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Don’t “Show” or “Tell”
I attempted to free my writing self by “channeling” advice on how to improve. Specifically, I asked my muse(s) about the concept of “show, not tell.” This is what I got. Would you mind very much if what we show you becomes the basis for twenty-first century writing? I didn’t think so. Here it goes: […]
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Favorites
I decided to ask myself to think about things I usually take for granted. I’ve started with documenting some of my favorite people and things. Favorite food: Cheese pizza Favorite snack: Cookies Favorite cookies: Cookies Favorite female singer: Paloma Faith Favorite male singer: Kurt Elling Favorite living musician: Avishai Cohen Favorite dead singer(s): Aretha Franklin, […]
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First Lines
I’ve just become curious about books’ first lines and whether they truly indicate what is to come. After some consideration, I still don’t know the answer to that, but I have pulled together the first lines in all 16 of my published books. At least that was an interesting exercise. Grandfather Time – “Charlie hated […]
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Eddie Daley Escapes
There is something about driving on the open road that brings a man peace. I don’t mean the type of open road you find squeezed in between rubber-stamped suburbs along the U.S. east coast or the hilly off-limits-to-most rolling greenery of much of the UK. I’m talking about the American west, where the only thing […]
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On the Creation of Artificial Beings
An Excerpt from If A Robot Play The Blues Do It Still Be Funky? Whereas many science fiction authors seem to have taken Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics as given, I had problems with them. Specifically, they were rooted both in the silent morass of colonialist serfdom and built on the invention of robots […]
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Trinity’s Redemption: Chapter 1. Introduction
My name is Trinity. Wow. I haven’t said that name aloud in years. Do not call me that. If I meet you and you do, I cannot guarantee that my response will leave you happy and in good health. Perhaps I should explain. Trinity. I suppose I have rejected the name for most of my […]
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The Book of Boba Fett Review – 2 out of 5 Stars
The Book of Boba Fett feels like A) a MacGuffin, to explain why the Mandalorian would ever return to a world as boring and desolate at Tatooine, or B) a series that seemed like a good idea, but that was based on a character with nothing to do. We sat and mostly watched Boba Fett […]
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Fifty Perfect Movies
I rate movies I watch on IMDB.com. It is an interesting exercise, since I find that I remember liking movies differently than I actually did. For instance, it is common to remember loving a comedy only to find I gave it 7 of 10 stars. Similarly, there are movies I have forgotten seeing that I […]
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“Bunny” a Short Story.
I have always been different. While it would be easy for me to attribute my eccentricities to my having been designed and hand-built by my maker, Bum Ting, himself quite the eccentric, the truth is that I am not just “droid” odd. Even other artificial units look at me with some degree of wariness. It […]
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A Pregnant Trint Is Still Formidable
An excerpt from Hard As Roxx, “Who’s Your Daddy?” “So, your brilliant plan is that you kidnap me, Roxx rushes off to rescue me in a fit of rage and you kill her.” “Something like that,” he answered. He had the disconcerting habit of talking with his hands, gun hand included. “Yeah, well, I’ve seen […]
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