If you've got momentum, keep it! Because once you give it up you will have to expend ten times the energy to get it back. How many times have I said "write every day?" Probably a lot, but, I am trying to write every day here... and it bears repeating! If you don't write tomorrow, …
Endless stories
There are so many books out there I'll never read. So many characters I'll never know, places I'll never imagine, idea's I'll never entertain. Imagining this infinite landscape of fiction gives me a sense of exploration and openness--anything-is-possible-ness--that I used to get from playing open world video games. The slight sadness that I'll never get to …
Time travel
The only way time travel could work is if the traveler had been completely removed from existence, and was only an observer looking in. Peering through a window, fast forwarding and rewinding time at will but forever separate from causality. If you could go everywhere, see everything--but interact with nothing... would it be worth it …
Inventing words
I just watched this TED talk by a man who makes up words to describe obscure emotional feelings such as the hunger for disaster, or the fear of achieving your goals... He describes words at one point as 'keys into people's minds.' That's very apt. Language in essence is a form of mind control. I …
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood: greed kills
I really enjoyed this novel. Yes, it's kind of a tired and overdone subject, but it was executed very well, with a lot of new elements. In the very near future, the world is dominated by corporations, who's privileged employees and their families live in compounds isolated from the 'plebelands' where the regular poor folks …
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