Category Archives: Too XYZ
Personal Linguistics
I’m a writer. I work with words. But like anyone else, I also need to use them in everything else I do. Also like everyone else I have particular go-to phrases or words to express or indicate certain concepts and feelings. That isn’t to say I never use alternatives, because I do. Yet everyday speech …
Scintilla13 Day 14
We exert control over ourselves and others in many ways. Talk about a time when you lost that control. This can go beyond the obvious emotional control into things like willpower, tidiness, self-discipline, physical prowess – any time that you felt your autonomy slipping away. I really can’t say my very autonomy has slipped away …
Scintilla13 Day 7
Write about someone who was a mentor for you. The issue of mentors is one of the most sensitive for me. Reason being, I’ve never had one. You can read that again, or you can read this sentence wherein I repeat that staggering claim: I’ve never had a mentor. Not a teacher. Not an employer. Not …
Scintilla Day 6
Write about a chance meeting that has stayed with you ever since. This doesn’t happen to me often, because to be frank, strangers don’t find me interesting, charming, or worth the time to engage. I don’t play social games often, and when I do, rejection is usually the result, so I don’t bother. When people …
Introvert Dating Tips (Repost)
(Originally posted on my old blog, Too XYZ in October of 2011, I thought I’d give this classic post a second life here on Valentine’s Day. I’ve cleaned up the language a bit from the original. Apologies for the odd formatting, but after 30 minutes I got tired of trying to get it to do …
Ty Unglebower 