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  • Sci-fi Worldbuilding: Anthropology

    I just got back from the 2018 edition of the Pike’s Peak Writers Conference, (#PPWC2018) and had a great time.  As usual.  Lots of good sessions on many different aspects […]

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  • Tension And Conflict In Writing X 2

    During the past year (2017) I published on this blog two entries about tension and conflict in writing.  If you’re a writer at almost any phase of your career, you’ve certainly […]

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  • Fees–Great And Small

    Over the past several months (late 2017 and early 2018), I’ve sent out several short stories to literary magazines around the country.  Some submissions were simply in consideration for publication, […]

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  • How Does He Do It?

    As a science fiction writer, I usually find in necessary to keep up with much of the ground-breaking work that goes on in the fields of astronomy and particle physics and […]

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  • Notes And Commentary, Part 2

    Here are a few commentaries and observations designed to fill this space with words.  These are especially directed toward those of my readers who are writers. Which of the two […]

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  • Writers and Paper

    I’m curious.  What will writers do without paper? In our growing environmentally conscious society, the reduction of paper in the workplace has already begun.  We’re supposed to reduce the amount […]

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  • The Power Of Words

    During this Christmas season, I listen—along with everybody else—to all the Christmas music that’s played on the radio and at the malls, and as always it brings back memories of all […]

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  • Politics and Apollo

    A few days ago I watched a documentary on PBS entitled “First Man On The Moon,” about Neil Armstrong, the first human to step onto the surface of the moon (and, […]

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  • Some Random Observations

    In this blog posting, I just want to make a few observations on a couple of aspects of writing.  To wit: First, I stopped at a  local Barnes and Noble […]

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  • Books And Marketing–Where Are We Going?

    In a short news report I read a few days ago, Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Studios, is quoted as saying, “I’ve come to believe that the marketing […]

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  • The Writer And The App

    The November, 2017, issue of The Writer contains a couple of articles about apps for writers that can (potentially, at least) make the physical act of writing easier.  My first reaction when I […]

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  • Writing; Also Reading

    In the almost twenty years since I started writing fiction, I’ve noticed a change in the way I read that same genre.  I started my career as a scientist many, many years […]

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