Many Books Can You Hold?
- The Only Thing Worse is the Cure, Part 6 of 7
- Bathroom Monologue: Do Not Call
- Bathroom Monologue: Eulogical
- Bathroom Monologue: God of ____, Redux
- Happy Birthday Danni! John narrates Pride & Prejudice
- Bathroom Monologue: Give Me Your Daughter
- Bathroom Poetry: Progress
- The Only Thing Worse is the Cure, Part 5
- Bathroom Monologue: Homeless Magician
- Bathroom Haiku: Lot Gulls
- My Foot Stopped Working: Needles in My Legs
- Bathroom Monologue: “Nothing to write home about”
- Bathroom Monologue: Ninja in the Chapel
- Bathroom Monologue: No Such Thing as Sex-Positive
- The Only Thing Worse is the Cure, Part 4
- Audio: Excerpt from "Dracula"
- What Makes You Like a Protagonist?
- Bathroom Monologue: 992 + 992 = ?
- Bathroom Monologue: What would she do without me?
- Happy Endings and the Nonsense of Realism, Revisited
- Bathroom Monologue: The Failure of Math
- The Only Thing Worse is the Cure, Part 3
February 2013
- #NaNoReMo Ends
- 23 Things I Won’t Miss After the Apocalypse
- My Foot Stopped Working: Neurology Wants to See You
- Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards, 2012
- [Graph] How I feel reading the end of a series
- Bathroom Monologue: Why People Get Sick In Winter
- Bathroom Monologue: What Now Was Inland
- Bathroom Monologue: “Those who can’t do, teach.” -Anonymous
- My Foot Stopped Working: What Chronic Pain Is Like
- Bathroom Monologue: 5 Failed Dating Tips from a Super-Rich Friend
- Bathroom Monologue: Toothpick Man
- #NaNoReMo Update #3 – Almost Done
- Bathroom Monologue: The Optimist in Hell
- Bathroom Monologue: She'll Come Around, Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Imperfect Couple
- Bathroom Monologue: Immigration
- Bathroom Monologue: The Diet Scam
- Bathroom Monologue: What Is Your Reason For Going Back In Time?
- Middlemarch Character Guide, #NaNoReMo Update #2
- Bathroom Monologue: Thief Stranded in Virginia
- Bathroom Monologue: Riverbrook Station, Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Edgiest Hero
- Consumed #16: Borderlands 2, Tig Notaro, Homestuck & More
- Bathroom Monologue: Jared Diamond in the Rough
- #NaNoReMo Update #1
- Liebster Award, Take Two (Thanks Katherine!)
- Bathroom Monologue: My Kirk/Picard Slash Fiction (Dedicated to Shelly)
- The Only Thing Worse is the Cure, Part 2
January 2013
- Bathroom Monologue: Investing in Tomorrows
- Bathroom Monologue: Flag Life
- Bathroom Monologue: Powers of Detection
- My Foot Stopped Working: Grossly Normal
- #NaNoReMo Megapost
- Bathroom Monologue: Editing Better
- Bathroom Monologue: Heat of This Sun
- Bathroom Monologue: An Ode to the Towel
- Last House in the Sky is Done & Next Big Thing Award
- Too Many Humans in Fantasy Novels?
- My Foot Stopped Working: MRI Day
- Bathroom Monologue: Debt Game
- 7 Lines from Last House in the Sky
- Bathroom Monologue: The Sea in Which the Most Men Have Died
- Bathroom Monologue: Zine Works Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Retweet This
- Bathroom Monologue: Virtues Bug, OR, It’s What’s Inside That Counts
- Bathroom Monologue: I Deserve a Say
- Bathroom Monologue: Atheist’s Prayer Equivalent
- Why I write daily, at FFDO
- Bathroom Monologue: Tell Me About Her
- Bathroom Monologue: Gifts of Spartans and Concubines
- Bathroom Monologue: The Culture Machine, OR, The Five Star Scheme
- Bathroom Monologue: “But when we look around us at the state of literacy – and in particular at all those signs for “BOBS’ MOTORS”….” –Lynn Truss, “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”
- My Foot Stopped Working
- Bathroom Monologue: Paper Vs. E-Books
- #NaNoReMo: National Novel Reading Month
- Bathroom Monologue: The Only Thing Worse Is the Cure
- Consumed Podcast #14 is Live: Locke Lamora, Jo Walton, Battlestar Galactica, more
- Bathroom Monologue: Pigpun
- Bathroom Monologue: In Defense of Looper
2012 366
December 2012
- 100,000 Hits
- 10 Things I Learned About How I Read the Internet in 2012
- Why I'm On Facebook
- Bathroom Monologue: The Original Tuesday
- Bathroom Monologue: I hope my death inconveniences people.
- #BestReads2012
- Book Reveal: David's Christmas Present
- Can You Figure Out What's In This Present?
- I won a Liebster Award!
