Writing Beyond Your Genre
How a book on graphic novel writing changed my perspective of narrative craft.
Latest
Bernie Sanders and the New American Age
Bernie Sanders is considering a new bid for President of the United States of America and we should all be paying very close attention. Bernie Sanders is considering a new bid for President of the United States of America and we should all be paying very close attention.
News
21 Million Passwords Have Been Breached
As well as 773 Million Email Addresses. And they are all up for sale. An unprecedented breach of the security of millions of people have been released and placed up for the highest bid. The time is now to secure yourself-now, before it’s too late.
How to Get Your Story Read
Advice from a weary editor who is on your side. Ever wonder what an editor is thinking about your story? Usually, just before they start reading, they’re thinking “I hope this is good!” Here’s how to make it good.
Essay
We Think About Success Wrong
Anyone reading this can be doing amazing things. If we’re not careful, in our quest to imitate the great entrepreneurial minds of our century, we’ll find ourselves running over a cliff.
It’s Not About Free Trade, It’s About Open Access to Ideas
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single…
Essay
There’s an Epidemic in Hollywood
And it’s called Wanda Group (among others).
Health
Do Not Go Quiet into Chronic Pain
For those of us with chronic conditions, life can often feel like a series of compromises and fallbacks. I’m fortunate in many ways. I also have a chronic illness and a host of secondary, comorbid chronic conditions.
Essay
Making Futurism Work for You
The Solarpunk ideal is a resistance to the idea that things are ever “just the way they are.” We can always make changes for the better. A practical mode of bettering ones life, the Solarpunk ideal is the realization that a resistance needs to ignite, a resistance to the idea that “things are just
Pop-Culture
All Men Should Watch Pride and Prejudice (1995)
I was one of those young men who thought that Pride and Prejudice was the last thing I wanted to experience. But, oh, how I was wrong. I had accepted the prevailing masculine norm of my culture without realizing it; I had become colonized by thoughts which were not my own.
Education
The Purpose of Education (and why current systems fail)
We do not want to lay down a pattern or type to which men of all sorts are to be made by some means or another approximate. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they preserve self-respect?
Health
Poor Air-Quality Decisions Put Lives at Risk
On November thirteenth, members of the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) issued a decision on a crisis. Given what we know of the impacts of climate change, it is quite likely that California will continue to see many devastating fires in the years ahead, and schools need to be ready for tha