The Black Genre
I remember the joy I used to get as a little kid perusing the aisles of books of my local library in Chicago. I was a nine-year-old who read H.G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, and J.R.R. Tolkien. The latter of whom—I must admit—I found extremely challenging. But I was nine; can you blame me?
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters opens with a chaotic scene: a house is on fire, Evie Cottrell stands screaming on the staircase, and Brandy Alexander lies bleeding from a gunshot wound, asking the narrator to tell her life story. What occurs after is a series of non-linear stories in which the reader slowly learns about the characters and the circumstances by which they’ve become what they are.
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Comic: Writers Rules in the Real World

Gender Genie

Here is a fun office game for a Wednesday: The Gender Genie. The Gender Genie is a simplified version of an algorithm to predict the gender of an author. Simply submit a paragraph to the website, and the Gender Genie guesses your gender based on your writing style. The Genie works by analyzing the number of male keywords compared to the number of female keywords. Words like “around,” what,” “more” and “are” indicate a male writer while words like “with,” “if,” “not” and “where” indicate a female writer. Test the Gender Genie by clicking here.

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