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“Dunkirk,” The Movie
Read more: “Dunkirk,” The MovieThis is not meant to be a review of the movie “Dunkirk.” I just want to use it to make a few observations about stories and writing. I saw “Dunkirk” […]
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“I Couldn’t Put It Down”
Read more: “I Couldn’t Put It Down”Have you ever read a book you liked so much you said to yourself (or to someone else), “I just couldn’t put it down”? You meant, of course, that you liked […]
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Ideas
Read more: IdeasA few days ago I watched the second half of a movie from 1974, called “The White Dawn,” about three whalers, two Caucasian and one African American (played by Warren […]
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Tension and Conflict
Read more: Tension and ConflictA couple of months ago (on May 7, 2017, to be exact) I posted a blog entry about what I called “The High Tension Of Life.” In this post I […]
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Melting Ice
Read more: Melting IceI’ve written occasionally on this blog about facts and figures I find it hard to conceive of, to imagine, or in today’s vernacular, to wrap my mind around. Some things are just […]
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Big Bang Or Big Bounce?
Read more: Big Bang Or Big Bounce?Back in February, 2017, an interesting article appeared in that month’s issue of Scientific American. Written by Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Abraham Loeb, the authors presented some evidence […]
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“Viruses” In The Environment
Read more: “Viruses” In The EnvironmentOver the past few weeks or so, I’ve noticed on Facebook several posts about how climate change has caused warming in the northern parts of the Earth, especially in northern […]
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The High Tension of Life
Read more: The High Tension of LifeIn this blog post I want to talk a little about putting tension and conflict into story telling. I’ve just completed reading two science fiction novels (written by the same author) in which […]
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The Final Revision?
Read more: The Final Revision?I’ve just finished a serious and rather lengthy revision of my first novel, a science fiction work of—in its final form—about 124,000 words. This revision was prompted by reading about and […]
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Where Are You?
Read more: Where Are You?The title of this post isn’t meant to ask where you are in a spatial location, but in terms of time. Where are you—where are we all, for that matter—in the […]
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The Caine Mutiny, A Critique
Read more: The Caine Mutiny, A CritiqueA few days ago I watched the movie “The Caine Mutiny,” for about the fourth or fifth time. A great movie, and a solid member of my Favorite Movies list. […]