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2024-03-17 13:04
The Red Cross won't take my blood. No matter how overdrawn the blood banks are, some blood is just too muddy to be accepted as a donation to those who desperately need a transfusion.As you m… Read More
2024-03-07 13:00
Confronted with yet another stretch of several rainy days in a row, I'm reminded of the passage in the New Testament that illustrates divine impartiality with the statement that God sends ra… Read More
2024-03-02 16:51
Do you sometimes see emails that appear to have come from yourself or your author name? Only when you hover your cursor over your name do you see that the email address is actually from an a… Read More
2024-02-29 13:00
Another post by Cory Doctorow about how good platforms go bad and, by extension, how the internet goes bad: Intermediation Why didn't the internet, as promised, "disintermediate the world"… Read More
2024-02-25 02:00
Some superstars get to trademark a word and buy themselves trouble, and others have to persevere for many years before their brand and image is shielded. As far as I know, no one has tr… Read More
2024-02-22 13:00
One of my publishers hosts weekly author chats. I recently read the transcript of a chat that warned against "overwhelming" the reader. Specifically, it discussed the hazard of overwhelming… Read More
2024-02-15 13:00
This week T. Kingfisher's new horror novel, WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT, was published. Sequel to WHAT MOVES THE DEAD (a retelling of "The Fall of the House of Usher"), it features the same narrato… Read More
2024-02-11 00:00
"Two wrongs don't make a right," directly contradicts "An eye for an eye", which notion of equal justice predates Exodus, and is thought to come from the ancient Mesopotamian Hammurabi's Cod… Read More
2024-02-08 13:00
Speaking of living one's life over again, have I mentioned Jo Walton's novel MY REAL CHILDREN before? Having reread it last week, I'm impressed anew by its unusual approach to alternate hist… Read More
2024-02-01 13:00
February 2 is almost upon us -- Groundhog Day, aka Imbolc (Celtic) or Candlemas (Christian). Here's a brief overview of its history: Imbolc This date constitutes one of the major seasonal… Read More
2024-01-29 14:53
Who cares if a late night comedian's voice-over says PERIOD and displays an exclamation point? How influential is that? It is thoroughly illiterate, and wrong... or is it, if a powerful gove… Read More
2024-01-25 13:00
Recently T. Kingfisher published the fourth book in her "Saint of Steel" series, PALADIN'S FAITH. (The others are PALADIN'S GRACE, PALADIN'S STRENGTH, and PALADIN'S HOPE.) Also in the same s… Read More
2024-01-21 15:06
I was planning to regurgitate some of the current discussions about AI, particularly with respect to copyright (this is, after all, a blog by and for authors), but I have just changed my tit… Read More
2024-01-18 13:00
I've recently finished reading an anthology called WEIRD TALES: 100 YEARS OF WEIRD, edited by Jonathan Maberry, current editor of "The Unique Magazine." As the subtitle implies, this book wa… Read More
2024-01-14 15:11
"Once..." is an odd and exciting word. It sets up expectations for what is to come next. Three possibilities come to mind.Once... Twice, as in "Once bitten, twice shy," the proverb, and the… Read More
2024-01-11 13:00
A robotic device called ElliQ, which functions as an AI "companion" for older people, is now available for purchase by the general public at a price of only $249.99 (plus a monthly subscript… Read More
2024-01-07 14:52
Just what we need for an AI-enhanced Happy New Year: AI-enhanced scams, data breaches involving everything a "population health technology company" has on millions of patients, trademark sca… Read More
2024-01-04 13:00
Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column analyzes AI as a "tech bubble." What Kind of Bubble Is AI? Although I had a vague idea of what economists mean by "bubble," I looked it up to make sure… Read More
2023-12-30 16:00
My topic for the day is "Pig Butchering", which is a brutal name for a type of scam. For my title (not to borrow someone else's title), I took Anatomy, with reference to meaning #6, Examinat… Read More
2023-12-28 13:00
January 1 is Public Domain Day for works still under copyright that were first released in 2028: Public Domain Day 2024 The article includes selected lists of books, plays, films, and musi… Read More
2023-12-24 02:30
If you do an internet search for images of Trolls, you are likely to find small, colorful creatures with wild hair, big toothy grins, and retrousse noses with large, wide nostrils.The nostri… Read More
2023-12-21 13:00
The solstice is upon us! There's hope that within a few weeks darkness will stop falling at 5 p.m. Happy winter holidays! It might seem natural that if people with arcane psychic talents ex… Read More
