Humanity had done it. Really done it: invented telepathy. But nobody called it that. Or even noticed, really. After all, it was just a shade of the mind-reading that had existed for centuries but that had only gone one way. If reading books was not mind reading, what was? Even better, with books you could […]
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A couple of weeks ago I was going through my old blog posts, and I saw a pattern that jolted me. I saw that I had written a lot about writing. Though I knew I had written frequently about writing, I never realized just how much. It seemed that the majority of my blog posts
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No one believes me when I tell them about the castles in the water. But it was long ago, and who can blame them? Not me. Not ever. But I am still going to tell the story. I have to. Pretend it is fiction if you want, but the story burns inside me with a
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During my early adolescence, I attended a strict Christian school where the science textbooks said on the first page that the Bible was the infallible word of God. No alternative theories to creationism were allowed to even be considered. When I became agnostic, the universe unfolded into something bigger and more uncertain than I had
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In a book on writing, Stephen King says the only “office” feature a writer needs to begin writing is a door to close – or at least some way to wall out interruptions and noise. Physical doors are easy enough to close, but technology has created different kinds of doors, and they are getting harder
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