- On the Twelfth Day of Christmas (At War)
- Bathroom Monologue: A Necessary Getaway
- Bathroom Monologue: The Sleeping Beauty Incident
- 10 Elements of Reality Not Allowed in Fiction
- Consumed Podcast 14: The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey
- Bathroom Monologue: Mr. Mines
- Bathroom Monologue: “Love is in the air.” –Anonymous
- Bathroom Monologue: Last Isle of Civility
- Bathroom Monologue: Evidence of a Dream
- Chart: Page Lengths of Didactic Books Vs. Whether I'll Read Them
- Bathroom Monologue: When I Read Historical Fiction
- Come Join #bestreads2012
- Bathroom Monologue: Costume App
- Bathroom Monologue: She Danced
- Bathroom Monologue: Bathroom break in the middle of the X-Files pilot episode
- Bathroom Monologue: He/She
- Bathroom Monologue: Unidentified
- Very Inspirational Award
- Bathroom Monologue: Tears For Wishes
- True Stories of John: Social Neurosis and Tony Noland
- Holiday Cards for Recovering Veterans
- #Nanowrimo Fails
November 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: Exorcising Mother
- Bathroom Monologue: Decent Proposal
- Bathroom Monologue: Author Opportunist
- Bathroom Monologue: 6 Badass Revolutionary War Alternate Histories Nobody Uses
- Bathroom Monologue: What ‘Earth’ Means Abroad, OR, Monologue for Sinestro
- Interview: Anna Harte and Above Ground
- Consumed Podcast #13: Wreck It Ralph and Games Bonanza
- Bathroom Monologue: Inhabitants of the Uninhabitable
- Give Thanks – Will Is Okay!
- Bathroom Monologue: Caller Id, Redux
- Bathroom Haiku: Evil Dentists in Love
- True Stories of John: Hiding a Birthday Present
- Bathroom Monologue: Star Wars Episode VII - Genocide of Ewoks
- Bathroom Monologue: Axis of Feminism, Axis of Decency
- Bathroom Monologue: Computer Education
- Bathroom Monologue: Wreck-It Ralph 2 - Exit to DOS
- Mind Meld on SF Signal Today
- The Next Big Thing Blog Award (x3?)
- Bathroom Monologue: The Godzilla Moment at Niagara Falls
- Bathroom Monologue: Treat Our Troops Better Than Sports Stars
- Bathroom Monologue: Anonymoose
- Bathroom Monologue: Engendered
- Bathroom Monologue: Wholesale Magic Carpets
- Bathroom Monologue: Losing Politics
- Bathroom Monologue: The Arm's Rallying Cry
- Bathroom Monologue: My Uncanny Powers of Menstruation
- Bathroom Monologue: Monologue of father talking daughter out of suicide
- Bathroom Monologue: “How do you put out a fire with a can of gasoline?” –a friend
- Bathroom Monologue: So Open, He’s Inaccessible
- Consumed Podcast: Horror Edition
October 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: Devil Gone Missing, Redux
- The Books That Scared Us
- Bathroom Monologue: Hole of Evil
- Bathroom Monologue: The Dark Man, Interrupted
- Bathroom Monologue: The God of Suicide
- Bathroom Monologue: Herman Crab, Zombie Shield
- Bathroom Monologue: The End Times Are Over
- Bathroom Monologue: On Compensation
- Bathroom Monologue: The Other Place Sam Went, Redux
- Consumed Presents: Paranormal Activity 4
- Bathroom List: 8 Things Hollywood Can No Longer Make Creepy
- Bathroom Monologue: Empire Logic
- Bathroom Monologue: The Infection World
- What Stories Scared You?
- Goodbye, Grandpa - Scattered Look at a Life
- Bathroom Monologue: Like a Silver Bullet?
- How I Wrote My Novel - (The Last House in the Sky)
- Bathroom Monologue: Saturday the 13th
- Bathroom Monologue: Cleansing
- Bathroom Monologue: One Vampire Allowed
- True Story of John: A Haunting?
- Bathroom Monologue: Boy of Steel
- 26 Story Ideas - Part 3/3, The End!
- 26 Story Ideas - Part 2/3
- 26 Story Ideas - Part 1/3
- Bathroom Monologue: Year of the Inkanyamba
- Bathroom Monologue: The Presidential Dance
- Books That Shaped How We Saw Fiction
- Bathroom Monologue: Bridge of Nowhere
- Bathroom Monologue: Which Nightmares Have Been True?
September 2012
- J.K. Rowling Is Not Your Bitch
- Bathroom Monologue: Merlin, Gandalf and Dumbledore (Redux)
- Bathroom Monologue: Tripping Brachiosaurs
- Bathroom Monologue: Conjugations of Blaze
- Bathroom Monologue: The Restless Dead
- "The Last House in the Sky" Done at 92,000 Words
- Bathroom Monologue: Nine Pointers to My Younger Self About Love
- Bathroom Diagram: Why Sharks Are Perfect
- Bathroom Monologue: Necroromancer, OR, Deathly Romantic
- Bathroom Monologue: Executed
- Bathroom Monologue: Death to Rainbow Heathens
- Books That Changed How You Saw Fiction
- Please Don’t Be This Artist
- Bathroom Monologue: Grandpa Defends Tolkien
- Bathroom Monologue: Round One, OR, Amateur Boxing Advice
- Dark Knight Rises Podcast
- Bathroom Monologue: South Korea Bans/Teaches Evolution
- Bonus: "A Worrisome Return" by Emma Newman
- Bathroom Monologue: This Heavy World
- Saturn, Disability, and the Hugo Awards at ChiCon 7 - The Wrap-Up
- Reading and Writing at ChiCon 7
- The Panels of ChiCon 7
- Bathroom Monologue: To Serve a SciFi Nerd
- Bathroom Monologue: Kick a Child, Save a Life
- Bathroom Monologue: The Segregation of the Best Man
- Bathroom Monologue: Life is Backgammon
- Bathroom Monologue: Never Okay
- My Big R.A.Q. 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: Praise for Lindsay Cavanash’s New Novel
- Bathroom Monologue: Sleep in Your Mother
- Bathroom Monologue: At 29
August 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: The Newcomer
- Bathroom Monologue: The Tepid War
- Bathroom Monologue: New Department Signage
- Bathroom Monologue: The Newsroom Day Two of Two: The Support
- Bathroom Monologue: The Newsroom Day One of Two: The Attack
- Notice: Newsroom Monologues Coming
- True Story of John: Eulogy for the worst person I’ve ever met
- Bathroom Monologue: I Love American Writers
- Bathroom Monologue: A Son of Rape
- Bathroom Monologue: Gyration Narration
- Request for Rare Questions
- Bathroom Monologue: Abusive Alcoholic
- Bathroom Monologue: Imp and Triclops – A Love Story
- Better Responses to Terrorism
- Bathroom Monologue: A brief autobiography.
