Thursday, October 29, 2020

Eggs and Equity

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Recently on a wildlife program in the PLANET EARTH series I viewed a segment about clownfish. In addition to their sexual mutability, which ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Interview with Larry Nemecek on STAR TREK LIVES!

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Interview with Larry Nemecek on  STAR TREK LIVES!  I was interviewed on this podcast episode by phone in June, 2020, and is about how...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

How The Cookie Crumbles

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Regrettably, this is not about an end to data-collecting "cookies".   It's about intellectual property esoterica.   For Fenwic...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Horror as a Coping Mechanism

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It comes as no surprise to me that a recent psychological study suggests horror fans may be uniquely well prepared to confront scary realiti...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Index to Verisimilitude vs Reality

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Index to  Verisimilitude vs Reality Here are blog posts about how to create fiction based on Reality using a similarity to reali...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

What's In A Name?

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Some words are widely misunderstood, others have changed their meaning over time, and some have been deemed too archaic to be worth recordin...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Living in the Moment

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Kameron Hurley's newest LOCUS column further discusses the quandary of living in these fraught times. Measuring Life in Keurig Cups ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Verisimilitude vs Reality Part 6 - Show Don't Tell Theme

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Verisimilitude vs Reality Part 6 Show Don't Tell Theme   Previous parts in Verisimilitude vs Reality Part 1 https://aliendjinn...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

No Old Chestnuts

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 Titles matter. Originally, this short article was to be "Autumn Opportunities", then "Chestnuts" but "Chestnuts...
Thursday, October 08, 2020

Stubborn Skepticism Versus Indiscriminate Gullibility

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Working on a paranormal romance novella, I'm presently dealing with a recurrent problem in fiction of the fantastic: How long should a c...
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Soul Mates and the HEA, Real or Fantasy, Part 11 - Soulmates Explained

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Soul Mates and the HEA, Real or Fantasy Part 11 Soulmates Explained Previous parts in this series are indexed at: https://aliendjin...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

Piracy, the Photographer, and the Photographer's Models

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I found Mitchel Gray in the front matter of Men's Health Magazine in 1994. At least, I found his name in very small print, in the credit...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

Why Do You Read a Book?

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This question isn't meant in a philosophical or literary-critical sense. Rather, why do readers choose to spend time and often money on ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Verisimilitude VS Reality Part 5 - So What Exactly is Happiness

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Verisimilitude VS Reality Part 5 So What Exactly is Happiness   Previous entries in this blog series: Part 1 https://aliendjinnro...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Go-To

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Is October a "Go To" month?   Savvy authors is running a pitchfest in October https://savvyauthors.com/41740-2/ If you don't h...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Self-Aware Cells?

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The September-October issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER reviewed a book called THE FIRST MINDS: CATERPILLARS, 'KARYOTES, AND CONSCIOUSNESS, by...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Verisimilitude VS Reality - Part 4 - Story Arc and the Fiction Delivery System

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Verisimilitude VS Reality Part 4 Story Arc and the Fiction Delivery System  Previous parts in the Verisimilitude VS Reality series a...