The ineffable Maria Popova: the Universe in verse
I find myself struggling to articulate the essence of Maria Popova’s writing – how it weaves together the delicate and the scientific, the thoughtful and ...
Tag: writing
Another time shift game – and my own take on it (story time!)
This article (quoted below) reminded me of another similar iPhone game back in the day. I think it was some sort of space game. But same concept, each time you ...
Time and again (a short story)
I woke just as soldiers entered the cabin and shot us where we lay. They left, and as the life seeped out of me the warship rammed us, the bow cleaving my boat ...
Frak you, ChatGPT – good writing is still good writing
Humans are really good at coming up with better ways to create things. And humans are also very good at pointing to anything new as the end of the world as they...
Pocket Universe
This is a chapter from a book I wrote during NanoWriMo 2011. The story was about folks who ‘shepherded’ marine mammals and fish (with the aid of dol...
Riffing off a rant about technology
I stumbled upon a brief rant on technology by Ursula LeGuin via The Prepared. Great stuff. Alas, I required a bit more than a tweet for me to riff off of it. &#...
A quick-ish sort of catch-up
OMG. I’ve been hankering to write here for the last few months, and finally, in the lull between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, I’ve run off to...
AIs, writing, and computational literature
A few months back, I stumbled upon Inkitt. Well, more like they stumbled upon me – they were looking for someone with a background in analytics and in wri...
Spam robot cut-up fiction
In one of my meanders through the web this weekend, I was reading about Jack Kerouac, which led to William S Burroughs, which led to Burroughs’ cut-up tec...
Do you set goals for the heck of it?
Last November, I participated in NaNoWriMo, a month long writing frenzy with the sole goal of writing 50,000 words (“quantity, not quality”). Not on...