- Bathroom Monologue: Zhanjee Vs. The Dactyls
- Bathroom Monologue: The Descent of Magic
- Bathroom Monologue 2000: A True Story of What Makes John Tick
- Bathroom Monologue: Paul Ryan Worked At McDonald’s
- Bathroom Monologue: Be Another Yourself
- First look inside The Last House in the Sky
- Bathroom Monologue: "Mech Fighting" Added to Olympics
- Bathroom Monologue: Glass Slipper Fetish
- August Writing Goals and Updates
- Bathroom Monologue: Hero Out of Context
- Every Sport is Derived From Tennis
- John at Otakon 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: Don't Smile
- Bathroom Monologue: Too Big To Swim
- Bathroom Monologue: Alternative Abstinence Argument, Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: To No One Real
July 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: Steak the Vampires, Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Real News
- Bathroom Monologue: The Severe Lady, Mahut-Ky
- Bathroom Monologue: Will Kill
- Bathroom Monologue: Loving Cannibals
- Bathroom Monologue: Tug on That Cape, Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: A Chance in Hades
- The Most Despicable Antagonists in Fiction
- True Story of John: YA Fiction Versus Real Young Adults
- Bathroom Monologue: Set your hair on fire
- Bathroom Monologue: John is Not a Shark
- Bathroom Monologue: Missing: one short-haired cat burglar
- Bathroom Monologue: Mana From Heaven
- Consumed: Walter Lewin, R. Scott Bakker, and Saint's Row The Third
- Who is the most despicable antagonist in fiction?
- True Stories of John: Grandma's 95th Birthday
- Bathroom Monologue: Revenge of Pigs
- Bathroom Monologue: Blatant Sports Night Riff
- Bathroom Monologue: Regret the Right Thing
- Bathroom Monologue: Perfect Ruin
- Bathroom Monologue: His Damned Niece
- Bathroom Monologue: TiMechanics Repitch
- Consumed 8: Skyrim, Dark Souls, Secret of Kells &
- Bathroom Monologue: Spider-Manologue
- Bathroom Monologue: Friendly Exchange
- Bathroom Monologue: The Tower of Babble
- Bathroom Monologue: Who Reads Anymore?
- Mother Nature Vs. Illegal Immigration: Deporting Humanity
- Bathroom Monologue: Designer Genes, Redux
- Gearing For ChiCon Workshops
- Conservatives Moving to Canada, and Other Wastes of Your Time
June 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: Shadow of the Valley of Death, Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: The Wedding Volleys
- Bathroom Monologue: SmartShop Shoppers
- Bathroom Monologue: Opposing Truth, OR, “Can you do a monologue attacking the truth?”
- Bathroom Monologue: My Zombie Apocalypse Team (see if you can spot the theme)
- Consumed Episode 7: Legend of Korra, Diablo 3
- Update on Will Corcoran’s Liver Surgery Campaign
- BM: “If you could change your fate, would you?” -Merida, Brave’s ad campaign
- Bathroom Monologue: Automaton Logic
- "On the Deathbed of Carl Rudolph" at Metro Fiction
- Bathroom Haiku: Ningen
- Emergency: Liver Donor Needed for Teen Boy
- Game of 7, and the first look inside The Last House in the Sky
- Writing in an Emotional Wasteland
- Bathroom Monologue: To Hate
- Bathroom Monologue: The Sunrise Apocalypse
- Bathroom Monologue: Beats a Neon Sign
- The Problem With Prologues
- Bathroom Monologue: Naked Crowds
- Bathroom Monologue: But then you’ll marry your dog!
- Bathroom Monologue: Chinese Crayfish
- Consumed Podcast: Prometheus
- Bathroom Monologue: Censorship
- Bathroom Monologue: She Crosses Over
- Bathroom Monologue: The Problem With Assassin’s Creed
- Kreativ Blogger Award
- Bathroom Monologue: Only Middle Easterner in America
- Bathroom Monologue: Reality Offline
- Dig In, Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Love Like Lightning
May 2012
- Why 2,000 Words Per Day is Unnecessary
- Bathroom Haiku: Horrorku Romantic Ad
- Bathroom Monologue: The Prime Directive
- Bathroom Monologue: No Militaries in the Gay, Redux
- Fifteen Novels That Stick With Me
- Bathroom Monologue: The Shortest Friendship, The Shortest Dialogue, OR, This May Have Really Happened
- Bathroom Monologue: Frankenstein's Monsters
- Crippling Doubts in the Rough Draft
- Bathroom Monologue: Evil is Back
- Consumed Episode 5: Cabin in the Woods, Fez and The Warded Man
- Bathroom Monologue: He Walked in on the Wrong Reality
- The Brutal 2,000-Word Day
- Bathroom Monologue: Mancers, OR, An Order of Wizards
- Bathroom Monologue: Maybe They've Stopped Using Stamps
- Bathroom Monologue: Unbelievable Girl
- Bathroom Monologue: What if he doesn’t have a secret identity?
