Category: Writing
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Futures Brought to Life, brought to life
That post on worldbuilding I wrote a little while back was fairly well received, which was gratifying—it’s always nice when people like a thing you wrote, of course, but it’s nicer still when the point you felt you were trying to make has been taken in the spirit in which you felt you were making…
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an apologia for worldbuilding
We need to have a chat about worldbuilding. (I’m mostly talking to the futures people, here, rather than the literature people… but the latter may find it of interest anyway, so please stick around!) Your man Dré “Daily Design Fiction” Labre posted a little thing about the movie After Yang (which I have not seen).…
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how you write is what it’s for
Mike Harrison’s anti-memoir managed to be everything you thought it might be, but nothing at all like what you expected; that negating prefix to the generic category is an obvious warning, a hockey-stick graph where the y axis represents lateness of style, but such graphs—as has been demonstrated—are easily misinterpreted, and/or renarrated to provide comfort…
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the pathology dwells not in the symptom but in the attempts to treat it
Some striking moments in this searingly honest essay by Grace E Lavery on their writing life. Firstly: A thing I’ve learned teaching graduate students—literally, some of the smartest people in the world—how to write: writing is, indeed, pathological, but the pathology dwells not in the symptom but in the attempts to treat it. People who…