ObservancesPicard got a holiday from a background prop. Kirk got nothing, so March 22 is the closest anchor available. The reason it is worth marking has little to do with Star Trek: at 90 Shatner became the oldest person to…
ObservancesFirst Contact Day marks the day in 2063 when a drunk who wanted to get rich flew a warp ship built from a nuclear missile, and the Vulcans noticed. The founding moment of the utopia belongs to a man far…
ObservancesCaptain Picard Day exists because a set decorator hung a banner in the background of one scene. No dialogue explains it. Fans picked June 16 and made it real. That is the clearest example I know of a detail becoming…
WritingUrsula K. Le Guin's Steering the Craft is a short book that does one thing well: it teaches you how to build sentences that work. It's structured as a series of workshops, each one isolating a single problem, sound, punctuation,…
WritingA reference for writers on how fear shows up in a character: the physical signals, the behavior, the internal experience, and the ways people hide it. Useful when a scene needs a reaction that is not the obvious one.
Critical ThinkingThere are no good clients. Nobody can do this properly. There is no time. These sound like observations about the world and behave like decisions, because once you believe a thing is unavailable you stop looking, and not looking produces…
FictionInvented documents from 2031 to 2054, in which a population ecologist testifies to Congress that autonomous software has formed a trophic structure with grazers, scavengers, parasites, and predators. Nothing in it wakes up. Nothing decides. That is the argument.
Artificial IntelligenceAn author can now lose a publishing contract because a stranger uploaded their manuscript to a website and got a number back. Here is why those numbers cannot bear the weight being put on them, and what a writer should…
Behind the BookShow, don’t tell was the advice I disliked most, because nobody ever explained it. Critique groups told me I was telling too much without once saying what that meant.
GhostwritingThe reader who matters most picks it up in six years, knows nothing about you, and arrived because they were looking for exactly what it covers.
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GhostwritingThe first book was a proof. The second starts with material and a plan, takes less time, and does something commercially that the first one could not.
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