Category: Writing
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you trick yourself into thinking that it’s true
John Higgs, in his most recent newsletter, begins by mentioning a piece he wrote for The Big Issue proposing that the super-rich be put in prison, and comparing it to the political notion now known as limitarianism (which is pretty much the same idea, just without the prison bit). Typically modest, Higgs discounts any possibility…
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you can never step in the same blog twice
I think I’ve known this for a while, and I dare say it’s been obvious to many others for even longer, but I finally hit on a concise formulation of it, and wanted to get it down for my own benefit as much as for any other reason: The reason it’s hard to (re)start and…
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Brightbourne is a coy house
Coming up on halfway through Ian McDonald’s Hopeland, and I already have about a dozen quotes of similar size to this one that I might have held up, as I’m doing now, as a way of saying that is how you do it, that is great writing. The music accompanies them up the drive, heard…
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shelved
Well, would you look at that. For an assortment of reasons, but mostly happenstance, the vast majority of my fiction has been published in the US, and/or by fairly small presses. As such, I think this is the only time I’ve been able to just wander into a bookstore—my local bookstore, in this case, namely…
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workshoppin’
In uptown Malmö today, at the first of a sequence of six collaborative foresight workshops being run by local collective Media Evolution. I’m not here as a participant, however; rather, I’m here as a writer first and foremost. ME’s foresight cycles produce a book as their final output, and I’ll be writing a good chunk…