Before I read a lot of scripts and stories from new writers, I never realized that English teachers have done a great disservice to young people learning to write. These instructors say, “Write what you know.” Poppycock.
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I’ve experienced about a half-century of life. In my guises as a writer and artist, I’ve also been a keen observer of how others have lived their lives. With the perspective that only time provides, I offer up three of the keys to getting through it all.
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Read more...Writers, especially beginning writers, need to study this list to help avoid cliched writing: Peter’s Evil Overlord List.
Read more...Couple Arrested After Refusing to Pay Tip at Pennsylvania Pub. The gratuity was mandatory for large parties, but what if the service stinks? …
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Science Fiction (SF and SF/F – Science Fiction and Fantasy) on television has never been an easy sell. If you look at the history of the medium, you find few SF/F entries among those series that had a good run. Mostly it’s a road littered with what-might-have-been-if-onlies.
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Life’s lessons are often hard won. Through a process of trial and error, we slowly learn those things that make us better people. If we are lucky and learn these lessons early enough, we can serve as an example to our children. If we are very lucky, we might even earn the pride of our own parents.
Read more...Oral reports in school were so much fun. The anxiety, sweats, shaking, fear, and stomach knots were constant companions. Now…I can stand in front of groups of people large and small with there being essentially no difference than if I was talking to you across a diner table. Here’s what I learned.
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Though I am rarely in a position to be forced to participate in this barbaric custom (I don’t go out much), the very idea of tipping…especially expected tipping…totally offends my way of thinking how a society should operate. What astonishes me is
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