I've been a bit stuck for the past few days, but the next scene has come to me. Thanks muse! Now I feel the floodgates will open again soon... Sometimes I feel like (given my limited experience writing novels) the first 20 or 30% of writing is pulling things out of thin air. Then the …
Doers and preservers
I just listened to the section in Crime and Punishment featuring the talk about Raskolnikov's article. (very minor spoilers) The article talks about what Raskolnikov calls 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' people, and their differences. The ordinary people, he says, are happy to be ruled and told what to do, and have not many exciting or interesting …
Game of thrones, final season, ep 1
What a delicious banquet! Spoilers of course... I find it hilarious that after six seasons of building up the importance of the wall, and how its mankind's last defense against the night, and how critical it is to keep it armed and so on--the zombies just walk around it. (according to the Hound's vision, anyway) …
Birds will inherit the world
After humans are extinct, birds will be the next to conquer the world with their minds. We've already seen that ravens and crows can understand death, solve complex puzzles, and remember human faces--now it seems they can plan for the future at least as well as a human child. What would a world ruled by …
Flying through space and time
You're doing it while sitting there reading this. The earth moves, the solar system moves, the galaxy moves. All of them very fast. And time flies by. Probably it warps around us and slows or speeds relative to other planets and other galaxies, but always in one direction, sadly. Don't waste it!
Jonas David 