2023-12-17 10:55
It was a time when all women were men, at least on the stage. Boys and men played the female parts. The "nurses" and other character parts were the Mrs. Doubtfires of the Elizabethan and Jac… Read More
2023-12-14 13:00
Can a computer program read thoughts? An experimental project uses AI as a "brain decoder," in combination with brain scans, to "transcribe 'the gist' of what people are thinking, in what wa… Read More
2023-12-10 21:17
Punctuation is a matter of courtesy to ones reader. I believe that Sir Ernest Gowers wrote words to that effect in his influential "Plain Words". He was a powerful advocate for brevity and p… Read More
2023-12-07 13:00
Here's yet another list of the supposedly most intelligent nonhuman animals, or at least a selection of them: 11 of the World's Smartest Animals How is intelligence defined for purposes of… Read More
2023-12-03 12:40
What's In A Meme? In a fund-raising email, with the subject-line "Fight For The Memes", Christian Romero of the EFF Membership Team wrote of memes:"Support your right to have fun online.""De… Read More
2023-11-30 13:00
A study at the University of Kansas Medical Center "discovered that cats use nearly 300 distinct facial expressions to communicate with one another": Cats' Facial Expressions In contrast… Read More
2023-11-26 21:34
Now this is interesting if you happen to want to be legally correct while writing about a naughty astronaut.Per ardua ad astra is the motto of the British Royal Air Force, and means (roughly… Read More
2023-11-23 13:00
Happy American Thanksgiving! Ordinarily we spend the weekend after Turkey Day at ChessieCon, formerly Darkover Grand Council, which has traditionally occurred every Thanksgiving weekend for… Read More
2023-11-19 14:33
Whether the photo is of your wedding or is taken as you arrive at a glamorous event or awards ceremony (not that the latter two are mutually exclusive) or even if it the one-in-a-million pas… Read More
2023-11-16 13:00
In his latest LOCUS essay, Cory Doctorow discusses whether "all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly and irreversibly terrible – as the result of mora… Read More
2023-11-12 12:49
Today's earworm is not a song about Tattoos, but the lyrics include "I'm in tatters".Since the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decided that Andy Warhol's use of the Goldsmith ph… Read More
2023-11-09 13:00
That is, one adaptation in particular: CONJURE WIFE, by Fritz Leiber. It was first published as a magazine serial by UNKNOWN WORLDS in 1943, later revised and expanded for reprint in book fo… Read More
2023-11-02 12:00
I recently read a lavishly illustrated book about midwinter folklore, THE FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Jeff Belanger, featuring Krampus, the Yule Cat, Belsnickel, and many other Christmas-sea… Read More
2023-10-29 13:36
Did you ever glimpse an attractively grizzled former President of the United States, dancing barefoot on a beach with a lady who did not look like his famous first lady spouse, in an adverti… Read More
2023-10-26 12:00
The Hallmark channel has already begun its annual Countdown to Christmas movie marathon. For us (Episcopalians) the season runs from the first Sunday of Advent (early December) to Epiphany (… Read More
2023-10-22 22:10
"Say, say, say..."  Is that one word? Or is it three? Is that a quibble? Does it matter?It might. Some would say that the context matters very much, for instance as in how and why a nov… Read More
2023-10-19 12:00
I've been reading a book called WHEN THE "DEAD" ROSE IN BRITAIN, by Nicole C. Salomone. After a forty-page overview of the history of medicine in Europe and Britain, the author delves into "… Read More
2023-10-15 13:00
Enunciation matters.Enunciation is the art or skill or ability to pronounce words clearly. Some minor celebrities have it, and some don't. If, as an author, you are paying substantial prices… Read More
2023-10-12 12:00
Can creatures without brains think? Many of them can learn, so are they thinking? This article highlights several brainless life forms capable of learning: Organisms Without Brains Of cour… Read More
2023-10-05 12:00
The Horror Writers Association's monthly newsletter has started running a column about the treatment of mental illness in horror fiction -- how it's been done wrong in the past and how to do… Read More
2023-10-01 11:19
To the people who leave comments that get flagged by our host for moderation, thank you. Thank you for your support and for the very kind words.We read and appreciate all the comments, but w… Read More
2023-09-28 12:00
In fiction, is a sad conclusion more "realistic" than a happy one? "The belief seems to be that tragic or unhappy endings are 'real' and therefore 'worthy' while happy endings are an easy co… Read More
