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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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  • “Dunkirk,” The Movie

    This 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”

    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

    A 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

    A 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

    I’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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  • Beyond Creativity

    What is it we are actually doing by being creative?  That is, by making up a story such as a novel or a short story, or by producing a scientific […]

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  • 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

    Over 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

    In 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?

    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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