ideas | ideas
Nov.26.2011
In thinking about and developing "True Being"'s Parasam, I concluded several things.
1. The Parasam is artificial. Humanity helped develop it, along with nine other races who worked together as a consortium.
2. I'm still calculating its age but it's at least one million years old.
3. The Parasam...
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Nov.23.2011
This is about my process. I begin with several journals in which I try to capture every possible idea or observation that could become an epigram, essay or a chapter in a book. These are unrelated sketches that I might delete, post, or expand. Or they might become the germ of something...
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Nov.13.2011
Some rich people have a false sense of superiority because of their financial edge. This, I know very well because I see some struggling people developing a false sense of inferiority on account of their diminished financial status. Between these two groups of people stands a towering giant...
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Nov.05.2011
I'm a big advocate of not beginning a project--especially a big project--unless you know it has chance to succeed. Failure's okay; we learn from it. But writers and aspiring authors, like most people, have little time for failed project into which they invested hundreds of hours....
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Oct.31.2011
I can hear it. Although the writing world has gotten a bit quieter as we said goodbye to October dressed in a variety of garish and humorous Halloween costumes I hear the sound of distant typing. And I hear it getting louder…and louder…and louder! That’s the sound of the start of another Write...
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Sep.25.2011
Here's a book concept, free of charge, that IMHO needs the creative mind of an outstanding writer to turn it into a best-seller:
"Mary Mallon was an Irish immigrant in New York City in the early 1900s. She was by all accounts a talented cook. But Mallon also was an asymptomatic carrier of...
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Sep.24.2011
Exciting times in science. A planet was found orbiting two suns. A water giant was discovered. 600 plus other planets have been discovered. Now someone thinks they found particle that travels faster than light, subject to verification.
Maybe an FTL particle will be a cold fusion bust but these...
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Jul.14.2011
Here I am sitting in my workroom on a hot Mid East summer's day. I'm in the business, if a poet can be said to have a business, of refreshing many of my older poems. They were fine when I wrote them, containing worthy ideas, but now call for a breath of new life. I also have many ideas for new...
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Jun.30.2011
Readers like to ask writers “Where do you get your ideas?” It’s such a common question at book readings that I’ve noticed writers (on blogs) making fun of people who ask it. Yet it’s rather silly to ridicule someone for asking a question most writers can’t answer themselves.
So here’s my answer: I...
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Jun.16.2011
The teen volunteers of Be the Star You Are!® charity just launched our new outreach program, Express Yourself!™ as a safe place where teens and the young at heart can give voice to their creative talents and post them online. It's still a work in progress, but we are very excited about the...
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