Thursday, February 17, 2022

Viable Villains

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I've just finished reading Dean Koontz's latest fantasy thriller, QUICKSILVER, which I like better than a lot of his recent novels. ...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Karen S. Wiesner: Blurbs Series, Part 6: Series Branding

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  Writer's Craft Article by Karen S. Wiesner   Based on Writing Blurbs that Sizzle--And Sell! by Karen S. Wiesner   Blurbs Series, ...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Most Writers Are Writers

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This is the name of a page on the TV Tropes site, referring to the countless works of fiction with authors, playwrights, screenwriters, jour...
Sunday, February 06, 2022

Tow The Line

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It's the time of the season... the football season that is, when obscene sums of money are spent on advertisements. Some advertisements...
Friday, February 04, 2022

Karen S. Wiesner: Blurbs Series, Part 5: Branding and Blurbs

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  Writer's Craft Article by Karen S. Wiesner   Based on Writing Blurbs that Sizzle--And Sell! by Karen S. Wiesner   Blurbs Series, ...
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Thursday, February 03, 2022

Gender Pronouns

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Several years ago at a con session on the fantastic Pixar movie INSIDE OUT, starring personified emotions, someone in the audience asked why...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

Say Again?

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 "Say again" and "Come again" can be  synonymous, depending on the context. Only the first is a potential synonym for ...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Karen S. Wiesner: Blurbs Series, Part 4: When to Write Your Blurbs

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  Writer's Craft Article by Karen S. Wiesner   Based on Writing Blurbs that Sizzle--And Sell! by Karen S. Wiesner   Blurbs Series, ...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Creative Fakelore for Fun and Enlightenment

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The January-February 2022 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article by statistical ecologist Charles G. M. Paxton, narrating his exper...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

The Allowed Fool and the Law

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In Tudor England, the only relatively safe way to tell truth to power (to coin a phrase), was to be reliably and consistently amusing about ...