Category: Everything Else
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Do-Over
I just watched the latest post-apocalypse offering, the first episode of the television series Revolution. They’re giving us a future with lots of swords, crossbows, horses, bad-guy militias, and no electricity (though someone’s secretly holding out on that, so stay tuned). It got me thinking about some of the others in this ‘shit’s hit…
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The Wall
Let’s face it: being a writer is like having homework every day for the rest of your life, someone once said. Homework has gone from pencils and pens to typewriters to laptops, but a few things haven’t changed. One is the tyranny of the rectilinear blankness staring you in the face, whether it’s a…
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Muselair?
It’s one of those names fantasy writers like to use (often too much; I’m guilty of that) instead of a contemporary word—like study, office or library—that might break the spell, setting a reunion of old questing elves in Poughkeepsie, for instance, to mangle Ursula LeGuin’s well-known aphorism. It’s a place where you go to reflect…