Daily Archives: November 16, 2011

Rules of the Written Road

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Kurt Vonnegut came up with eight rules for writing fiction, nicely referenced in an interview with Andrew O’Hagan, and noted there by O’Hagan as: “His rules for good writing are entirely bogus – he knew it, too – but they are not un-useful. Rules are just a bunch of things someone adorned into precepts while they were on the way to getting it wrong, but Vonnegut got it right now and then so we’d do well to listen.” Continue reading →


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Daylight Savings

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By Linda Nagata (cross-posted from Hahví.net) We don’t do daylight savings in Hawaii, and given that I haven’t lived in the mainland United States since I was nine, it was a new — and disorienting! — experience to undergo the … Continue reading →


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A Padawan’s Journal #43: George McFly, a Box of Books, and Me

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I’ve written a couple of blogs on when IT becomes real. The book, that is. The truth is that a book’s reality evolves, kind of like a child’s reality. Having given birth to both books and children, I can vouch … Continue reading →


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