Five Things I Learned in the Age of the Typewriter
This is essentially my philosophy. And I too got started on a typewriter…
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Quote of the Day
Justice is not done to the versatility and the unplumbed childishness of man’s imagination. -Robert Louis Stevenson
WriteTip: When You Get Stuck, You Just Keep Going
Writing -any creative endeavor, really – is all about giving yourself permission to fail. Now, in one sense, that’s idiotic and ridiculous. The purpose of art is not to make something that’s bad. It’s not to allow something that’s bad to enter the market. The purpose of art is to make something that people respond… Read More WriteTip: When You Get Stuck, You Just Keep Going
I Don’t Know If This Means Anything…
…but I have been collecting followers on Tablo at a fairly rapid clip. Without too much promotion on social media, either. I’m going to chalk that up to the work appealing on some level. The last chapter of The Devil Left Him is started. I can still finish if I sit down and make it happen.… Read More I Don’t Know If This Means Anything…
Word Fact: Toward vs. Towards | Dictionary.com Blog
http://blog.dictionary.com/word-fact-toward-vs-towards/ I was stuck for which to use, so I googled. Apparently there’s no rule against using it either way, but “toward” is more common in North America, and “towards” elsewhere.
Time in Space
One of the sci-fi novellas I’m working on right now, Void, has a theme about space travel and the hell it plays with time. When I wrote Solar System Blues, I avoided this by making the ship in question travel at below-light velocity, and deliberately making the voyage a long one. Even then, the fact that Burton… Read More Time in Space
Somebody Translated Descartes’ Meditations into Bro-Speak
That someone calls himself Philosophy Bro, and the book: Descartes Meditations, Bro. It features a side-by-side translate, so you have the 1901 English Translation, and the Bro-Speak on the facing page. You know, like the Seamus Heaney Beowulf or Pinsky’s translation of The Inferno (both of which you should read, because they’re awesome). I just wanted it… Read More Somebody Translated Descartes’ Meditations into Bro-Speak
Donuts are Awesome. Meth is Not.
SciBabe makes five arguments why Donuts won’t kill you, but meth totally will. Best part, she knocks down the whole “sugar is addictive” tripe. Sugar is sweet. It tastes good. You can crave it, sure. I’m craving some fruit right now, in no doubt partially because it’s sweet. But it does not trigger your brain… Read More Donuts are Awesome. Meth is Not.
Birther Trump is Not a Birther
So, I was at the gym this morning, and in between sets I tend to gaze up at the TV. The one closest to me always has MSNBC on, which is fine, as it’s good to absorb the framing of the other side (for the record, I’m a declared Gary Johnson supporter, but I’m not… Read More Birther Trump is Not a Birther
Welcome to the New Weimar Republic
German Neo-Nazis putting the boot to migrants. It’s not surprising that this happened. Nazis, neo- or otherwise, don’t like immigrants. That’s their thing. What’s surprising is this: But police said the asylum seekers started the confrontation – and later hurled bottles at the police trying to save them from a beating. The migrants picked the… Read More Welcome to the New Weimar Republic
Content Blues 