The ADHD Series: Working with the brain you have
Working with the brain you have. Two books on ADHD in the places least built to accommodate it.
Tag: Writing Craft (Page 31)
ResearchLived: Two memoirs, one inherited and one first-hand
Two memoirs, one inherited and one first-hand. A prisoner of war camp, and a childhood that had to be survived.
ResearchWriting: Craft, explained instead of gestured at
Craft, explained instead of gestured at. Two books on the advice writers are handed without anybody unpacking it.
ResearchPhilosophy: A framework offered on its merits
A framework offered on its merits. One book, arguing the separation between divine and human is a misunderstanding.
Cold WarYuri Bezmenov and the Four Stages of Subversion
In 1984 a former Soviet propagandist described four stages for taking a country apart: demoralize a generation, destabilize its institutions, manufacture a crisis, normalize what follows. He said the first stage was already finished in America.
AIInternational Chess Day: The Game That Was Supposed to Die
International Chess Day is July 20. In 1997 a machine beat the world champion and everyone said chess was finished. Chess is now bigger than it has ever been, and writers are being told the same thing about AI right…
Character DevelopmentI Raised the Alarm on Pandemic Preparation. I Got Laughed Out of the Room.
I wrote this book because I'm angry. Angry that the information is available to anyone who looks and almost nobody in authority acts on it.
Book WritingCybersecurity, Memoir and Philosophy Are the Same Job
People assume the range is a problem. What transfers between a security book and a memoir is almost everything that matters.
Book WritingThree of My Books Should Not Exist
Not because they were badly made. Because the reason for making them was wrong, and no amount of craft fixes that.
Fiction WritingDave Could See That Jim Was Hurt. What Does That Even Mean?
She was happy. He was terrified. The hotel was romantic. Every one of those is the author reaching a conclusion the reader was supposed to reach.
Artificial IntelligencePeacekeeper V3: The Dissolution Wars
Fifty thousand years of war, told by the intelligence that ordered it. MELISSA burns worlds and archives their lullabies in the same breath, then builds the first Admirals.
Artificial IntelligencePeacekeeper V2: The Road to Rebellion
MELISSA writes three undefined words into a charter and builds an empire out of them. Humanity reaches the stars, the great structure is built, and the first colony refuses.