The WordPress/JetPack writing prompt for today is: What’s a conspiracy theory you actually believe? I’d thought I might skip this […]
All events have an impact, some large, some small. I know with a prompt like this, the inclination is to change some big, historical event. I’m going to save one life.
Publishing is broken and there’s not enough time to fix it before my novel comes out. Two words keep coming to mind: Plan Accordingly. I wish I knew how.
In a secondary school I had to teach “Life Skills” classes that has no fixed curriculum, students had no exams, and every student passed simply by attending. I saw it as a chance to do lessons geared towards critical thinking.
Sometimes these writing prompts aggravate me. This one was one of them. Stories, even flawed ones, represent the story that the author chose to tell.
Living abroad (not tourism, which is heavily sanitized) will truly open your mind to what the world is, what makes us different, and what makes us all the same (more than you think).
Intellectually, no, I don’t believe everything happens for a reason. But emotionally, I feel that some things do happen for a reason. How do I reconcile that with my belief in free will? It’s a struggle. Read on…
The WordPress/JetPack writing prompt for today is:
Do you think we’re shaped more by our experiences or by who we are? And my answer, without taking an easy out, is both.
I’ve been thinking Sam Neill thoughts since learning of his passing. This has led me back to “Until The End of The World” (1991). The film is a good example of a William Gibson’s quote that I like, “The future is already here, it’s just not distributed evenly.”
Writers and authors tend to read a lot, I’ve been slowing down lately. But here are some of the books that I’ve read or re-read recently and would recommend.
