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The First Writer
Read more: The First WriterWho was the first writer? That is, who was the first person to set down on some surface—a rock, a leaf, a cave wall, in short, some surface that could reasonably retain the “writing” for at least a short period of time—a representation of an object that could be transferred to another person? It seems…
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A Slight Change
Read more: A Slight ChangeIf you are one of the few who used to read my blogsite on WordPress over the past few years, I have news for you. That site has been shut down as of yesterday, April 27, 2024. I set up that site on May 3, 2010, while I was living in Winston-Salem, NC, as a…
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Post-COVID, Part 2
Read more: Post-COVID, Part 2In my previous posting on this website, I discussed what we all need to do to help keep COVID in its place. Masking, fist bumps, not shaking hands, vaccination, and so forth. We have to treat COVID like we treat colds, influenza and other highly communicable diseases because it spreads so easily through the air,…
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Post-COVID
Read more: Post-COVIDAre we post-COVID yet? Are we really post-COVID? Not really. We may be past the major epidemic of COVID-19, but COVID is still with us. I’ve known personally or heard of several people in the past several months (late 2023 and into 2024) who have contracted COVID. The virus still circulates in the US, and…
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Who Is A Person?
Read more: 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 pronouns we want people to use when they aren’t using the very specific proper noun that includes our name, i.e., our given name and family…
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Time
Read more: TimeWhat is time? I’ve seen a few posts on the internet lately about “time.” Questions have been raised about whether time exists or not, and what it is, and if there is any substance to it. Some have suggested that time does not exist, that it is a figment of our imagination, or that we…
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Got A Pen?
Read more: Got A Pen?On and in my desk I have lots of ballpoint pens. I use pens a lot. To take notes at lectures, to put my thoughts down about all sorts of things, to lay out possible scenarios and outlines and plot lines and character sketches for upcoming stories and even novels, and to write out notes…
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Suspending Disbelief
Read more: Suspending DisbeliefAs 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 any other genre, that of the “suspension of disbelief.” This refers to the fact that in science fiction we write stories that utilize objects, phenomena,…
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Six Grammar Miscues To Watch Out For
Read more: Six Grammar Miscues To Watch Out ForI’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 every different kind of writing from published material to unpublished manuscripts from writers of all stages in their journey toward publication. As a result, I…