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November 11, 2009 09:24 AM EST --
I write science fiction, so world-building is a huge part of writing for me. In science fiction, the world of the characters--the society and technology they are surrounded by is often almost as . . .
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September 11, 2009 01:51 PM EDT --
My stepdaughter dated a guy back in high school who seemed like almost the ideal guy: smart, good looking, athletic, and a lot of fun to be around. With all of that, there had to be a catch, and . . .
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June 22, 2009 06:40 PM EDT --
I've been following events in Iran as best I can, which isn't particularly well given the censorship and the wild rumors. My take on it is that several factions in the regime are trying to take advantage . . .
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April 21, 2009 04:00 PM EDT --
This past weekend I went to the three and a half day High Tension Writing Workshop by Donald Maass, a literary agent and author of Writing The Breakout Novel. I'm still kind of processing . . .
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April 09, 2009 08:51 AM EDT --
Here's an interesting new study on Global Warming. It doesn't fit neatly into the skeptics versus believers debate, but it does add a significant new perspective.
From ScienceDigest" . . .
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April 07, 2009 08:36 AM EDT --
Back in January I got a nasty computer virus. I wrote an account of my struggle to get rid of the thing shortly after I got it out of the system. Apparently this virus is still going around . . .
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April 07, 2009 01:26 AM EDT --
This is a string of comments that were deleted from a wombat post back in January of 2009. I saved the thread before it was deleted and figured that for historical reasons it should probably be . . .
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March 18, 2009 06:52 PM EDT --
You've probably already figured this out if you've looked at the writing market lately, but the market is beyond saturated with new would-be writers. Agents are getting 200+ novel manuscripts . . .
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February 07, 2009 10:13 PM EST --
I'm going to try to do the same thing here that I did in the slushpile contest. Here are links to all of the entries so far in alphabetical order by title. As ken posts new entries . . .
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January 28, 2009 05:01 PM EST --
July 18 cont’d I have been told that there 20,000 inhabitants in the valley, The Mormons believe everything that Brigham Young says and will do anything he tells them to. Also, that he is an inspired . . .
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January 28, 2009 12:04 AM EST --
Note: There is a brief unfavorable mention of Brigham Young in this section which may be somewhat offensive to Mormons. Since this is a historical document I left it in of course, but . . .
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January 27, 2009 02:56 PM EST --
May 15 : Made about 10 miles today. Followed up the Lou Forded the stream without accident after waiting abo, hour or more to find a shallow place, This stream is about 50 rods wide interspersed . . .
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January 25, 2009 10:45 PM EST --
One of my wife's GreatGreat (and probably another couple of Greats) Grandfathers was on a wagon train to California during the gold rush. He kept a diary of the trip, and copies of it have . . .
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January 23, 2009 03:03 PM EST --
Part one looked at how the filters that keep readers from having to sort through a glut of really bad writing are breaking down. Part two looked at how authors and readers can adapt to a world where . . .
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January 23, 2009 02:15 PM EST --
Part one looked at how the filters that keep readers from having to sort through a glut of really bad writing are breaking down. This section will look at how authors and readers can adapt to a . . .
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January 18, 2009 09:27 PM EST --
If you’ve been around aspiring writers much you know that a good percentage of them produce the writing equivalent of really bad karaoke. You also know that there are undiscovered gems out there. . . .
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December 23, 2008 08:25 AM EST --
Here is a list of alternate energy/solar news sites and blogs that should tell you more than you can possibly want to know about what's happening in the world of alternate energy. If you know . . .
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December 21, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
This is a brief excerpt from my Nanowrimo novel. For those of you who aren't familiar with NaNoWriMo, it's a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I . . .
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December 17, 2008 12:11 AM EST --
What if the Allies had not invaded Sicily? The US saw the Mediterranean as a distraction from the real path to victory, which they figured was a thrust through northern France into Germany. . . .
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December 16, 2008 03:44 PM EST --
When it comes right down to it, the history of solar energy for the last 30 years boils down to two trends: (1) A slow steady decline in prices for traditional crystalline solar cells, and . . .
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