Author: PGR
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Supermassive
Two things happen in the middle of big projects, I’ve noticed. One of them is the mid-project motivational slump: that period where you hate the project, can’t see any point in completing the project other than to demostrate your incompetence and hubris to the world at large, and can’t imagine why you chose to start…
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It’s what we point to when we say “good”
OK, philosophy-of-literature time. Good buddy and shiny-domed death metal maven Ian Sales has an irate post reiterating his belief that the quality of any piece of literature can be assessed objectively. Go read it, it’s pretty brief. (Unlike this thing.) So, my instinctive response to this statement is always “NO WAI!!”, but I figured it’s…
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Petrichor
At thunder’s sullen grumble to the east the clouds roll in, their dirty woollen grey a blanket for a tramp. And you will say “That’s it, that smell! It has a name. At least I know I saw it on the internet a while ago, so it’s A Thing for sure, no Wikipedimeme!” There’ll be…
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Paracosmic
So, hello again. Mixed news from Planet Dissertation today: on the plus side, I’ve got a much better (working) title (more on this in a bit), and I’ve got nudging up to 3k of first draft done already; less rosy, I’ve bogged down badly over the last two days or so. Reasons for this are…