Keeping his body completely still, Willie studied her. Lesley’s hair was a pale blond, falling down to an inch or two above her shoulders. The sunlight sculpted out her sharp cheekbones. The climate had not sagged her skin or smudged the line of her jaw, but fine lines sprouted from ...
4 months after writing that (you can see the draft I put online here –Excerpt from The Andromeda Effect) I stumbled across a second hand copy of Peter F. Hamilton’sThe Temporal Void. Of course, as it had the word ‘temporal’ in the title, it caught my eye, and I sat down to ...
A friend called me on Wednesday, just to check up on me because she thought the number of rejections I’ve received lately was getting me down (based on the fact that every time I get one I announce it on Twitter—it’s like a weird and obsessive confession thing). She wanted to ass...
Internet memes are rife with this sort of inappropriate violence. One student in my classes shared a piece based on a meme in which the narrator speaks about how fun it is to kill people. There is no context that explains his behavior, and no consequences ...
reporters Monday that he takes the time to provide each and every one of them with personalized false hope. "Every student is different, and even though there may be 30 of them per class, I feel it's important that I make enough time to sit down with them individually t...
Remember when I told you that I used to shy away from open source contributions due to thinking that you’d have to be a coding genius to do it? Well, the documentation played a role in that. It was bogged down by some much tech jargon that I felt was reading a spell in Parseltongu...
Higher education is an area of particular interest, specifically in Victoria, Australia, where all students spent most of the years 2020 and 2021 in a lockdown. This chapter presents a reflective autoethnographic account of two doctoral students' experiences of writing their theses during the COVID...
Create one by looking at your information sources, be it the news or social media, and jotting your thoughts down. 37. Learn one word per day Every day is a new opportunity to expand your vocabulary. You can refer toMerriam-Webster’s Word of the Dayto learn a new word you can incor...
Create one by looking at your information sources, be it the news or social media, and jotting your thoughts down. 37. Learn one word per day Every day is a new opportunity to expand your vocabulary. You can refer toMerriam-Webster’s Word of the Dayto learn a new word you can incor...
For instance, consider the word “aught”. If your character slams his fist down on the desk and yells, “Aught was paid!” the reader will deduce nothing was paid.Withoutthe slamming and yelling or other contextual details, your reader won’t know if all was paid or nothing was paid. ...