Tag Archives: Writing

Writing: Three reasons to support my Patreon

I now have a Patreon, mostly focused on writing. Here’s a link to my latest post about why you should support it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/three-reasons-to-8367783 Continue reading

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Writing: Write!

It turns out a lot of people, myself included, like to call themselves writers. But the secret to being a writer, as it turns out, isn’t in the name but in the doing. As a creative person, I find it’s easy to get lost in the notion of creativity. I dream things. I imagine things. […] Continue reading

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Writing: My NaNoWriMo 2016 review

Or, so you wrote 50,000 words. Now what? I am being honest when I say how easy NaNoWriMo was for me this year. Of course, saying it was easy is a relative claim, but the fact is that this latest 50,000 words came out with less struggle than I have ever experienced writing anything long or […] Continue reading

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Writing: Dear scientists: please stop ruining science fiction

There is an aspect to science fiction some members of the scientific world seem to have forgotten about: most often, science fiction is speculative fiction. That is, it is not always a story about what is, or even what we imagine could be, but rather a story about what might happen if something was. I […] Continue reading

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Writing: Done before it started: a NaNoWriMo cautionary tale

I had a great idea for NaNoWriMo this year, one I conceived of months ago and have thought about a lot since then. Unfortunately, thinking is all I did about it, with the result being that my attempt at writing 50,000 words in 30 days died almost before it began. There is something of a […] Continue reading

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