The Fountain of Youth, El Dorado, and Creative Writing Classes
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Avoid. sentence. fragments
Mr Salter’s side of the conversation was limited to expressions of assent. When Lord Copper wa…
addendum and annotation for the book of that name,
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Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Parts of Speech!?
Our next example is related to the word-parsimony fallacy but even stupider. This is the notio…
The Cast; the Plot
Torkulweef say: We offered to introduce Tiresias, but he refused, for no better reason than that he …
Professor Sudo’s Questionable Quotations
What is truth? Who wants to know!? —Al Capone And more wit and dubious wisdom from the many voice…
Tiresias; an Apology of Sorts
Torkulweef say: We offered to introduce Tiresias, but he refused, for no better reason than that he …
Regarding user names and passwords
A best practice note from your friendly neighborhood web dude
Misusing Words for Fun and Profit
Good writers don’t want to use their words the way other people do.
Three Guys in a Bar
For a story to have what we consider a proper ending, it is not enough for the “real-life” events to…
The True Fairy Tale of the Niffum and the Legab
First of all, it happened in another universe, and on the outer fringes of another galaxy, and on an…
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Multi-Braned, Multi-Authored, gutbocket Sci Fi experiment
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Writer’s Diction
The first thing to consider is the difference between the diction of writers and civilians. Wr…
Saint Ollin and the Swamp Dragon
For Cllotillda, on the verge of marriage, had lost her beloved. Not exactly lost—in fact he had die…
The Word-Parsimony Fallacy
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed i…
Art, Interpretation, and Competition
You tell me a painting hung upside down in a museum for years and nobody noticed? I say, great! A ne…
Sometimes
Sometimes They tell you things you need to hear Sometimes They tell you things you shouldn’t hear
Oatey Biscuity Cookies for a Family of Five
View Post This oatmeal cookie recipe is adapted from the one on the Quaker Oats lid. I reduce …
Old Wine in New Bottles
To see imagery as mere ornament in a story is like seeing a man’s head as just a pedestal for his bo…
Bad Advice From a Good Writer
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it …
Stories and memoirs that span from the depression to the new millennium
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A Song For You (apologies to Leon Russell)
a song is a way to experience the world through new eyes.
The Passive Voice Speaks Out
Before the Internet, we had to go to political rallies or beer parlors to collect half-truths and bi…
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Music Theory Lesson 2:
The musical scale goes on forever in both directions, dipping lower at one end and rising higher at …
Music Theory Lesson 1; Middle C
If the magical system which is music is to be understandable, we have to have a "You Are Here" point…
The King of Euralia And The Fairy
An excerpt from A. A. Milne's delightful book Once On a Time, as published in full at the Esoteric …
A Batch of Peanut Butter Cookies in Two Quantities
This shortbread-like cookie recipe comes in a large and a jumbo size.
Why laughter is the best medicine.
Why laughter is the best medicine. is short description of how you can be in the timeless now.