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Category Archives: Writing
If a Critic Critiqued Science Papers as a Whole
My suspension of disbelief is thrown off almost immediately with these science papers. They exist in such exotic locales. For example these tall tales exist in: 1)Volcano caves buried under miles of ice on Antarctica, 2) Old mines, many miles … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Writing
Tagged 27 kilometer ring, build to the climax, critic, critique, exotic locales, first person, info dumps, miles below the Earth's surface, motivation, New York City, observatory, publishing offices, replication of science papers, Roger Zalazny, science papers, show don't tell, space, suspension of disbelief, tallest mountain, The Chronicles of Amber, the rain forest, unreliable narrator, volcanic caves under the ice, writing style
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The Web that Spiderman Weaves
Marvel comics swears that Spiderman’s webs dissolve which is why there are not crews to clean up Spiderman’s webslingings all over the city. But that is a simple answer for what I fear is a more complex problem. Let’s examine … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged 100 foot length of silk for each Spiderman swing, eight hours, huge amount of silk left from one patrol, knife can't cut through Spiderman's silk, Marvel, silk, silk could block building entrances, silk is very sticky, spider silk, Spiderman, Spiderman's silk dissolves, stick toddler's mouths shut, street cleaner would get gummed up, trap kids who tried to imitate Spiderman, web, webbing must last eight hours, would ruin cars
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Title Mining is Strong in Imagine Dragons
For their first album I wrote a post to show how every Imagine Dragons song on their first album had a title that had been used earlier. As a control, I compared it with a Kate Bush CD which also … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Writing
Tagged American Authors, Are Imagine Dragons title mining, Artists gave up on unique song titles many years ago, Believer, Bruce Springsteen, Dancing in the Dark, Evolve, gold, I Bet My Life, Imagine Dragon fans must love title mining, Imagine Dragons, jinx, Kate Bush, lost the pro title mining crowd, most album names are unique, Mouth of the River, Night Visions, Parachute Club, Rise Up, Sampson!, Shots, Smoke + Mirrors, sophomore, the Beatles, Thunder, title mining, Walking the Wire, Yesterday
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The 6 Basic Characters and the 5 Basic Settings
If you have delved into writing for any large degree you must have come across the idea (or the book) that there are seven basic plots. Now I am not going to tell you what these seven are (some have … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Politics, Writing
Tagged 2 basic plots, 5 basic settings, 6 basic characters, 7 basic plots, alien, comedy, divine places, Earth, free fall, godlike or near godlike, hard surfaces with gravity, human, jading youth, lesser magical creatures, robot or computer, tragedy, weird science fiction settings, writing
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Why Do Extreme Right Wing Authors Glorify the Left?
Robert A. Heinlein was an extreme right wing author with his assertion that he was libertarian. Some of you may correlate libertarians with liberals but there is no real connection. Libertarians largely believe that the government should provide a military … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged "buggers", communal, communism, don't want to be seen as too antisocial, Ender Series, Ender's Game, fundamental tenet of communism, gay marriage, Have Space Suit - Will Travel, Hive Queen, left wing, liberal, libertarian, Orson Scott Card, overthrowing the government, piggies, right wing, Robert A. Heinlein, the Tea Party, US, virus, Xenocide
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Dysing Dystopias II
Dystopias can largely be thought of as a series of setbacks for the protaganist, none of which are significantly overcome. This is the problem of the dystopia for me. Setbacks can be thought of as the machinery of plot. The … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged can lose to setbacks, can overcome setbacks, can turn a novella to a novel with more setbacks, Dystopia, machinery of plot, ministry of ongoing war, ministry of peace, new solutions are found in more positive fiction, protaganist, sensawunda, sensawunda science fiction, setbacks, writing dystopias is easier than writing more positive fiction
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Dysing Dystopias I
I don’t like dystopias in science fiction although I see how popular some of them are. I am young enough to have taken science fiction books (that’s right plural) in some of my English classes. I was disappointed with every … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science Fiction, SF Criticism, Writing
Tagged 1984, Cory Doctorow, Donald Trump, dystopias, English class, Handmaid's Tale, inciting to legislate badly, Little Brother, lobbyists, Oops I feel a dystopia coming on, politicians use dystopias as a guidebook, science fiction, sensawunda, the English establishment, UK
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Post Modern Anything is Impossible
There existed a time when the architecture and the art was hard to name. As such, the lazy, lazy people of this time called this style modern. And as the movement grew it was still called modern. Even as it … Continue reading
I’m a Nerd
I’m a nerd, that’s the word, That says I’m smart you turd, Your insult now is blurred, This is the same as saying honky, I’d have said right up your donkey, That’s your ass, sasafrass, When you have power you … Continue reading
Cats = Love
Some of you are taken aback that I made this equation knowing full well that cats are carnivores. Well, it gets even worse. I have actually seen cats playing the cat and mouse game. Well the cat is playing. It … Continue reading
Posted in Pets, Social Science, Writing
Tagged cat and mouse game, cat toys, cats, cats can only play for ten minutes, cats have speed, cats knead when settling down, cats show love by kneading with their claws, dogs have endurance, is a cat kneading or clawing when it pounces?, kittens breast feeding, Lennie, love, Of Mice and Men, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, To a Mouse
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