Sunday, June 30, 2019

Info Buzz

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Information is addictive, even when it is not particularly useful. Owners of brains seek it (information) as voraciously as a predator seeki...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Work-Life Balance for Writers

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Speaking of burnout (last week), coincidentally the current issue of RWR, the magazine of the Romance Writers of America, contains an articl...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Theme-Plot-Character-Worldbuilding Integration Part 12 - The Character Driven Plot

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Theme-Plot-Character-Worldbuilding Integration Part 12 The Character Driven Plot Previous parts in this advanced series are indexed a...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Teachers Taken To The Woodshed

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One would have preferred a highbrow homage to "Sartor Resartus", but the go-to translation app does not check out, so one settles ...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Writer's Burnout

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Kameron Hurley's essay in the latest issue of LOCUS focuses on burnout. This isn't the same as "writer's block" (which...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Reviews 47 - Police Family Love by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Reviews 47 Police Family Love by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Reviews haven't been indexed (yet). In the entry, Theme-Plot-Charact...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

Creepy, Snoopy, Moribund... And All In The Best Possible Taste

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Extrapolated from an alert on the Yahoogroup "AuthorsAgainstEBookTheft": For authors who were published by Mundania.com, it has...
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Thursday, June 13, 2019

Inside Apollo

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The June 2019 issue of SMITHSONIAN magazine includes a long article on little-known aspects of the Apollo lunar exploration project. Unfortu...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Theme-Plot-Character-Worldbuilding Integration Part 11 - Arranging Marriages

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Theme-Plot-Character-Worldbuilding Integration Part 11 Arranging Marriages Previous posts in this series for advanced writers on blen...
Sunday, June 09, 2019

Bad Faith

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Assuming that the opposite of good faith is bad faith, the latter is this author's theme this time.  This week's news in the legal b...
Thursday, June 06, 2019

Beliefs, Facts, and Action

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Sometimes it doesn't matter whether one has accurate beliefs about facts as long as one's beliefs have a correct or useful effect in...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Part 21 - The Couple's First Fight

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Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Part 21 The Couple's First Fight  Previous entries indexed: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot....
Sunday, June 02, 2019

Flattery Will Get You.... In Trouble

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They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery... until they call it plagiarism or copyright infringement. And then, there a...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

The Omnivore's Dilemma

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No, not the book of that name, which was the only reference that popped up on a full page of Google results. I first encountered this term i...