The craft of writing is not a precise set of rules but a messy, disordered process involving a million subjective decisions. I am not talking about grammar and punctuation which do require rules, or we end up with “I ate … Continue reading
Daily Archives: August 26, 2012
Someone once said that the writer-reader contract is more intimate than marriage: one is willing, even eager, to take into their head someone else’s thoughts. How much more intimate can you get? Is contract … Continue reading
Over the past few years I’ve been performing an interesting personal experiments. I’ve been rereading the books that were meaningful to me when I was young. This has included things like Cordwainer Smith’s Norstrilia, the works of Clifford Simak, John Brunner’s The Whole Man, Heinlein’s Stranger … Continue reading