Thursday, September 03, 2020

Benford's Law

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On a Netflix series called CONNECTED, I recently watched an episode about Benford's Law, a theory new to me. Here's the Wikipedia ar...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Worldbuilding From Reality Part 14 - Ripping A Headline For Theme

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Worldbuilding From Reality Part 14 Ripping A Headline For Theme Previous entries in Worldbuilding From Reality are indexed here: h...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

In Sickness And In.... Space

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I'm having to wing it this morning. My email provider is down, and I cannot access my accumulated blog fodder in my draft folder. Inst...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Robot Caretakers

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Here's another article, long and detailed, about robot personal attendants for elderly people: Meet Your Robot Caretaker I was a lit...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Worldbuilding For Fantasy Part 1 - Paranormal Detectives

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Worldbuilding For Fantasy Part 1 Paranormal Detectives This Series on Worldbuilding for Fantasy is inspired by some very original w...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Green Death

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Two articles in the September/October "Special 40th Anniversary" issue of DISCOVER magazine inspired this post. One, by Emily Anth...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Surviving the Slow Apocalypse

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More about the "slow apocalypse" from Kameron Hurley this month: Of Men and Monsters Writing about police brutality, serial ha...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Theme-worldbuilding Integration Part 22 - Furnishing Your First Home

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Theme-worldbuilding Integration Part 22 Furnishing Your First Home  Theme-Worldbuilding Integration Posts are indexed at: https://...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

"Publish And Be Damned" (Of Sensational Defamation)

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Dishing the dirt does not always pay. Those who do not know History are doomed to repeat it. "Publish and be damned," is believe...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Monster Markers

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A recent post on Quora asked, "What are the traits of ghosts in your culture?" Musing on that topic, I first thought of our famili...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Reviews 56 - Winds of Wrath by Taylor Anderson

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Reviews 56 Winds of Wrath by Taylor Anderson Reviews haven't been indexed yet. In Reviews 53, 54, and 55 we scrutinized th...
Sunday, August 09, 2020

Giving A Shit. Or Not. (Of Word Choices, Word Order, And Grammar.)

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Grammar, word choice, and punctuation are a matter of courtesy. Poets and Yoda may turn sentences around, but the meaning is clear. Rules a...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Dislikable Characters

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What does it take to turn you off fictional characters so thoroughly you don't want to read about them? Even if I dislike some aspects o...
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Mysteries of Pacing Part 10 - Show Don't Tell Character Arc

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Mysteries of Pacing Part 10 Show Don't Tell Character Arc  Previous parts of Mysteries of Pacing are indexed at: https://alien...