MasteryPlus | Stina Leicht | Activity https://www.masteryplus.com/members/stina/activity/ Activity feed for Stina Leicht. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:13:56 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 370b5ee5497387dd5fa5ca0432058631 Stina Leicht replied to the topic in the forum Members http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/moral-support-floggings-will-continue-until-moral-improves/#post-415 Tue, 06 Dec 2016 16:05:17 -0800 Any progress is progress. 🙂

]]> aded0194e65b49677b6b34c9f45de54a Stina Leicht replied to the topic in the forum Members http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/moral-support-floggings-will-continue-until-moral-improves/#post-408 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:21:33 -0800 “Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc. Not just pretty words.”–Morticia Addams

Honestly, what Tananarive said is my experience as well. That inner critic never goes away. It merely changes its script. For me, it’s gone like this over the past 15 years:

You’re not a writer. You’ve no talent.
A senior editor from Del Rey reads my short story at a…[Read more]

]]> fb068f88dabc940934f9b4d69b180086 Stina Leicht replied to the topic in the forum Members http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/could-we-try-to-set-up-something-like-slack-for-real-time-conversations/#post-386 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:39:37 -0800 I, too, like Slack. It’s great for real-time conversations.

]]> afb7c2fa2e2ada630ada1510414b8c66 Stina Leicht started the topic in the forum http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/a-sirens-call-is-a-cry-of-sorrow/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:38:12 -0800 It’s a dark, magical realism, mermaid story set in Houston, Texas. A young girl and her younger sister grow up in a sexist environment. The only safe place for them–free of harassment–is underwater. They dream of becoming mermaids so that they can escape the constant harassment from men and boys. The sister finds a witch to help them. The witch…[Read more]

]]> 12b6e423d453526b0d8bf9586cfd2b18 Stina Leicht started the topic in the forum http://revolutionary-writing.masteryplus.com/forums/topic/the-heros-journey-and-colonialism/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:25:57 -0800 I do feel that The Hero’s Journey is a helpful tool for writing. My stance on it, however, is that it isn’t the *only* tool for writing. It has some inherent problems which, if ignored, can cause problematic writing and thinking. Like any useful tool, it’s only useful when the user is aware of its pitfalls. (Hammers are great, but they aren’t the…[Read more]

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