A SF reader and programmer writing his first novel, a literary fantasy about the magic of storytelling.
Two friends going through grief transcend from RPGs to the oldest game of all: telling stories.
After a bit of feedback and reflection on the second draft, I'm delving into writing a third draft (as of August 2025), strengthening the themes of friendship and family.
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#writing: I think I'm actually finished with the third #draft of my #fantasy #novel. That was a long journey, and a difficult project because the book has two levels (a story within a story). But finally all the jigsaw pieces fit together to form the ending that it deserved from the start.
Now the process of getting feedback starts anew🙂 👀
There are loads of scholarly folks who write well—at least before the LLM Age. But very few writers can write cogently, comprehensively, and compactly, all at once, when conveying dense subject matters.
This deficiency is almost a pandemic in #STEM. It is remarkably easy for a STEM writer to hide behind fine turns of phrase: “astute readers can see”, “this is left as an exercise“, “without losing generality”, and so on. And everyone’s favourite: toss in a long equation with a cursory, almost dismissive, discussion that imparts no insight to the readers.
I admit that I, too, suffer from this institutional debility. I admire the #writing styles of Hemingway, Strunk, Asimov, Kernighan, et al., but it is difficult to emulate those greats.
Ebook: https://books2read.com/EmergentConsequences
The painter of the universe, known as Life, just wanted to fulfill her reason for being, by creating a universe full of beautiful wonders and living things, but her twin brother, Death, exists solely to destroy her work, leading to an intractable argument about whose work should prevail.
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A parade of dirigibles? No, it''s A Parade of Horribles!
I read mostly old books, so it's weird for me to be excited about an upcoming release... but I am 😃
Coming May 12th, the eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series:
A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman.
The Consumer Council of Norway comes out swinging on enshittification.
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council ha...
I vote for quill pens instead of stars 😉
amen zwa, esq.
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