Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Trends and Counter-trends Part 1 - Character Arc

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Trends and Counter-trends Part 1 Character Arc   Here is something to watch for and think about.  Fitting your own stories into publ...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Small Things, BIg Trouble... Or The Potential Thereof

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"Little things please little minds..." the old proverb (attributed to Ovid) goes, and the riposte is, "while greater fools lo...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

About Lying

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The cover story of the June 2017 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC explores "Why We Lie." A pie chart of motives for lying or deception includes...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Index to Worldbuilding From Reality

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Index to Worldbuilding From Reality by Jacqueline Lichtenberg When a series gets long, I post an individual post listing the parts o...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Communication Rights; Reproduction Rights... Repeatedly Targeting Women With Smart Phones

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For those who think I am going to talk about SEX... I am not. I'm banging on about copyright, as is my wont. Copyright law gives autho...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Early Hominids in America

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Scientists have conjectured that a prehistoric site in San Diego County may prove relatives of early humans entered North America 130,000 ye...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Worldbuilding From Reality Part 7 - The Cord That Binds Our Hearts in Love

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Worldbuilding From Reality Part 7 The Cord That Binds Our Hearts in Love by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Here are previous posts in th...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Author Beware.... and Emoji have Rights, Too

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In the desperate scramble to promote ones own works, it is all too easy to trample other people's rights unawares. Beware of the rabbit ...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Optimistic Disaster Fiction

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In the current LOCUS, Cory Doctorow writes about his forthcoming novel WALKAWAY, which he labels a "utopian disaster novel." In a ...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Marketing Fiction in a Changing World Part 25 - Understanding the Shifting Fiction Market

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Marketing Fiction in a Changing World Part 25 Understanding the Shifting Fiction Market  by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous entri...
Sunday, May 07, 2017

All For Nothing

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Another week, another slew of bad news for creative people... By nature, this "alien romance" author is a cup's-half-full ty...
Thursday, May 04, 2017

RavenCon

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Last weekend I attended RavenCon in Williamsburg, Virginia, with my husband and youngest son. This was our first experience of that conventi...
Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Depiction Part 29 - Depicting The Global Village

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Depiction Part 29 Depicting The Global Village by Jacqueline Lichtenberg The index to previous posts in the Depiction series are here: ...