A 2003 SF movie, Primer, explores what might happen in a quantum universe if a time travel machine were invented. AAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!! This is exactly what happens when you don’t write the novel when you first think of it. I’ve been pondering this since 2001! And, to add insult to injury, it looks like exactly the […]
Robert Jordan,* writer of the Wheel of Time series, died yesterday of a heart disease (cardiac amyloidosis). Until about book eight or so, I would reread the entire series — all over again — before tackling the next book, but, with each book approaching 1000 pages (at a minimum), I wore out. I had to
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The Department of Homeland Security will begin enforcing a law starting October 1st that anyone who wishes to leave the U.S. must have a passport. Am I missing something, or is this new? And how many people on the “no fly” list — or people who have names like people on the “no fly” list
The short-short silly story yours truly wrote, “Monkey Business,” is now up at Clevermag. Woot!
Dale asked: So I have a question. I haven’t done any creative writing in a looong time so I can’t really feel your pain when you’re talking about revising and editing a story. BUT, I’m curious why it’s such a painful process. Isn’t it like putting on the final, finishing touches on a project? Working
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If writing a first draft of a novel is like running a marathon, doing revisions is like defusing a nuclear bomb. While running a marathon.
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TV Tropes & Idioms, a website dedicated to listing all the tropes (the common story elements) used in TV, movies, comic books, anime, etc. (despite the site name). For example, here’s the entry on Cat Girls.
The infamous “torture manual,” The Manipulation of Human Behavior, is available for free download here. As one of the commenters says, “The more people who have it the harder it is to hide.” (via Futurismic.)
So there we were, trying to decide whether the plural of VIP was “very important persons” or “very important people,” when I ran into the following: person c.1225, from O.Fr. persone “human being” (12c., Fr. personne), from L. persona “human being,” originally “character in a drama, mask,” possibly borrowed from Etruscan phersu “mask.” This may
