In my head live a bunch of writing dichotomies I got from other people, and as roommates these dichotomies suck big time. To name a few of these asshole roommates: 1. Originality vs. execution. I wonder if originality isn't completely the wrong thing as phrased. Why should originality
(Complaining. This is not a complete thought. I expect to change my mind on this later.) I think about fiction genre in a few different ways: 1. A palette of tools. 2. A set of audience expectations. 3. A conversation between different authors commenting on, extending, and competing with each
There's a funny thing books sometimes do: They frame the same story they're telling as an important story inside the fictional world they are describing, by showing or telling how others have written about the events. I call the devices they use to do this frame
allRGB is a pretty cool website. It collects (and encourages the creation of) images that contain every 24-bit color exactly once. Why? Well, why not? It's completely pointless, a totally arbitrary constraint based on technical happenstance. That's what makes it delightful. See: Tunnel Man. Art. Lipograms.
I read Visakan Veerasamy's idea of "making your own desire paths" as a way of chewing the shadow by finding cheap ways to act on one's velleities. A few months back, I reread David Chapman's post Hunting the shadow, and at the