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Swimming against history
Today, multiple sites across the Internet, including WordPress and the Great Encyclopedia of Earthly Knowledge (G.E.E.K., or Wikipedia) are blacking themselves out to protest two pieces of legislation...
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Fun with words: Update your dictionary
There are too many fascinating words in English that don’t get used very often. Our vocabulary tends to be limited to the scope of our daily lives, and the mundane exchanges of forgettable pleasantry...
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This is your brain on digital media
Johnny Mnemonic features a pre-Matrix Keanu Reeves as a “futuristic” (I put the quotes around futuristic because many of the movie’s concepts have grown quite out-of-date) courier whose packages of...
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What’s the matter with Belarus?
Like many of my fellow WordPressians, I find the country view statistics page fascinating. It’s a bit surreal to see how wide your “reach” truly is (and a good reminder to not put anything on the web...
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Five things to hate about pop culture references in novels
Whether by coincidence or not, I’ve come across a few articles recently about the wisdom (or folly) of including snippets of song lyrics in your novel. The consensus seems to be that it’s a bad idea....
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Fill in the blanks
A few weeks ago I was chatting with another writer on Twitter; it was one of those fairly inconsequential, “let’s one-up each other with wisecracks” exchanges until something relatively innocuous...
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