Sunday, September 01, 2019

Big, Big Theft

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Happy long Labor Day weekend! As some of us celebrate the honor and dignity of an honest day's hard work, and a workman's desire ...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Biology and Free Will

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The September issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC features a short piece titled "Why You Like What You Like." It explores the biological ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Index To Posts About Using Real World Headlines In Fiction

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Index To  Posts About  Using Real World Headlines In Fiction The best advice (ever) on involving "the media" in your fictio...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Scam And Comply.

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Victoria Strauss's  "Writer Beware" blog has a comprehensive list of scammers preying on writers. One should bookmark it. ht...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Pre-Human Civilizations?

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Could some other species have built a civilization on Earth long before we evolved? Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Worldbuilding From Reality Part 9 - Conquest In Romance

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Worldbuilding From Reality Part 9 Conquest In Romance by Jacqueline Lichtenberg   Previous parts in this series are indexed here...
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Sunday, August 18, 2019

Like This

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My heading needs punctuation, but whether it should be an exclamation mark, a question mark, a full stop, or ellipses... I leave it to the e...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Writing in Times of Anxiety

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Kameron Hurley's latest LOCUS column tackles the problem of writing through anxiety. The essay focuses mainly on public crises and disas...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Targeting a Readership Part 16, Plotters, Pantsers and Game of Thrones

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Targeting a Readership Part 16 Plotters, Pantsers and Game of Thrones Previous entries in this series are indexed at: https://alien...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Traps, Treats, Trickery, and Trolls

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This week, there's no theme... beyond writers' rights. It's a smorgasbord! Victoria Strauss posts on Writer Beware about an a...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

An Ethical Duty of Civility?

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The National Conference of State Legislatures publishes a magazine called (appropriately) the STATE LEGISLATURE MAGAZINE. Their July/August ...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Targeting A Readership Part 15 Why Readers Feel They Have Outgrown A Genre

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Targeting a Readership Part 15 Why Readers Feel They Have Outgrown A Genre by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts in this serie...
Sunday, August 04, 2019

Friendship Breach

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If you are a writer (or a racing driver -- according to RUSH), it helps to have friends. But... Writers tend to have thousands of friends ...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

3D-Printed Organs

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3D printing is now being used as an aid to cardiac surgery. The printers don't yet make actual replacement hearts. What they do is use i...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Targeting a Readership Part 14 - Readers Are A Moving Target

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Targeting a Readership Part 14 Readers Are A Moving Target (but so are you) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous posts in this se...