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What happened to music? Yeah, I know I am entering the full ‘get off my lawn’ curmudgeonly territory – but honestly – I can’t say I remember many songs from this millennium. Or from some ten years before, actually. It … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Alma Alexander
You’ve all been here. You’ve ALL been here. You have a particular piece of software that you LIKE, that does the job that you need it to do, that functions perfectly, that you are used to, that you can actually … Continue reading
What is the most important thing in a story? That it contains characters that you can identify with, people who look like you, see the world like you? For far too many readers, that is what they expect from any … Continue reading
It’s a favorite panel topic at science fiction conventions – scratch around in any con’s program and some variation of “pantser or plotter?” will pop up, like you’re playing Whack-a-Mole. You’d think people have heard everything to be said about … Continue reading
Perhaps it is just an occupational hazard, but going into a house where a writer has lived and worked has a certain significance to me. Yes, I know that writing is a thing that can be done anywhere, and that … Continue reading
You’ve heard it, all too often. It’s “The War on Drugs”, “The War on Crime”, “The War on Cancer”, “The Culture War,” etc. The rhetoric is supposed to convey the importance of a particular “War” and how powerfully we are … Continue reading
Look, you must have heard about this by now. It’s been everywhere. This is just one of the many many articles that has appeared on the subject since the whole thing was announced. This is another. And I… am unsure … Continue reading
I have this nice bedside clock that re-sets itself to the correct time if there is a power outage, and it automatically adjusts for the twice-yearly time shifts of Daylight Savings Time (Fall Back, Spring Forward). There is only one … Continue reading
Any one of us who has ever done anything creative at all – and an unconscionable amount of people who do not-necessarily-creative-but- applicable- craft-or-business-stuff – know that particular siren call. “Oh, we LOVE [the area under discussion]. That’s why we … Continue reading
We learn history in the schoolroom by rote. We learn dead dates, what happened on exact days three and half centuries ago in worlds and societies which we cannot begin to imagine, let alone understand. Because histories are written by … Continue reading