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Continue reading →: Happy International Women’s Day!
Lance, you are not a woman. What are you possibly thinking writing a blog post about International Women’s Day on International Women’s Day? Bear with me for a moment. A few paragraphs, really. Three or four hundred words, tops. Okay, it’s not really a post about International Women’s Day, but…
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Continue reading →: SFS RevistedSomehow, I got away from the idea of Science Fiction Saturday. I’ve suggested more than once over my blogging years that I mostly can’t binge watch things like a lot of people seem to, unless it’s in extremely short bursts. I can do a six-episode season or series fairly quickly…
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Continue reading →: Writing Things Accomplished in February 2026The overall word count for February was substantially lower than January. Near the end of January, I switched the way I was approaching things to work on one major fiction project at a time and rotate through drafts (see this post). And as part of the longer-term adjustment process, I’ve…
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Continue reading →: The Agrippan TrilemmaAgrippa the Skeptic was a Greek philosopher who lived somewhere around the late 1st century CE. Attributed to Agrippa by the biographer Diogenes who lived a couple of hundred years later is the idea of the Agrippan Trilemma. (It’s apparently also known as the Münchhausen Trilemma, coined in the 1960s…
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Continue reading →: Happy Darwin Day!Marked on the anniversary of his birth, 12 February 1809. To borrow phrasing from the official International Darwin Day website (https://darwinday.org), it’s a day to “reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, and hunger for truth as embodied in Charles Darwin.” A scientist’s holiday,…
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Continue reading →: The Revised 2026 Writing Plan
So I stuck to the 2026 writing plan, which I’d actually started keeping the structure of in the middle of December while still on the winter break of my MSc year, all the way until the 11th of January. It was some time during that second weekend of the year…
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Continue reading →: “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
If you don’t recognize the quote, and I’m not sure how widely read the book it comes from might be eighty years after publication, I took it from Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor E. Frankl. It’s a short book, but a tough read for the first half. Not for…
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Continue reading →: I Finally Transcribed January’s PoetryAnd here’s the score. More than usual, and whether or not I’ll be able to carry it forward as a habit, there comes a time each evening when the screens all go off and if I want to write, it’s in a notebook of some kind. That usually means poetry.…
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Continue reading →: Writing things accomplished in January 2026, A Report
Or, things I worked on this month, the January 2026 edition. Plotting. In the background, I’ve been slowly doing character development and plotting of the first of five novels centered on Valkyr Station, an early warning hub maintaining a stationary north pole-ish point relative to the Sun, set three decades…
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Continue reading →: Series Writing
The idea of writing series appeals to me in a limited way. I have a general preference for things to have a definite beginning and ending. The forever series that lasts for as long as an author is alive and can keep getting contracts for it isn’t for me as…
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