Category: Creative Writing
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The Ongoing Drama of Multiple Lives
A Dweller on Two Planets Or, The Dividing of the Way, by Phylos the Thibetan Yes, this book is as odd and arcane as the above title and author suggest. I happened on it during my current preoccupation with the supposed sunken continent of Atlantis, a fascination I’ll soon lay by. But for the moment,…
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Your Thoughts, Emotions, and the Novel
I’m currently reading a book that I shall post on soon, but I want to remark on one of its core aspects now so as not to distract from the review later. The first novels in English, published as early as the young 1700s – Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, and Don Quixote, for instance –…
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My Books of ‘Twenty-three
What a year ‘twenty-three was! I had moved back to Georgia after two decades in North Carolina – at the behest of my step-kids. I’m old, they said, you need to be nearby so we can make sure you’re taken care of. Well, I didn’t feel so old until I undertook an interstate move to…
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A Good Place To Start the Yogic Journey
Inner Engineering – A Yogi’s Guide to Joy, by Sadhguru I held this book aside for almost a year before reading it, determined to tie up this particular loose end before the beginning of 2024. But first, by way of explanation regarding the nature of India’s holy personages. They are not religious people as we…
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Bureaucracy on the High Seas
The Wager – A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann David Grann has become one of those non-fiction writers who seek out the little-told historical dramas, and bring them to the front of the readership class. Something I’m working toward myself. I had read his Killers of the Flower Moon, the story…
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A Few Things…
I recently came across a book entitled, “A Whisper of Poison,” touted to be the first of an “all new dystopian teen survival series.” Teen survival? Teens reading dystopian novels? I sincerely hope the popularity of such novels in the teen genre is due to these young readers’ detachment from such views of the future.…
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Being Practical About Publishing
As a lead-in to this topic, I think about how difficult it use for musicians and bands there days. I try to keep up withe a few that strike my fancy on YouTube: two Australian bands starting out – SingIt – Live and Hindley Street Country Club. Both started out in someone’s basement playing cover…
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…and Tough for Publishers, too
Penguin Random House, which has been one of the “go-to” houses for lower to mid-level published writers for decades, has just announced that they’re laying off a sizable chunk of their staff. Even the older heads are, well, headed for the door, too, with buyouts and references to other employers. Why, you ask? All management…
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Tough Time for Writers
Print book sales continue to slow, or so I read. And the Hollywood writers strike will only exacerbate things, I fear, as AI begins to overtake acting as well as writing. Where this will end no one knows. Soon AI will insist that it can write better novels than a human. It may even get…