Hey kids. Did you like The Hunger Games but felt it needed less action, fewer love
triangles, more religion, more sexism, more inception, and 100 more pages of un-realized
plot potential? Then you’re going to
love Divergent!
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
On Character Flaws
Hey folks! I didn’t
get a post out last Sunday because I was too busy finishing my first and very rough draft of my novel. Hooray!
But I still wanted to post something for this week. So I figured I’d share with you something I
learned from the very early phases of my writing process. Something that was very difficult to learn
because so much advice I read actually pushed me away from the realization.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Things Zaq and Company are no Longer Allowed to do in an RPG: 540-590
541: Not allowed to use explosive
bombs while fighting onboard a wooden ship
542: Not allowed to take Favored Enemy:
Party Member.
543: Not allowed to accidentally
summon a hydra during an alchemy experiment
544: When accidentally summoning
a hydra during an alchemy experiment, I am not allowed to shunt the blame onto
an innocent bystander.
545: I have not been hired to
assassinate another party member
Sunday, June 22, 2014
About Teh Menz
So some crazy dude snapped and went on a violent rampage. He shot and stabbed several
people. Four men were killed. Two women were killed. There were twice as many male deaths as
female deaths. And this incident sparked
a ton of discussion about how horribly women have it in our society. A discussion that exploded during the Memorial
Day weekend.
Zaq is Baq!
Okay, I’ll admit it. This
blog basically died. Some of that had to
do with me working grad-school hours doing grad-school things, and some of it
had to do with me trying to write a fantasy novel while working grad-school
hours doing grad-school things. But I think
a lot of it had to do with me being less interested in fighting religion. And that
is because here in physics-grad-school-land, it’s the wildly religious who are
in the minority. So religion hasn’t been
a big eyesore in my life these days, and that means I’ve lost some of my
interest in fighting it.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Vacation
Hey guys, long time no post. I've been tying up some loose ends in my research and have just started a vacation. Expect another 2 to 3 weeks before the next post.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Conceptualize This
This is the first part of a series on concepts. In this series, I will talk about the way in
which people use and misuse concepts, as well as a few things you can do to
help aid in the appropriate use of your concepts. This series is ongoing (so stay tuned for
more!) To start, I’m going to outline
what I mean by ‘concept’ and why it is we have them.
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