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Tag Archives: writing
Dear Edgar ~31 : The Colloquy of Monos and Una
There are (in this tale) broad themes in regards to life, death, the impermanence of existence, decay both moral and physical.
It really is a bundle of laughs…. Continue reading
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Occasional unattributed wisdoms
Stare long enough into the void, and your eyes go a little squiffy. Continue reading
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Researching Lovecraft
So here me, back up to my neck with old tentacle hugger, getting annoyed at him. Just like old times… thus here are a few ‘notables’ which will probably find the cutting room floor in the end but have amused me for one reason or another in the meantime. Continue reading
Dear Edgar 29 ~ A Descent into the Maelström
Author C Clark, The Playboy model, the whirlpool , and Edgar Alan Poe Continue reading
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Dialogues: What is beyond
I wrote a dialogue between two, well lets call them people, one of them certainly is. The other, well at this point I am not entirely sure what they are myself. Its the kind of random dialogue that ends up … Continue reading
Justice for Pluto
There are in fact seven dwarf planets (though three are listed as ‘possible dwarf planets’) among the many other Trans-Neptunian Objects that have been identified. Two of them even have moons. The main reason Pluto is recognized as a planet is because it was discovered first. Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Quaoar, Orcus, Sedna, and Gonggong all could lay equal claim to planethood.
The most plausible reason why the other TNO Dwarf-planets are not recognized as planets is I suspect because learning all nine planets in order is already too much for some people before you add another seven dwarf’s. Given Disney’s recent issues with that number of dwarfs this may prove wise… Continue reading
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Tales from the notepads
“And todays date is?”
Grunted laughter… “it matters not.”
“It matters not? We are in the third decade of third millennium, yet you speak of observing a battle in the first. By my reconning some fourteen hundred years ago.”
“it is still no dream.”
“What is it then, if not a dream?”
“A memory…” Continue reading
Research and the novel
Research is one of the most important aspects of the fiction writers toolbox, I am aware this may seem counterintuitive, after all its fiction. We just make it up don’t we? Well yes. But when ‘just making things up’ research is often far more important than you might imagine. Continue reading
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Dear Edgar 27: The Man of the Crowd
It was well said of a certain German book that “er lasst sich nicht lesen” –it does not permit itself to be read. There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their … Continue reading
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Dear Edgar 25 ~ Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling
One of the most lauded and successful novels of the early 1990’s was Trainspotting by Scottish writer Irvine Walsh. It is undoubtedly one of the best books I have never successfully read. The same can be said for Anthony Burgess … Continue reading
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