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In Closing: Short Fiction Month
Matt Inman, the cartoonist behind the humor website The Oatmeal, once likened the creative process to breathing. In his analogy, he described the act of creative writing as constantly inhaling. It is important, yes, but sooner or later, one must stop to exhale. After spending the better part of three years writing my novel, Wide … Continue reading In Closing: Short Fiction Month
The Inheritors
One of my latest story ideas was inspired by recent comments from a member of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), suggesting that most intelligent aliens might be artificial life forms. That got me to thinking... From the engineering perspective, we organic life forms are rather arrestingly inefficient machines. So many redundant and useless systems, … Continue reading The Inheritors