Sunday, November 25, 2012

Google Mistakes And Conspiracy Theories As Inspiration

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According to Huffington Post articles, there are new (CIA-built?) islands that exist, but do not officially exist, and sandy islands that e...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Can Animals Be Persons?

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Here’s a provocative article on animal rights and the definition of “personhood”: When Does an Animal Count as a Person? As one of the q...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Guest Post Experiences From Twitter: RIXSHEP on Cons and RPG

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On #scifichat on twitter, in September, we set a topic for convention experiences for the following week, and one of the more interesting t...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Nature Wars

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Here’s an article about conflicts caused by the overlapping of our cities and suburbs with the territories of wild animals, an unintended c...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Chicon7 Con Report

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Chicon7 was the World Science Fiction Convention for 2012 held the old traditional time of Labor Day weekend. Here is a picture of my badg...
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Thursday, November 08, 2012

Why a Non-Human?

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That’s the title of one of the panels I’ll be on at this year’s Darkover con. The discussion topic inquires about the advantages and proble...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Dialogue Part 5: How To Write Liar Dialogue

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 Last week we reviewed several posts here on Dialogue.  http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/10/dialogue-parts-1-4-listed.html ...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Information vs. Data

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Did everybody have a fun and spooky Halloween? I'm pre-posting this on Sunday in case the Frankenstorm, aka Hurricane Sandy, knocks ou...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Index to Dialogue Posts

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Index to Posts on Dialogue Here are my blog posts on crafting Dialogue (which is very different from recording real speech). http://a...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Neanderthal Sapience?

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Some paleontologists now doubt that Neanderthals deliberately buried their dead, as has long been assumed. It’s suggested instead that the s...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Worldbuilding With Fire And Ice Part 9: POLITICS AND PERSPECTIVE

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This is Part 9 of a scattered series of writing lessons on applying observations of the world around you and your reader to creating a ficti...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

"Beauty and the Beast" Returns?

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Did anybody else watch the pilot of the remade BEAUTY AND THE BEAST series? While I wouldn’t dismiss a show on the basis of one episode, and...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Guest Post by Deborah Macgillivray - Wolf In Wolf's Clothing

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Here below is a Guest Post by a writer whose book I reviewed here a while ago, and still remember.  It's not just memorable, it's vi...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Varieties of Marriage

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Rereading MARRIAGE, A HISTORY, by Stephanie Coontz (author of the incisive study of so-called “traditional” families in the 50s and 60s, THE...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Worldbuilding with Fire And Ice Part 8: Point of View

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Here's the link to PART 7 of Worldbuilding with Fire And Ice: http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/08/worldbuilding-with-fire-a...
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