Tag Archives: Writing

Speak Carefully, It May Be Forever

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Gene Stewart

Carl Sagan wrote, “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind … Continue reading →

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Ebook Bashing, Bashed

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Gene Stewart

Gatekeepers mean nothing but control of extruded fiction product. Are you shocked that most self-published stuff is crap? Why do you ignore the fact that most publisher crap is crap, too. Sturgeon’s Law, which merely rephrases the Bell Curve. Publishers … Continue reading →

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Plotting Courses, Charting Novels

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Gene Stewart

“Plotting Courses, Charting Novels” They call it a plot by analogy to nautical charts. The navigators plotted a course. They knew where they set out and where they wanted to go. They planned a reasonable route. Along the way, however, … Continue reading →

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Great Man’s Ghost

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Gene Stewart

“He loved everything up to a certain point, and then nothing was any good anymore.” – Hemingway’s younger brother, Leicester. /// In the war he did horrible things. Put det cord around a prisoner’s forehead and set it off. Vaporized … Continue reading →

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Writing Wars Walking Wounded

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Gene Stewart

a friend was angered when I described what vetting was. “And do they reciprocate?” I was asked, and I sat there realizing how incredibly little they reciprocate in any way whatsoever. “Then you’re being manipulated, used, and you’re doing their work for them. Works out great for them, doesn’t it?” Continue reading →

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Examples of Writing Through History

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…Chill-boy, fo Shizzle, y’all — I B out… Continue reading →

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Marks, Not Memory

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…that was the beginning of writing, and marks, and the end of memory… Continue reading →

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