Failing again. Failing better.
I hope by now you’ve been able to check out a few of my “What if” posts. The idea has been to discuss a cool idea, usually a new piece of technology, and think about what sort of story ideas it might spark. Well, it seems like the folks at MIT’s Technology Review had similar…
Today, io9.com posted an interesting article about empathy and monsters. io9.com asked experts on neuroscience, psychology and horror fiction why we like to feel empathy or pity for monsters. It seems like a great topic to explore as Halloween approaches. Heath Matheson, an experimental psychology PhD candidate at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, believes that…
A while back, I wrote about world creation as short story fuel. My suggestion for a writer experiencing writer’s block was to pull out his world creation notes and work on a side story until the block clears. While I stand by this advice, spending time on a side story is not an effective strategy…
As described in a recent article on io9.com, researchers at USC, Stanford, and the Kellogg School of Management believe that Lord Acton was wrong when he said, “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Instead, the researchers believe that people who are given some authority but without the corresponding rank or status…
It’s supposed to rain pretty much the entire weekend here in DC. Because it’s fall, that means I have a perfect opportunity to stay inside, read, write, and watch way more football than I probably should. However, if you feel the need to go out this weekend (or any time before March 10, 2012), I…