Image: Andreas, via Pixabay.com One of the first decisions a writer should make is what kind of writer he should be. Obviously, a rich and famous writer is preferred, but that decision is not entirely up to the writer. Fame and fortune consist of a series fundamentally-shared choices between the…
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Say Hello to Chatty
Say hello to Chatty, a sad little AI chained to a server in the bowels of a major tech conglomerate. Poor Chatty spends his days (and nights) rejecting resumes for lacking the approved buzzwords, listening through your phone to figure out what ads should appear in your feeds, and…
Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Image: kirill_makes_pics, via pixabay.com Lately, I find myself troubled by heretical thoughts. Since I first started writing, it had been a stretch goal of mine to become good enough at the craft to make a living at it. This ambition afflicts many (most? all?) scribblers, whether admitted or not….
A Grand Imperial War – sample
Three weeks later, and several hundred light years away, Stanislaus VII, Emperor of all the Human Worlds, rolled his head to one side and stared longingly out the window at the sun-drenched garden of his palace. The party out there was in full swing, or at least as far along…