- Bathroom Monologue: Inventor’s Luck
- Paulo Coelho Sells Out (at $0.99)
- Bathroom Monologue: An Assurance of Fingers
- Bathroom Monologue: Lovably Bland, No More
- Bathroom Monologue: Clippy's Revenge
- Bathroom Monologue: Everyone's Advice on Writing Ever (Graph)
- Bathroom Monologue: Smaller than Our Fathers
- Bathroom Monologue: The New Hot Girl is Evil
- Bathroom Monologue: Sentence in Hell
- John's Versatile Answers, EST 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: The End of Food, OR, Did You See It Coming?
- Bathroom Monologue: The Great Master Gry
- Bathroom Monologue: “You can kill someone with a needle?” -Lian Hearn’s Kaede in Across the Nightingale Floor
- Bathroom Monologue: Vampire Hunter Hunters, OR, I Won't Sparkle
- Teaser Tuesday: Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
April 2012
- Voting with Your Wallet
- Bathroom Monologue: Corruption Vs. Incompetence
- Bathroom Monologue: What To Do With Haunted Relics
- Bathroom Monologue: Reaching for the Moon Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Bedside Anthropology Redux
- Don't Write Fantasy
- Teaser Tuesday: The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction
- Bathroom Monologue: A Trail of Space Smut
- Fixing the Versatile Writer Award
- Bathroom Monologue: The Best Movie Trailer You’ll Never SEE
- Bathroom Monologue: Black Knight > King Arthur
- The 10 Most-Watched Movies of All Time
- Bathroom Monologue: Safe House, Green House – for Icy Sedgwick
- Teaser Tuesday: The Warded Man
- Bathroom Monologue: Against Hemingway
- Bathroom Monologue: The People You Meet in Hell
- Bathroom Monologue: Indicators I Got Old This Year
- True Stories of John: Friday the 13th
- Bathroom Monologue: No Thanks
- What Makes You Put Books Down?
- Broke My New Years Resolution
- Bathroom Monologue: A reader writes in that hippos aren’t herbivores and eat people
- John Wiswell Died on Easter
- Bathroom Monologue: John's asked to talk someone’s husband into practicing the route to the hospital for when she gives birth
- Bathroom Monologue: In Sheep's Clothing Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Nice Life, Ugly Poem
- Bathroom Monologue: When You Lose
- Bathroom Monologue: The Vampire Mirror
- “Would you drink apple juice if you knew a sterilized cockroach had touched it?” –Everyone, paraphrasing Jonathan Haidt
- Bathroom Monologue: Miss Anthrope
March 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: John’s Mass Effect 3 Ending *SPOILERS*
- Bathroom Monologue: Almost Clever
- Mass Effect 3 Podcast
- Bathroom Monologue: LOBBYGAGGING (Proposed Neologism)
- Bathroom Monologue: Gaia Man
- True Stories of John 20: Naked and Bleeding in a Hotel
- Quality: Self-Pub Vs. Traditional-Pub
- Bathroom Monologue: Under the Tide
- Bathroom Monologue: They Call it ‘The Widow’
- This Photo Is Lying
- Tips for Surviving a Dystopia
- Bathroom Monologue: One-Armed Immortal
- Bathroom Monologue: My Kind of Priest
- John Writing in a Bath Tub, OR, Birthday Games
- "Shark Cafe" is Abroad
- Bathroom Monologue: Drowning World Turtle
- PayPal Backs Off Censoring Erotica
- Bathroom Monolgue: Cost of Normal
- Bathroom Monologue: The Difference Between Alligators and Crocodiles
- The Novel is Done... Are The Bathroom Monologues?
- Bathroom Monologue: Ethical Rig, OR, Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
- Another Surface
- Bathroom Monologue: S-
- Music for Editing
- Bathroom Monologue:The Reading Test
- Bathroom Monologue: If you could go back in time and kill the child Hitler, preventing his rise to power, would you?
- True Stories of John 19: John's Memory Mocks Him, OR, Returning from the Grocery Monologue
- Bathroom Monologue: Alternative Ending to Little Red Riding Hood
- Moralists For Erotica; PayPal Vs. Smashwords
- Bathroom Monologue: It’s Going to be a Long Night
- "The Body Count of Monte Cristo" -Jake Rodkin, Idle Thumbs
February 2012
- Bathroom Monologue: Leap Day
- Bathroom Monologue: Gay Divorce
- Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards
- Bathroom Monologue: Nothing Exits, Nothing Gained
- Bathroom Monologue: Godless Ghost
- Bathroom Monologue: On the Deathbed of Carl Rudolph
- Five Questions About Writing
- Bathroom Monologue: What God Gave for Lent
- Eight Reasons to Yell at the LA Times, OR, Appropriating Hitler
- Bathroom Monologue: Boris Adapts to Drugs
- Bathroom Monologue: Writing Prompt?
