experience
The Value of First Hand Experience

The Value of First Hand Experience

The interesting, and difficult, thing about being a writer is that you must usually write about things that are outside your experience. The wonderful thing about being a writer is that your writing is enriched by your experience. Being a fantasy writer, this begs the...

read more

Rules of Feminism 6: Your Experience is not Universal

So, you know how I said that experience trumps theory? Well, here's the caveat - experience doesn't trump other experiences.Your experience is not general or universal.What I mean is that you had best be very, very careful about taking your personal experience and...

read more

Rules of Feminism 3: Experience vs Hypotheticals

Okay, I loves me some science. I love statistics, and data, and collation, and - look, I'm a colossal nerd. My ideas of fun are alien to the rest of the world. But even in social settings, I can never forget the scientific method, and that's where evidence is more...

read more