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Two Neatorama links: Ten Divinely Designed Churches Ten Most Amazing Temples in the World

A: Like a bunch of happy, smiling, normal people who just happen to be members of the SS at Auschwitz.

Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica, by Susie Bright. Susie Bright is one of the, um, seminal writers of erotic* fiction, editor of Herotica (lesbian erotica) and The Best American Erotica series as well as the author of a ton of other books (titles like Mommy’s Little Girl: On Sex, Motherhood, Porn, and Cherry Pie). She’s

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

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!

*Yet Another Personality Quiz. Via BD.

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

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.