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 ...
incidents. She’s seen an owl where there could not reasonably have been an owl and, knowing that owls must symbolize some sort of misfortune—screech and talons descending from what had seemed a balmy night sky—has found that she can go neither up nor down the stairs. And so, here ...
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 ...
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 Parseltongue (for non-Harry Potter fans, this is the language of snakes and serpents). So, whenever you’re contributing to a project’s doc, it helps to ...
Might not matter. Even if you don’t have an active Facebook, Instagram, Threads, or WhatsApp account, you could still be consenting to Meta’s new TOS if a friend or family member sends you a funny meme or Reel. Once you click that link to view Meta content, these new terms apply...
I’ve tried sitting down at the computer directly and writing, but that hasn’t worked so well for me. Instead, I have had some good luck writing messily, not even my best handwriting, just scribbles and scratches and erasures. And while the poem-ish things aren’t yet poems, I have...
The best "bad novel writing advice" articles culled from Novel Writing on Edge. The point isn't to axe grind, rather to warn writers about the many writer-crippling viruses that float about like asteroids of doom. And check out what Isabel says. OMG!
A swipe file is an easily accessible document that lists down bits of text that can be used in writing. Create one for your collection of English expressions, power words, and transition phrases to have a consistent blogging voice. 4. Check Google for the more popular variation ...
A swipe file is an easily accessible document that lists down bits of text that can be used in writing. Create one for your collection of English expressions, power words, and transition phrases to have a consistent blogging voice. 4. Check Google for the more popular variation ...
the accidental omission in writing or copying of one or more adjacent and similar letters, syllables, words, or lines, astagmefortagmeme. hieroglyphology the study of hieroglyphic writing, or a system employing a conventionalized pictographic script, esp. that used by the ancient Egyptians. —...