Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation

So, sometimes Carrie is a little extra. Carrie: I was looking at people who liked me in college – all the ones that I didn’t like back – and they were all so stable and mellow even in college when it was all about putting dissected sharks on the floor and jello shots. Now they … Continue reading "Being Extra"

We’ve Been Married Too Long and Poop Texts Sometimes you get married and you’ve been married for a long time and you remember that the beginning of your marriage is like a poem and there’s white space and new discovery in every line.  Sometimes you’ve been married a long time and it’s a routine, a … Continue reading "We’ve Been Married Too Long and Poop Texts"

None of us are perfect with the grammar, especially not us native-English speakers. We’ve got all these words that mean totally different things but sound EXACTLY THE SAME!  And today, we here on Dogs are Smarter Than People are going to do things. Prove that dogs are smarter than people because they don’t have to … Continue reading "Aw, Ah, Aah, Awe, or Ah is that Underwear?"

The sexiest person in publishing is your copyeditor. Seriously. Okay. First things first:  What the hell is a copyeditor?  That’s a hard question because honestly copyeditors can’t even agree on how to spell copyeditor or copyediting.  Grammar nerds use style guides for consistency and those guides could be Chicago (most books), AP (most newspapers), MLA … Continue reading "What the Hell is a Copyeditor? Um, just the sexiest person in publishing."

Normally we talk about writing somehow, right? Because we’re a writing podcast. But we aren’t this week. This week, we’re talking about fashion advice for men because Carrie saw a post on The Art of Manliness that was “101 Style Tips for Men.” First off, let’s just give a shout out that there’s a website … Continue reading "Some Men Aren’t Meant to Wear Scarves, So Be Your Own Style and Don’t Pretend to Be Tom Cruise Or Bieber"

Writing is NOT Terrible; Men Disrobing in the Meat Department & Lynryd Skynyrd concerts

The wedgie. It’s the ultimate tv trope. Give someone a wedgie and there are only two possibilities: You’re a bully You’re getting revenge on a bully. In the U.S. culture wedgies are instantly recognizable and understandable. There are even three wedgie variations: The Melvin, in which the undies are yanked up from the front. The … Continue reading "Let’s Talk About Wedgies"

A quick web search for the words ‘flirting’ and ‘dangerous’ gets a lot of hits. To be fair, so does a quick web search for the words ‘flirting’ and ‘fun.’ But we’re not here to tell you about the perils and delights of flirting. We’re here to talk about writing, life, and dogs. Actually, flirting … Continue reading "Flirt Your Eyelashes Off, Writers"

There’s a BuzzFeed article about 23 Dogs Who are Too Adorably Stupid for Their Own Good. Which is amazing. But it made us think about why dogs get to be stupid and called adorable, but when humans are stupid, we’re called stupid and it’s derisive, you know? There’s this constant pressure to be perfect, intelligent. … Continue reading "Own Your Own Stupid"

Carrie got really confused this week because she went on YouTube and looked up “Writing Advice” and there was a really popular vlogger who gives a ton of writing advice, but she’s not published things. She is, however, really definite on her views on how to be a good writer, which is lovely. It’s lovely … Continue reading "The Worst Writing Advice That Brings Down Even the Greatest of Writers"