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Category Archives: Writing
Putting My Life Back Together; or, Starting Over on New Year’s Resolutions
Okay, don’t worry. I’m being over-dramatic with that title. My life is about as much in order as it can be in the current mess, and no one actually does their New Year’s resolutions, right? But you know what? I … Continue reading
The Logic of “The Gordian Paradox”
In my recent short story, “The Gordian Paradox,” a human attempts to defeat an evil artificial intelligence with a logical paradox: “This sentence is false.” However, instead of getting the AI stuck in a loop, the evil AI and the … Continue reading
Posted in math, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged fiction analysis, Liar Paradox, Logic, storytelling
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New Year’s Resolutions Update
At the end of last year, I made a post talking about my new year’s resolutions for 2020. Throughout 2019, I had discovered that I do much better with my resolutions if, instead of once a year, I revise them … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Writing
Tagged New Year's resolutions, writing and organizing
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Writing Advice: Scrivener
Disclaimer: not a sponsored post. I just really like Scrivener. It’s been a long time since I’ve given any proper writing advice on this blog, but I had one thing I wanted to tell you after seeing recent developments in … Continue reading
Posted in reviews, Writing
Tagged Scrivener, World Anvil, writing, writing advice
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How to Make New Year’s Resolutions that Work
Okay, I can’t really justify writing a headline like that. My new year’s resolutions for 2019 only sort of worked…But considering most new year’s resolutions fail by mid-February, I guess I’m doing better than most. So what’s my secret? It’s … Continue reading
Posted in General, Personal, Writing
Tagged advice, New Year's resolutions, writing advice
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New Year’s Resolutions, Part 3
As I’ve written before, back in January, I made several New Year’s resolutions, but I later wound up adjusting them every three months. All year, I’ve been trying to set goals for myself that are ambitious, but doable—particularly to improve … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Writing
Tagged advice, New Year's resolutions, writing and organizing
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New Year’s Resolutions, Part 2
Previous Post in this series. This year, I tried to be smarter about my New Year’s resolutions, after making just one resolution in 2018 and failing miserably. This year, I made five resolutions, but I tried to calibrate them to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Writing
Tagged advice, New Year's resolutions, writing and organizing
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On New Year’s Resolutions
Next post in this series. Okay, I know what you’re thinking. “What are you talking about? It’s the end of March!” Or maybe, “Is this an April Fool’s joke?” No, it isn’t. I want to talk about New Year’s resolutions … Continue reading
Posted in General, Personal, Writing
Tagged advice, New Year's resolutions, writing advice, writing and organizing
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State of the Blog
This won’t be a big speech or anything. I’ve leave that to certain people who enjoy making speeches on Tuesday. I just wanted to make a quick note because I’ve discovered something interesting about this blog. I’ve been maintaining this … Continue reading
Posted in General, Writing
Tagged keep writing, sotu, State of the Blog, State of the Union
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On Covering Science News
I feel like I’ve been pretty lax about talking about science news stories here. This blog is called Science Meets Fiction, but lately, when I have time to post at all, it only seems to be about fiction. Part of … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, Science, Writing
Tagged AAS233, Media, News, Ultima Flyby, Ultima Thule
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