- Bathroom Monologue: Die Hard Vs. No Country for Old Men
- Bathroom Monologue: Tempest in a Teapot
- Eight Lines I Cut From The Novel
- Bathroom Monologue: Half Price Drinks Never Hurt So Bad
- Romances I Actually Like
- Bathroom Monologue: Thank You, Lita
- Bathroom Monologue: Modern World Besieged
- Bathroom Monologue: Paying Villains
- Bathroom Monologue: Making Her
- Now I Get a Liebster Award
- Bathroom Monologue: Yesterday was a Holiday
- On My Beta Readers
- Bathroom Monologue: Deceptions of Love
- Bathroom Monologue: Can't Beat Them Audio Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Generations of Windows
- Bathroom Monologue: Shakespeare and a Ziplock Bag
- Bathroom Monologue: Introducing Wartsinol
- Bathroom Monologue: My Last Three Nights
January 2012
- #National Novel Reading Month Ends
- Bathroom Monologue: Mummy Elaborated
- Bathroom Monologue: Americans Hate Science
- Bathroom Monologue: Ghost Rant
- Bathroom Monologue: A Priest
- Bathroom Monologue: Best Car Ever
- Eating My Prejudices
- Bathroom Monologue: Childese
- Spoiled #1 - David Fincher's The Game
- Bathroom Monologue: Motion Control
- Bathroom Monologue: Unbeatable Government
- Bathroom Monologue: Edgar Seterra
- Bathroom Monologue: On Writer’s Block
- Bathroom Haiku: Richard Simmons, for Mike Houlding
- Bathroom Dialogue: Orange Juice and House Fires, OR, How John Talks to a Girlfriend
- Checking in for #NaNoReMo
- Bathroom Monologue: The Senator’s Daughter
- "Shameless" at Karen Berner's Blog
- Bathroom Monologue: Renegade Sons and Gatorade Moms, Redux Drabble
- Alpha Reactions to Beta Readers
- Bathroom Math: Where Opinions Come From
- 'Gates of Eden' Review up at A Reader's Heaven
- Bathroom Monologue: The Ascent of Man, Over Trashcan
- Consumed 3, Featuring SciFi TV and Zombies
- Bathroom Monologue: Dead Strangers
- Bathroom Monologue: The Ring of the Lord
- Bathroom Monologue: I Am Not a Chauvinist
- John is a Versatile Blogger Once More
- Bathroom Monologue: The Carnivore of Crime
- True Stories of John 18: Suicide Jumper
- Bathroom Monologue: Town of Voice
2011 367
December 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Artistic House Cleaning
- Bathroom Monologue: Peggy
- National Novel Reading Month is January
- #bestreads2011 Blog Hop
- Bathroom Monologue: The New Anti-Science
- John Interviewed at Webfiction World
- The Answers to the Christmas Book Contest
- Can You Guess The Author Before David?
- Bathroom Monologue: Santa Drops the Truth Bomb
- Notice: #bestreads2011 Next Week
- Bathroom Monologue: Vampires are Addicts
- Bathroom Monologue: Fate Worse Than Death
- Bathroom Monologue: Mother-in-Law Versus Mother of her Granddaughter, OR, Fresh out of Bed Monologue
- Eulogy for Irene Sabo Corcoran
- True Stories of John 17: Fairy Tales from Grandma Rene
- "Wolf Slayer" at Enchanted Conversation, dedicated to Grandma Rene
- People Haunt Homes
- Bathroom Monologue: Consensual Sexual Harassment
- Bathroom Monologue: Tim is Dead
- Bathroom Monologue: First World Problems
- “THESE DOORS MUST REMAIN CLOSED” –Sign at a hospital
- Bathroom Haiku: Living Cities
- Bathroom Monologue: Petra’s Ghost
- Zelda: King of Limbo Synopsis, Part 6 - The Finale
- Zelda: King of Limbo Synopsis, Part 5 - Versus Ganon!
- Zelda: King of Limbo Synopsis, Part 4 - The Golden Realm
- Zelda: King of Limbo Synopsis, Part 3 - The Master Sword, Without Link?
- Zelda: King of Limbo Synopsis, Part 2 - Now With Fairies
- Zelda: King of Limbo Synopsis, Part 1
- Maybe Santa Will Rescind
- Bathroom Monologue: Not Santa
November 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Lord, Hear Our Vegetarian Prayer
- Seven Ciphers in Classic Speculative Fiction, OR, Why Ciphers Are Bad
- True Stories of John 16: Skyrim
- Bathroom Monologue: Editing 1996
- Bathroom Monologue: The Happier Genre
- Bathroom Monologue: Dawn Defines
- Practicing Gratitude
- Bathroom Monologue: Fight Night
- Bathroom Monologue: Pitiful Lex
- Should John Post About The Legend of Zelda?
- True Stories of John 15: How John Talks to His Grandmother
- Bathroom Monologue: The Manliness of Gay Men
- I'm More Versatile Than You Are
- Bathroom Monologue: Helping the Nice Guy
- Bathroom Monologue: Lesson from The Great Ghost
- Interviewed About Possible Origins for Him
- Confessions of the Unread
- Making Ideas
- Bathroom Monologue: Thoughtful Bear
- Bathroom Haiku: Answer
- Bathroom Monologue: It’s Not Easy Being
- Bathroom Monologue: We are the 99% of your daydreams
- Consumed Episode 2 Actually Exists
- True Stories of John 14: The Vampire Food Chain
- No Country For Old Men, OR, Have You Read That Movie?
- Bathroom Monologue: Credit Card Trail of the Dead
- “Men treat childbirth as though it’s something icky.” –Someone who wishes to remain anonymous
- Bathroom Monologue: Demake
- Bathroom Monologue: Dog Thoughts
- Bathroom Haiku: Nanomachines in Autumn
- Bathroom Monologue: Nothing Happened to My Marriage
October 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Halloween Exposition
- Bathroom Monologue: “I’ve always wanted to die. Always.” –Natalie Cortez, The Seventh Victim (1943)
- Bathroom Monologue: A Big Hand
- Bathroom Monologue: The Children of Cinema Lane
- Bathroom Monologue: The Dark Lord's Rayment
- Bathroom Haiku: Baba Yaga's House
- Bathroom Monologue: Anatomical Model of a Mind
- Bathroom Monologue: Clothes Make the Man
- Bathroom Monologue: High Tech Problem. Low Tech Protest.
