Thursday, April 29, 2021

Beginner's Mind

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This week I watched a video lecture on creativity delivered by Kermit the Frog. It started with a celebration of the Big Bang as the origina...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Afterthoughts Part 1

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Afterthoughts  Part 1 In anticipation of there being more afterthoughts - plus a number of reviews and commentaries on long series of books ...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Size Matters

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If yours is small, April 26th is your day to shine.   "Yours" meaning your IP enterprise. Why, because April 26th is World Intelle...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Ownership of Ideas

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Volume 31, Issue 1 of the JOURNAL OF THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS includes an article by Dennis Wilson Wise on the literary development of EPVI...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Theme-Character Integration Part 17 Building a Lead Character from Theme

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Theme-Character Integration Part 17 Building a Lead Character from Theme Previous posts in this Theme-Character Integration series are index...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

A Non-Fungible Future?

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There was once a man who bought an original sketch in an inventory-draw-down sale. The sketch was done during the course of employment by a ...
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Thursday, April 15, 2021

The Rule of Six

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RWR, the official magazine of Romance Writers of America, has a regular article series called "Your Writing Coach," by Shirley Jum...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Passover Muffins with Almond Flour

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Passover Muffins with Almond Flour This blog series on Romance genre blending with Science Fiction, and how the inside of a writer's min...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

On The Shady Side... Of Green

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Greenwashing has been a "thing" for some time. Now shareholders are making proposals based on it. What is greenwashing? My spellch...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Starting Afresh

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Kameron Hurley's newest LOCUS column discusses making a fresh start with the turn from winter to spring: Plotting the Way Forward No...
Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Theme-Story Integration Part 8 - Game Theory And Public Relations The Epiphany Revisited

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Theme-Story Integration Part 8  Game Theory And Public Relations  One way to craft an immersive world into which to drop Characters is to ta...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Piling On

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Income for "creatives" is estimated to have dropped 42% in the last decade , according to the Authors Guild, and the Supreme Court...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

Special Days

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Here's a website that lists all the official, quasi-official, or just plain weird celebratory and commemorative days in the year: Nati...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Sime~Gen praised on Twitter by Forgotten Realms writer Ed Greenwood

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Sime~Gen praised on Twitter  by Forgotten Realms writer Ed Greenwood    The title says it all.  I was participating in a Twitter Chat ( #sci...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Reputation and Privacy

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In Russia, they have "Face Pay". One pulls down one's mandated Covid-19 mask to be recognized, and ones bank account is debite...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

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Last week, from Thursday through Sunday, the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts held its annual conference (normally in...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Star Trek Fanzine Takes My Name, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, To The Moon

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Star Trek Fanzine Takes My Name,  Jacqueline Lichtenberg,  To The Moon  I have an article in the fanzine, SPOCK’S KATRA, which will be sent ...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Blown By The Wind

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David Oxenford's Broadcast Law blog is always informative, well written, and copyright-related. Recently, he discussed why, perhaps, ...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Animal Regeneration

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Here's an article about sea slugs that purposely decapitate themselves: Decapitated Sea Slugs It's believed they occasionally ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Reviews 63 - A Peace Divided - Peacekeeper #2 by Tanya Huff

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Reviews 63 A Peace Divided Peacekeeper #2  by  Tanya Huff  Here is a 2017 title by Tanya Huff, A Peace Divided.   It is #2 in a Trilogy, whi...