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Category Archives: Writing
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I’ve been hard at work over the last 2 weeks, revising the novel-in-progress (among other things*) and thought I’d write up a post describing what this looks like to the objective observer, namely, me reading a bunch of weird stuff … Continue reading
Posted in Brain Waves From Mars, By the Power of the Interweb!, Television, Writing
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Structure, Time, and Pacing
Continuing this blog’s decent into irrelevance by writing nothing but meandering posts about writing once every 2 or 3 weeks, I thought I’d share a discovery I’ve made while writing. When I set out to extract the corn kernels from … Continue reading
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What is This Novel About Anyway?
Good question, hypothetical reader (site stats say there’s at least 2 of you, so allow me to be authorial and put words in your mouth). What follows is me talking out loud as much as to the imaginary people I … Continue reading
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What’s Happening With the Novel-In-Progress
Shortly after the last post about the novel, I realized I had some plot issues that needed resolving before I could move into the 3rd act. I was surprised to find that, while I had a lot of good stuff, … Continue reading
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On Second Thought…
National Novel Writing Month started yesterday and while I have in the past made attempts at participating, I think it’s time for me to admit, more to myself than anyone else, that NaNoWriMo just isn’t for me. I’ve tried it … Continue reading
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What I’m Reading
Last week, I was floundering. I had just finished rereading The Hobbit, which is such a magnificent, sweet, fun adventure tale that it needed something comparable to ease me back to down to the mortal world of books that are … Continue reading
Fifty Shades of Perspective
Over at the New Statesmen, Laurie Penny writes in defense of Fifty Shades of Grey, and gets it all wrong: When you get down to it, the problem most people seem to have with Fifty Shades of Grey is that … Continue reading
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In Defense of Escapism
During a recent discussion over at Charlie Stross’ blog about genre fiction’s relationship to the Big Idea story, there was a sub-discussion about escapism and the role it plays in science fiction and fantasy. Naturally, a lot of science fiction … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, Writing, You keep using that word...
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A Black Knight on the Iron Throne
I’m a little late to the party on the discussion of race in Game of Thrones, but it took me a little while to figure out why I found the claims of racism disingenuous. There seems to be some concern … Continue reading
The Shape We’re In
Charlie Stross nails down some thoughts on Transhumanism/Singularity, and in the process builds a near perfect summation of all that’s wrong with it: There is a rottenness at the heart of the transhuman project, and the biggest symptom of it … Continue reading
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