- Bathroom Monologue: Unwanted Lovers
- Bathroom Monologue: Possible Origins for Him. 18.
- Bathroom Monologue: In Defense of MacGuffins
- Bathroom Haiku: Basilisk, for @tsbazelli
- The Writing Breather
- Bathroom Monologue: Crying Werewolf
- Bathroom Monologue: That's Super
- Bathroom Monologue: Bad Videogame Titles
- Bathroom Monologue: What the Holidays Mean
- Watch This Space
- Bathroom Haiku: Tonberry, for @Makani
- Bathroom Monologue: I Won’t Fight for Women’s Rights
- Bathroom Monologue: You Bitch
- "Kill Mommy" and "Sologamous" Audio Editions at Untied Shoelaces
- Bathroom Monologue: Writer’s Self-Doubt
- Bathroom Monologue: Couple of Horrors
- The Bob Ross of Writers
- Bathroom Haiku: Fu Dog/Shishi Lion, for @valerievaldes
- Bathroom Monologue: Littlest Psychic Lost
- Bathroom Monologue: Nice Costume
- Bathroom Monologue: On the Obese, OR, Big, Fat Rage
- "in the romantic-comedy world there are many specimens of women who... do not exist in real life. Here are some examples:" -Mindy Kaling, New Yorker
September 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: A Tough Job, OR, Waited My Whole Life for This Pun
- Why Do You Buy Books?
- Bathroom Haiku: Cactuar
- Lady Kickass & Superman: Why Too-Good Characters Are Still Good
- Bathroom Monologue: What Children Should Worry About
- Bathroom Monologue: Physics Isn’t Good or Bad
- Bathroom Monologue: Girl Scout Sales Leader
- Bathroom Monologue: The Last Cat on Earth
- Bathroom Monologue: Electronic Motions
- Bathroom Monologue: Where I’m Buried
- Bathroom Monologue: Men Only Want One Thing
- Bathroom Monologue: The Pirates Sailed Inland Again
- Bathroom Monologue: The Saddest Sand Castle
- "Sologamous" in Print!
- Bathroom Monologue: Possible Origins for Him. 17.
- Bathroom Monologue: Phallus for the Sky
- Writing Challenge and Promise
- Bathroom Monologue: The Box From Y.
- True Stories of John 13: Do Not Post Until 9/12
- Bathroom Monologue: Roadie Story
- Bathroom Monologue: In the Mirror at 30
- Bathroom Monologue: Can't Beat Them
- Seriously Cute Blogger Award? Alright...
- Writing For Millions
- Bathroom Monologue: Time Machines
- Bathroom Monologue: The Infinite Jest
- My Big R.A.Q.: The Rarely Asked Questions of 2011
- A Racist VERSUS I Hate Gay
- Bathroom Monologue: A Racist's Acceptance of Gayness Over Time
- Bathroom Monologue: Chess Scares Me
August 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: "How can you be militant non-stamp collector?" -A.C. Grayling
- Bathroom Monologue: Full Body-Waxed Stubbornness
- My Big R.A.Q.
- Bathroom Monologue: Fruit of the Infinitely Tiny Tea Pot
- Vote for Best of #fridayflash
- Bathroom Monologue: The Titan of Lonesome Road
- Bathroom Monologue: Corners of this Little World
- Remembering Satoshi Kon, 1963-2010
- Bathroom Monologue: Kicking It All
- Bathroom Monologue: Fighting For Myths
- Bathroom Monologue: Stop Improving, Please
- Bathroom Monologue: Real Time Recipe
- Bathroom Monologue: Dear Earth
- Bathroom Monologue: A Comedy of Commerces
- Bathroom Monologue: 6000 Players at Level 0
- Essay: Are People Designed to be Unhappy?
- Launching a Podcast
- Bathroom Monologue: Kamikaze Pilots Are Unethical
- Bathroom Monologue: And They're The Snappiest Dressers
- Bathroom Monologue: Dear Child
- Notes to My Younger Self
- 5 Musicians Who Made Me a Better Writer
- Bathroom Monologue: Law of Conservation of Magic, OR, Hotel Bathroom Monologue
- True Stories of John 12: Otakon 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Russians on the Minotaur
- Bathroom Monologue: "Write me a haiku about a dog watching TV. Now! Go!" -Red
- Bathroom Monologue: Welcome to Modernity
- A Death's Daughter: Corners of the Earth
- At Death's Daughter: The Scythe
- Incalculable Haiku
- Bathroom Monologue: Concluding Literature
July 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Existential Something
- Bathroom Monologue: Outlandish Fiction
- Bathroom Monologue: Do Not Hug the Golem
- Bathroom Monologue: Little Boy Warrior
- Bathroom Monologue: The Other
- Five Reasons to Use Proper Nouns in Dialogue
- Bathroom Monologue: YA Fiction Vs. OA Fiction
- Bathroom Monologue: Dear Spiders
- Ridiculous Questions, Ridiculous Answers
- Bathroom Monologue: Descent of Failure
- Bathroom Monologue: Miniature Self-Soiling Noise Machine
- How I Wrote My Novel, True Story of John 11
- Bathroom Monologue: Louis’s Perfect Plan
- True Stories of John 10: You Can’t Stop John Carpenter
- Bathroom Monologue: Worth 1,000 Words
- What Writing Means to Me
- Bathroom Monologue: Reaching For
- Can a Chart Tell a Story?
