Category: thinky thoughts
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RFSS
Back for a proper post! Hopefully a concise one, because thoughts on this subject have been bubbling around in my head since I got back from Germany and read the article, but I’m within spitting distance of the end of the revision of book 2 I’m currently on, so I also want to polish that…
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Science and fiction
A pause in my con preparations for a thinky post. I read this article this morning (courtesy of Jay Lake and Ken Scholes) and found it extremely interesting. It talks about how the brain tends to reject evidence to the contrary of what we already believe, no matter how compelling. I also found it refreshing…
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Moon and Star Wars
Before anyone asks: yes, I did see the moon last night. It was big and such. Mooooon. What I did for most of the afternoon yesterday was visit the Star Wars exhibit at the Pacific Science Center. In general, it was much like I expected: I’m never quite happy with movie exhibits because seeing the…
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Lessons learned
So I had an Adventure in car maintenance this weekend. My car had a headlight out, and I mistakenly got the wrong kind of bulb at first, only to find the right one wouldn’t light. I eventually got help and discovered that the reason the problem wasn’t fixed was that I’d carefully replaced a working…
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Name-dropping
I read this the other day, and it has been bubbling around in my head since then. Ignoring the second half of the article, which seems to be focused on novels being about the internet in our lives, and going back to the internet appearing in stories about other things, I’m not sure I agree…
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Art Museum
My friend and I went to the SAM (Seattle Art Museum) yesterday, in hopes of getting into the Picasso exhibit, but on arrival we found that they only had tickets for a timed entry five hours ahead. So we poked around the regular galleries instead since it had been a while since I’d seen those.…
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Metaphors
So, as promised, an answer to a question I get often: why write about werewolves? Why not make up my own creature? It’s usually non-writers asking this–a writer, I’d say “Because that’s not the story I want to tell” and they’d nod, but I’ve been a bit stuck when it comes to answering the question…