velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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track changes to their lair and kill them
Techniques of revision and rewriting that involve distance from the earlier draft, whether figurative or literal. (Bonus material: why I hate track changes.)
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building up against the left wall
Some notes on an interview with hyperproductive sff author Adrian Tchaikovsky on his writing practice, with plenty of good stuff about worldbuilding.
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keep shuffling those ideas around
Factorial math just makes the tarot look even more magical, to be honest.
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on the valence of designed things
The context of a work of design tells the viewer something about the world that the design implies, and signals how seriously it should be taken.
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The Good Soldier
Some thoughts on the novel by Ford Madox Ford.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”