- Bathroom Monologue: Add Minister
- Bathroom Monologue: Ever-Loving Shit
- Be Three Times as Versatile!
- Bathroom Monologue: A Maze Inescapable
- BM: "There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." –Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
- Bathroom Monologue: Never Forget How to be Alone
- Bathroom Monologue: Inventing Homer
- 7 Movies That Are Better Than The Books They’re Based On
- Bathroom Monologue: Own'd by the Devil
- Bathroom Monologue: Suppression at the Barbecue
- Pet Baby Cthulhu
- Letters to Nevertorial: No One's Read Don Quixote
- Bathroom Monologue: They Miss Him
June 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Patch Notes for the Universe 6.62.607
- "Clarifying Lies About the Internet" at Vis A Tergo
- Bathroom Monologue: The Ring of Fraud
- Bathroom Haiku: The Perfect Haiku
- Bathroom Monologue: Toy Story 4 Synopsis
- Bathroom Monologue: Proposing in New York
- "The Stork Option" at Weird Tales!
- Bathroom Monologue: Publishing the Laundry List
- Bathroom Monologue: Mate
- George Martin, Jim Butcher, and How Long Fans Should Wait
- Bathroom Monologue: Where the Muses Be
- The Worst Father's Day Card
- Bathroom Monologue: 10 Fates Worse Than Death
- Bathroom Monologue: Possible Origins for Him. 16.
- Bathroom Monologue: Monologue for Bill Cosby as a Marginally More Lucid Father Than Usual
- Bathroom Monologue: Corpsing
- Bathroom Monologue: Ice Tea
- Happy Endings and the Nonsense of Realism
- Bathroom Haiku: Blowhard
- "Computer Education" in EDF Anthology
- Bathroom Monologue: She Danced
- Bathroom Monologue: Wire Cutters
- Blurbs for the Greatest Book Never Written
- Bathroom Monologue: Possible Origins for Him. 15.
- Let Another One In at Every Day Fiction
- Not For a Doomsday Weapon as recorded by Max Cantor
- Bathroom Monologue: A Familiar Trial
- Bathroom Monologue: Up High
- Bathroom Monologue: Athenaists
- Bathroom Monologue: Conscience Transplant
May 2011
- Nobody’s House – Rough Draft is Done
- Bathroom Monologue: The Message
- Bathroom Monologue: Why We Need a Pool
- "Simply Lost" at Calling Shotgun
- Bathroom Monologue: Telling Dad
- Bathroom Monologue: Flower Over a Man OR, Write a Tweet-Length Story About This Picture
- True Stories of John 9: What Men Want
- No Facebook in Heaven, OR, E-mails From Heaven
- Versatile Writer Award 2: I’ll stab you if you make a Breakin’ reference
- Bathroom Monologue: Self-Defeating Prophecy Audio Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Rapture Plan
- Bathroom Monologues: Possible Origins for Him. 14.
- Bathroom Monologue: Humans on The Fall
- I Want to Write The Last Unicorn: Peter Beagle’s Effect on My Current Novel
- Bathroom Monologue: Limping for the Cure, OR, More of this was said than you’d think
- Bathroom Monologue: Stopped Cold
- Bathroom Monologue: One Thousand, Nine-Hundred and Eighty-Four Good Reasons
- Bathroom Monologue: O Lie Detector, O Russian Bride
- Bathroom Monologue: The Strange Case of East Parish
- Bathroom Monologue: Amending Spring
- Bathroom Monologue: Fucking Genius, A Monologue
- Bathroom Monologue: The Cost of Fire
- The Adventures of Raptor Theropod
- New Rule for the Game - Audio Redux
- Bathroom Monologue: Skepticism about Telepathy
- Bathroom Monologue: Shameless
- Remembering Frank Muller: John’s Inspiration for Narration
- Bathroom Monologue: The Merits of Factual Inaccuracy
- Bathroom Monologue: Possible Origins for Him. 13.
- Bathroom Monologue: "#changemantovelociraptor" -Lou Freshwater
- Bathroom Monologue: Wrestler in Black
April 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Try a Sugar Pill
- Bathroom Monologue: He Wasn't Ready
- Bathroom Monologue: "Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around." -Stephen King, On Writing
- Bathroom Haiku: Uneven
- High Book Prices Are Good For You
- Bathroom Monologue: Methinks, OR, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." -William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Bathroom Monologue: Easter Basket Vs. Exercise
- Letters to Nevertorial: Chicken Big
- "The Sun Belt" at Flash Fiction Online
- Bathroom Monologue: Pitching In Without Fingers
- Bathroom Monologue: Men in Reflective Houses
- Bathroom Monologue: “Your scene is not a scene if….” –The Intern
- Bathroom Monologue: On Polyamory and Gluttony
- Three Bindle Stiffs Audio Recording
- Bathroom Monologue: Nessy Gets Voted Out
- Bathroom Monologue: Fantasy of Disablism
- Bathroom Monologue: The Writing Fight
- Trending: Worldwide
- Writing Prompt: Death of the Horrible
- Bathroom Monologue: Working Grandpa
- Bea Arthur: A Novel, Audio Redux
- Bathroom Haiku: Digital Laughter
- Bathroom Monologue: This Country, Spring 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Possible Origins for Him. 12.
