Category Archives: Writing

Where I can talk about my fiction writing.

Broken Glass – new novel released (for free)

27th
Sep. × ’12
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I finally got round to finishing the final edits of Broken Glass, the final novel in the Minding Tomorrow trilogy. You can read it here, though it’s worth reading Minding Tomorrow and Combat first, or else it will make no sense. All my fiction is released for free under creative commons, so download the ebooks [...]

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Spoilers!

29th
Apr. × ’12
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I’d like to explain why I like to avoid spoilers. Emotions. My definition of art is something created by human agency with the intention of eliciting an emotional response from the viewer/reader/listener/participant/etc. This isn’t an unassailable definition, but as an artist and professional performer it’s a pretty handy guide. It also lets me enjoy art [...]

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Idea: every story is based on a true story.

25th
Feb. × ’12
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I recently read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and I noticed that so many of these fantastical stories from the 19th Century are frame stories. I love the idea that the author didn’t make up these stories, but received a manuscript and was just passing it along (Connecticut Yankee), or it happened to [...]

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New fiction – Get that rat off my face!

13th
Jan. × ’12
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I just published a new science fiction novella that I wrote last year! You can find it here: Get that rat off my face! It’s totally free, released under a creative commons license. Blurb about the story: thought experiment: noun an experiment carried out only in the imagination. But what if you wake up one [...]

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Elite Skeptics, Elitist Skeptics, and me.

29th
Oct. × ’11
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Many people get a lot of attention on the internet for saying or writing things like “Atheist and skeptics are just the same as religious people!” They go on to say things like “Skeptics like to take down the beliefs of others, but they never question their own beliefs.” Near the end of the rant, [...]

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