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  • Who Is A Person?

    Okay, now.  We’ve been told in recent months, if not in recent years, that we’re supposed to state our pronouns.  We’re supposed to tell everyone, and that includes everyone, what […]

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  • A Few More Thoughts On AI

    AI [Artificial Intelligence] is so hot these days (I’m writing this on 3/10/2024) I feel I have to comment on it.  Generally, I’m not too much in favor of writers […]

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  • Hooking The Reader

    One of the cardinal rules in writing, whether it be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, is that the writer is pretty much required to “hook” the reader right at […]

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  • Research And Novel Writing

    If you’re expecting this post to be about doing research for a novel you may have in the works, that’s nice and I applaud your incentive, but that’s not what […]

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  • Suspending Disbelief

    As a member of the science-fiction writing community, I have to deal with a phenomenon that probably comes up in our genre more often and much more strongly than in […]

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  • Six Grammar Miscues To Watch Out For

    I’m not a writer with many published works to my credit, but I have done a lot or reading—of books, articles, short stories, essays, even some poetry.  I’ve read most […]

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  • After You Press “Send”

    As an author of absolutely no repute whatsoever, I have a tendency to send out stories I have written to editors, agents, even magazines in an attempt to try and […]

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  • The Trauma Past

    In an article published in the New Yorker in 2022, Parul Sehgal talked about what he called the “trauma plot,” which uses the traumatic background of a character’s backstory as […]

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  • AI and Me

    I don’t know what I think about AI (“artificial intelligence” for the uninitiated).  Like any new advance in technology, especially technology of computers, it has the power to be useful […]

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  • A Few Thoughts For Late December

    I don’t usually blog about politics, but when it intersects with science and scientific matters, I may decide to make a few comments. Like today. First, a little about masks. […]

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