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Daily Archives: May 4, 2010
Weird and Wonderful: The Minor Leagues
I know everyone loves minor league games but somehow, until a week ago, I missed that item on my life’s to do list. I’d been to exactly one Cubbies game and one Yankees game, but never a minor game. Are … Continue reading
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Tagged corny, Cubbies, farm team, Harrisburg Senators, Minor Leagues, Reading Phillies, Wurlitzer, Yankees
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Not Just Another Funny Forehead: Creating Alien Characters
All too often, television and films have depicted alien races as either shapeless blobs bent on wholesale destruction or else human actors with wrinkled noses or pointed ears. Alas, printed media have not proved immune to such generic and often … Continue reading
Posted in science fiction, Writers on Writing
Tagged aliens, characters, science fiction, the craft of writing
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