Year: 2017
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The End
So…. If one were to listen to the news lately, one could be forgiven for thinking that the end is nigh. Between political strife, natural disasters, the fact that a man with the name Carrot Top has his own Las Vegas show…. And that’s just what’s going on in my native country. It’s repeated all…
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Monday Meanderings
I’ve been mulling over alternate history of late: how does one historical turning point change the shape of the world? Much fiction has been composed and spilled on the subject. It’s also a difficult thing to get right: any one …
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Song Styles
For your amusement, sympathy, and perhaps to snare an unsuspecting soul into the same trap that has tortured me for the last few days … for some reason, this song has been an earworm in the back of my brain:The Red Shoes – Kate BushThe song reference…
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What makes a story… a story?
I’ve spent a great deal of time wondering about the difference between “a story” and, “a sequence of events that happen to a character.” Those might appear to be synonyms, but they are not. A story — a good one, anyway — is more than just a slice of someone’s life. It does more for…
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Going Social
At last we have lift off for the Facebook page. Apologies for all who have been asking for some time. Why not follow me on Facebook and get all my updates and hot off the press breaking news at your fingertips? So next – Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus … Where will the fun end? The…
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Monday Meanderings
Years ago, I read Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters for a course. I was underwhelmed; it was a fairly good story, but nothing special. Admittedly, for me as a reader, it was more difficult to become engaged because the female lead was prob…
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Song Styles
Who Wants To Be A Hero? is still seeking an agent, which means that some typing is curtailed due to my perpetual crossing of fingers. I’ve spoken before about some of the character themesongs, and today I’d like to highlight Senashi, the god…
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Bitcoin: How to claim your BitcoinCash after the Hard Fork
Before the August 1st, 2017 hard fork, I moved all of my Bitcoins (BTC) to cold storage on various paper wallets, each protected by BIP0038. The fork itself was relatively uneventful, which is a testament to the technology underlying Bitcoin. The currency has survived, not because it has never yet been attacked, but rather because it…
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Monday Meanderings
I recently did a “Boot Camp” with the goal of writing a flash fiction or poetry piece, per day, for two weeks. I mostly concentrated on flash because that was what I “needed” for submission purposes, but I did finish four poems. (I partly s…
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Song Styles
I’ll be posting more from my Scylla and Charybdis playlist once I have a release date for the novel, but in the meantime, here’s a “general purpose” song on it that I really like simply because it’s imaginative and joyous:In The Arms Of The Milky …