2023-09-24 14:06
Isn't "turpitude" sufficient? Isn't "moral turpitude" somewhat tautologous? In any case, it is all about when one's morals take a deep dive into unrighteousness, depravity, debauchery, liber… Read More
2023-09-21 12:00
Here's a WRITER'S DIGEST article about how an author might use ChatGPT as an aid to composition without actually having the program do the writing: Using AI to Develop Characters The autho… Read More
2023-09-16 15:50
One of my favourite quotes attributed to Voltaire is, "If you would converse with me, you must first define your terms." Of course, this exact wording is almost impossible to find, firs… Read More
2023-09-09 20:38
I am posting half a day early because there is a 24-hour, short story contest opening today run by Writers Weekly, a publisher and one of my favorite sources of "what-not-to-do" examples of… Read More
2023-09-07 12:00
I've started watching the second season of MY DAD THE BOUNTY HUNTER, a cartoon series on Netflix. Some dialogue passages reminded me of a few of my "pet peeves" concerning language too often… Read More
2023-09-02 21:24
Do you rock your blog? I'll get to reportage on the most interesting, copyright-related issue of the last two weeks, but first I should like to share a shout out to Karen Lange's article "8… Read More
2023-08-31 12:00
There's an essay on the WRITER'S DIGEST website called "The Importance of Character Growth in Fiction," by bestselling author Annie Rains: Importance of Character Growth She lists and disc… Read More
2023-08-27 12:53
There's "wrack and ruin", which means destruction and is somewhat tautologous (it says the same thing twice), and there is "rack and ruin" which means stretching torture and subsequent usele… Read More
Stop And Smell The Roses By Karen Wiesner
2023-08-25 11:00
Stop and Smell the Roses by Karen Wiesner A memorial for a dear friend who passed away recently, including some of my colored pencil flower artwork. A dear friend of mine passed away rece… Read More
2023-08-20 13:03
One really should not exploit someone's name for the joy of word play. But, I just did, so I apologize. It's four months until the Holiday Season, so it is high time for those-with-book… Read More
2023-08-17 12:00
The e-mail list for authors of one of my publishers had a fun discussion thread last week: What would your ideal writing day be like? I envy the kind of writing day some of those apparently… Read More
2023-08-13 19:18
Or for that matter, and this is my point, what is the price of a cup of coffee?If one is staying at a Best Western, or a Hampton Inn, the coffee flows freely all day (from industrial-sized t… Read More
2023-08-10 12:00
Nowadays a widely accepted piece of advice about writing fiction sternly rebukes any use of dialogue tags other than the simple, almost invisible word "said." No alternative verb choices suc… Read More
2023-08-06 13:29
When I was a Lower Sixth Former (penultimate year of school), I had an enormous pink rubber (by which I mean an eraser) bearing the printed legend, "I Never Make Big Misteaks". The misspelli… Read More
Medieval Art Celebration By Karen Wiesner
2023-08-04 11:00
Art by Karen WiesnerIn celebration of all things Medieval, a simplified black and white sketch I did in 2022 of the painting The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton (1901).@Karen Wiesnerhttp:/… Read More
2023-08-03 12:00
Watching the first few episodes of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, which takes place during Captain Christopher Pike's command of the Enterprise, started me thinking about the phenomenon of s… Read More
2023-07-27 12:00
Could runaway nanobots take over the planet? "Gray goo is a term used to describe a lifeless world completely occupied by self-replicating nanomaterials that have consumed the energy of all… Read More
2023-07-23 13:55
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association supports the National Writers Union's "Creators call for action on AI copyright exemptions", and shares the link to an article written by… Read More
2023-07-23 12:08
Well, this is embarrassing. Last week, I wrote ignorantly and speculatively about Mars. It turns out, per DISCOVER magazine, that Mars is thought to be very cold indeed, and the most similar… Read More
2023-07-20 12:00
Here's a very lucid essay from WRITER'S DIGEST about the differences between flat (two-dimensional) and round (three-dimensional) characters: Flat vs. Round It defines the two types with l… Read More
2023-07-17 12:06
Hmmm. It's the sound of human thought expressed in writing, but could also denote humming. This week, I read ten compendia of the legal blogs and could not find anything inspiring. Of course… Read More

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