My son is into artificial intelligence, which is a good thing because as a parent, I sometimes fear he lacks commonsense intelligence. Just a joke! Actually I am quite proud of my son. But like most younger people, he fears I have not yet embraced all the potential […]
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Being a writer is one of the greatest jobs in the world. You get to be your own boss (most of the time), you get to set your own schedule, you get to pick your own workspace, you get to define your own work procedures, and you get to determine your own pay (sort
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One of the fun things writers get to do is creating characters. While we have to accept the people around us in the real world, in our fictional worlds, we can create any character we want. We can make them as good as we want, or as evil as we can imagine. In most
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When I was younger – much younger – I had the pleasure of consulting to McGraw-Hill Publishing. The client wanted to make their editors more productive. More productive editors meant more books published and obviously more books published meant more profits for McGraw-Hill. I’m not
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Although I’ve been writing most of my life, school, work, and family often interfered with some of the requirements of becoming an effective writer. One of the main requirements is having a dedicated effort to write, if not every day, at least as often as possible. Life gets in the
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I usually try to keep politics out of my stories. By politics, I am usually referring to current political issues regarding policy issues. Unfortunately, politics often now includes social issues that go beyond justice, civil liberties, or the use of tax revenues. While some of these social issues
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