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Category Archives: Writing
Method Writing
We’ve all heard of method acting where the actor tries to fully inhabit the space of their character. So this is less about acting and more about just doing what your character would do. Presumably this gives a more realistic … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Writing
Tagged author tries to inhabit miliue, dangerous first degree murderers, dreams, drug induced trips, leans to more grotesque than supernatural, less about acting and more about doing, method acting, method fantasy writers, method horror writer, method literature writers, method murder mystery writers, method romance writer, method scifi writers, method writing, open marriage, slice of life fiction, STDs and protection, try to get abducted by aliens, Xanadu
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Fun With the Fine Arts
The fine arts are fun. Ask anybody (except those who bleed, perspire or cry for their art!). Just look at some of the words used to describe the fine arts. We’ll start off with music. Music is fun! Just look … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Humour, Music, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged action, all doctors and lawyers can be boring, Art, comedy, fun, gravitas of other disciplines being named after it, joking around, lies and fabrications, music, play, staid profession, starving artists, the fine arts, theatre cinema, visual art, writing fiction
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Frank Bombs
Lately frank bombs have been going off. You know, like the ones in the Wizard of Oz. When the scarecrow is told by the wizard that he had a brain all along, the tin man had a heart and the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Politics, Stage and Screen, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged brain, bravery, Britney Spears, Canada, conservatorship, cowardly lion, crossroads, dictator, Donald Trump, Framing Britney Spears, frank bomb, free Britney, Harry and Megan, heart, Hollywood actress, insurrection, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Kim Jong Un, L. Frank Baum, Lucky, mental health, nipplegate, politics or entertainment, Prince Phillip, she's learned to cope, the insurrection failed, the presidency, the scarecrow, the tin man, the wizard, The Wizard of Oz, Trump as dictator would let China become the world's biggest power
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This is a Work of Fiction
Janna was a broad consumer of books of fiction. So it was no surprise that she entered Epimenides Bookstore. What might have been surprising is how quickly she passed by the displays, not even reading a word. She was on … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Writing, Wry
Tagged book prices usually are the cover price or less, books, can a disclaimer affect price, can a disclaimer invalidate copyright, copyright military industrial complex, disclaimers of reality don't have much of a place in SF, Epimenides paradox, Fiction, historical fiction needs a strong disclaimer, out of season sale, sale, self referential paradoxes, This is a work of fiction
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Aliens are Humans? – Wait a Minute!
I’ve heard it said that all aliens in science fiction are really humans in disguise for getting the author’s point across about humanity. Apparently the prime directive about writing science fiction is that it must be human centred even when … Continue reading
Posted in Stage and Screen, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged 5 basic settings, aliens, aliens aren't just funny looking humans, aliens in Star Trek are usually humans with putty, alternate reality, animals, anything hard with gravity, are all planets really Earth?, compress my 6 kinds of character to one kind, compress the 5 settings into one, dystopias, free fall, godlike creatures, humans, humans and Vulcans almost certainly can't breed with each other, lesser magical creatures, robots or computers, science fiction, simpler universe but much more boring, Spock, Star Trek, the divine(heaven or hell), ustopias, Vulcans, weird and exotic settings (other astronomical objects
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What Can I Say About Reverse Skating?
To my mind, my namesake, science fiction writer Larry Niven, is the king of science fiction ideas. Not only are some of his ideas great, but he has a large amount of them. In the short story, “What Can You … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged AI robots, dangerous business, double the blade tracks, humans are too fragile, ideas, interesting conjectures, Larry Niven, new sports injury that doesn't displace humans, no slippage might injure the suit of armour skater, perpendicular blades so you can stop, reverse skating, science fiction, strap blocks of ice to feet and skate on blade tracks, suit of armor, suit of ice, suit of segmented ice, the king of science fiction ideas, turns and jumps, What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manholes?
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Don’t Grinch or Scrooge This Post
How many times have we heard it? Someone is acting non Christmassy and so we label them a grinch. Or someone is cheap with the amount of money spent on gifts so someone calls them a scrooge. Who would argue … Continue reading
Duke Minus
The Midas touch is the story of King Midas and how he got his wish for everything he touched to be turned to gold. This made Midas happy until he realized he would starve to death because he couldn’t eat … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged change things to silver, creature that could eat anything at all, Dionysius, divorce the Queen, Duke Minus, eats Minus and turns him into dukie, golden robot, kept Midas touch except for food and drink, King Midas, Midas would starve to death, Milos touch, nannies could raise babies, Prince Milos, silver lining, silver robot, the gold price would plummet because of Midas, the Midas touch, the Minus touch, turn things to dookie
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Irrational Bias in the Guardian
This recent Guardian article whines about today’s children not being able to use a pencil properly because all they do with their hands is press buttons and screens. But of course they had to make a large point of holding … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Social Science, Writing, Wry
Tagged "x"es and a check, 5 fingered grasp exercises 5 fingers, Bass, crokinole, dynamic sounds positive, dynamic tripod, dynamic tripod only exercises 3 fingers, fine motor skills, five fingered grasp, get a grip - The Guardian, grasp sounds negative, guitar, I can get likenesses of people while not using the dynamic tripod method, keyboards, musicians and precision games don't need the dynamic tripod method, neatness is probably in the wrist, people who hold their pen in other ways are just as fast and have as much stamina and are just as neat, recent Guardian article, The Guardian, today's children can't hold a pencil properly
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