Tag: puzzles
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Customized Google
Once upon a time in the early days of the intertubes, like last year, you and I could Google the same phrase and get the same results. As we continue down the path of Minority Report where every advertisement ever is customized for our interests and needs of that moment, Google is not so simple…
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It’s a Code!
Every once in awhile I’m in the mood to write a conspiracy thriller story. So I’m updating a website to a new edition. The editor gives me chapter summaries in a Word doc, which implies they’re all new. But they’re not. Most of them are identical to the previous edition. BUT not all of them…
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Oh, you’re a writer?
I stopped telling people I write fantasy unless they directly ask what I write. Even then, they get that masked look on their face like they’re trying their damndest to hide their disdain. That or they had a sudden bout of diarrhea they were fending off. Any more, really, I don’t like telling people I’m…
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I’ll Make a Bajillion Dollars!
So, as we all know, the reason there is still resistance to the ebook is because some people worry about losing their pretension. How can one prove that one is better than those around one if they cannot see that the book one is reading is clearly far beyond the reading level of everyone else…
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Pre-Ponderance
This isn’t a fully formed story idea, but something I wanted to write down for later. Today is my birthday (and if I weren’t so tired, I had a completely different post I wanted to make but now I’m just going to go watch “Repo Men” instead). For my birthday, I went up to the…
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Have Fun Storming the Castle
Current, non-syndicated television runs in 30 or 60 minute time slots. Of those slots, the actual program will run 20-22 minutes or 42-44 minutes respectively. Its this constraint that allows a writer–if he or she so wishes to apply herself–to know the plot, the outcome, and the bad guy (if you’re watching one of the…
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Another List!
Elizabeth Poole loves Westerns. I love Westerns! TOP FIVE WESTERNS! 1a. “The Outlaw Josey Wales” – Aside from giving me my namesake, this movie has a lot of things going for it. It was the first Western where all the Native Americans were played by Native Americans. They were also portrayed as the threat they…
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Filling in the Middle
I still haven’t started revision on THE TRIAD SOCIETY. Things keep cruising along with JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. One of my original reasons for getting TTS squared away was because I wanted to go to World Fantasy Con in Columbus. I’ve gone over the con website a dozen times. As con websites go, nothing on it has…