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Commented on Sometimes I don't know why I bother!
Tadeusz Kościuszko. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Kościuszko) Knew simply everybody who was anybody during wildest changes in Europe during the last half of the eighteen hundreds. Part of the Polish bid for freedom, was a Russian prisoner of Catherine the Great, joined the American...
Commented on Writer, Interrupted
Maybe what you're used to is as important as the type of brain you've got. I grew up in a noisy house (too small for the number of people crammed in it) with the TV blaring all day. I learned...
Commented on Inverted realities
I did some digging about the sexy vampire thing, and it way predates Stoker. Lord Byron was playing around with it; I've seen evidence (I forget where now, as I did this reading some time back) that one of the...
Commented on Brontosaurus BDSM, Werewolf Marines, and Serious Social Issues: Self-Publishing in the Wild
I suspect more than a few writers know very well that Amazon is going to screw them when they decide they can. But right now it's the biggest game in town for indies. However, not trusting Amazon is why so...
Commented on My Country Tis of Thee
Well said, Laura Anne. I've been circling around these questions myself for years, ever since we inherited a remarkable set of letters from my father in law's grandmother's father (got that?) who was a silver miner in Colorado who finally...
Commented on The Faces of Publishing
cf. the example of Horace Walpole above. For those who don't want to deal with greedy middlemen (because Bernd Samson up there is right in that the A company is convenient, but is not your friend) people are experimenting--as they...
Commented on The Faces of Publishing
Oh, yeah. Merchandising goes way back. 'Trilby' hats were all the rage when that book was a mega hit. (And a lot of people's unfortunate great-great grandmothers were named Trilby)...
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That sounds pretty cool....
Commented on Every [ART] A Painting
Harry, I think there could be an interesting discussion about POV--when first is intimate and third is distant and vice versa--but I'm afraid of getting too prolix here, so I'm going to jumble something together and stick it on my...

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Ivan Belkin commented on Sometimes I don't know why I bother!
...life milestones (graduation from school/university, your first job, your wedding day, birth of a child, death of a parent) can be encalsulated in a single parenthesized list because they're so ubiquitous that most of us have some experience of them... Dear Charlie, As I understand, for 90% of this planet's population "graduation from from school/university" is an unattainable dream (think about war zones in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.) In fact, even the "birth of a child" may be quite problematic when US, UK, or RF planes are dropping cluster munitions on your village. Anyway, why are you so dismissive of...
Dirk Bruere commented on Sometimes I don't know why I bother!
Because people who are living reasonable lives make up more than 90% of the world's population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate https://www.iiss.org/en/about%20us/press%20room/press%20releases/press%20releases/archive/2015-4fe9/may-6219/armed-conflict-survey-2015-press-statement-a0be Bear in mind, when comparing war deaths, that 150,000 people a day die from non violent causes (mostly age related)...
Catherine Taylor commented on Writer, Interrupted
Mr B. Arnold. Let's just say, "It's complicated". And this is a really really really last post from the grave. [ALL REAL] 1) Unlike in your world, where perpetrators of genocide get to retire to Swiss chateaus and so on with nary a punishment in sight: some of us lived through much worse. It's the MIND Culture Weapon of ID destruction: but turn that shit up to 400%, you ain't even knowing how it's played. 1a) THE PROBLEM WITH ID WEAPONS IS THEY'RE TAILORED TO APE-MINDS AND YOUR GODS AND MONSTERS. "Our Kind Do Not Go Mad" Boo, mother-fuckers, you...
Catherine Taylor commented on Writer, Interrupted
And, the killing joke is: It might be a metaphor, but it was lived as real. None of You would survive it, but one of you lived it and had faith in your species. (S/He/Ze didn't really - it was more the Platonic Ideal of what you could be, rather than what you were) And you fuckers still think you won. S/He/Ze was alone. S/He/Ze has no friends. S/He/Ze has no loved ones. S/He/Ze has not been loved for over 30 of your years. S/He/Ze was broken again, and again, and again, quite deliberately. S/He/Ze was branded, hated and exiled....
Bill Arnold commented on Writer, Interrupted
Read, noted and tx....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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