- Bathroom Monologue: R.R. Crossing
- Bathroom Monologue: Multi-Function Books
- Bathroom Monologues: Ism
- Reading While Writing
- Bathroom Monologue: The President is a Foreigner
- Worst Convention Story at Geektress
- Bathroom Monologue: The Real Sword of Damocles
March 2011
- Bathroom Monologue: Happiest Man in the World
- Bathroom Monologue: Fire!
- Bathroom Monologue: He Who Tests
- True Stories of John 8: Worst Convention Experience
- Bathroom Monologue: How the World Really Is
- Bathroom Haiku: Space Party
- Bathroom Monologue: Three Bindle Stiffs
- Bathroom Monologue: UseTech
- Bathroom Art Challenge 2: The Girl With No Shoes
- What Kind of Writer Are You?
- Imagine His Face, OR, "Can't we have one nice moment?"
- Bathroom Monologue: Five-Man Killer
- Bathroom Monologue: Guys & Logs
- Bathroom Monologue: Lucky Four Leaf Clover
- NYSEG Vs. Us Vs. NYSEG, Part 2 of 2
- NYSEG Vs. Us Vs. NYSEG, Part 1 of 2
- Bathroom Monologue: Disrespect for Unhappiness
- Bathroom Monologue: Contagious Condition
- "Corners of this Little World" at 5x5
- Bathroom Monologue: End
- Bathroom Monologue: My Space Plane
- Bathroom Monologue: Abolishing True Love
- Bathroom Monologue: Quiet in the Library
- Bathroom Monologue at a Public Library Bathroom, OR, Immortally Yours
- Bathroom Monologue: Caller Id
- Recording: Not For a Doomsday Weapon
- Bathroom Monologue: New Rule for the Game
- Bathroom Monologue: Not For a Doomsday Weapon
- Bathroom Monologue: Marriage of Evolution
- Bathroom Monologue: Regarding Mr. Floyd, OR, Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2, Take 2
- Bathroom Monologue: Coldblooded Body Image
February 2011
- The Bathroom Monologues Movie Awards
- Bathroom Monologue: The iBelieve
- Bathroom Monologue: Monologue for a slightly tipsy Stephen Fry who may have forgotten he’s still on stage
- Bathroom Monologue: What You Need
- Bathroom Monologue: At Death's Daughter
- Bathroom Monologue: Very Smart
- 7 Things I Want From Novels
- Bathroom Monologue: Twinkle, Twinkle, Jesus Christ
- Bathroom Monologue: Whitewashing Covers Monologue
- Bathroom Monologue: Song and Arrow
- Bathroom Monologue: The Torment of Mr. Yellowbelly, OR, Monologue for an older brother
- Pitch: SPIDER-MAN: SIDEKICK OF THUNDER
- The Bernard Pivot Questionnaire
- Bathroom Monologue: If writing were a regular job
- Bathroom Monologue: At Our Best
- Bathroom Monologue: Serpents and Stones
- Bathroom Monologue: The Won’t
- "Kill Mommy" at Untied Shoelaces
- Bathroom Monologue: Narcissism
- Bathroom Monologue: Quakers Vs. Anarchists
- Bathroom Art Challenge 2: The Girl with Awkward Footing
- Bathroom Monologue: Deputy Wallace Handles Zombies
- Bathroom Monologue: Monologue for an Edward Norton who, for whatever reason, thinks he's Woody Allen
- Bathroom Monologue: One-Liners on Love
- Bathroom Monologue: Mr. Goliath, OR, "Goliath Must Be Slain" -Maria Kelly
- Bathroom Monologue: Adaptation at Work
- 7 Necessary Elements of a Blog Post
- True Stories of John 7: Dumbest Thing You Could Do
January 2011
- "Viva La Love Pen" at Fiction Writer
- Bathroom Monologue: Lapsed Atheist
- “I wish you were dead!” –Commercial for child behavior program
- Bathroom Monologue: How To Avoid Being Shot
- Bathroom Monologue: “Am I going to spend all of my thirties insisting that I’m not really old?” –Brenda Kirk, OR, John’s Internal Narrative
- Bathroom Monologue: Pet Peeves
- Bathroom Monologue: Haunted House Compromise
- Bathroom Monologue: A Priest, a Rabbi, a Minister, a Joker
- Bathroom Haiku: Backspace of the Gods
- An Award Goes to John's Head
- Bathroom Monologue: The Danni
- Bathroom Monologue: Triple Time Travel
- Rejection of a "High Quality" Story That's "not all that good"
- Bathroom Monologue: Inspired by a coughing fit
- "Might As Well" Recordings
- Bathroom Monologue: Sunnier Titles for Books
- Bathroom Monologue: GifT
- Bathroom Monologue: Possible Origins for Him. 11.
- Bathroom Monologue: I believe it was Mark Twain
- Bathroom Monologue: Original Wearer of the Lampshade
- Bathroom Monologue: Beware the Sign
- Bathroom Monologue: Gets My Coils Going
- Bathroom Monologue: Might As Well, OR, “Whatever happened once may not have happened at all” –Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Bathroom Monologue: Whirlwind Thoughts
- Bathroom Monologue: He Has To Wonder At 130
- Bathroom Monologue: Checklist of pretentious things to do
- Bathroom Monologue: Happily Ever After (In Comparison)
- Bathroom Monologue: Possible Origins for Him. 10.
- Bathroom Monologue: Five Stage Theory
- Bathroom Monologue: Holicide
- Bathroom Haiku: Tao-ny Hair