Ok, it's a necrothread, but it's an interesting counterpoint to the thread about whether "fundamentalism is bad" is a bad theme for a book, and...
I think what you say is right of some religious people, but very far from all. Firstly, even in the case of the most science-denying...
That doesn't seem to account for the development of religion. It might be the case that most people subscribe to a particular religion because of...
There's a lot of debate about fiction that's character-driven versus fiction that's plot-driven. There's a reason fiction that's message-driven...
In terms of similar ideas in other works, there's some parallel with Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, though in that book there didn't seem...
It's just occurred to me that I'm going to have terrible trouble with pronouns :(
A few interesting thoughts already, thanks. Following up on a few of the points mentioned: Everything is possible, but everything has a cost (in...
I'm playing with ideas for a magical world in which everyone is born with a fixed (typically very long by our terms) life expectancy that they are...
Was that an intentional reference to Sturgeon's law? (Technically, "Sturgeon's revelation")? It's a fine, fine line...
I would say it depends entirely on context. The second version is slower than the first, but whether that's good or bad depends on what you're...
"I wake up this morning" jarred badly for me. You're (almost certainly) not writing/speaking at the moment you wake up, so the switch of tense...
Looking it up in the Google NGram viewer, it's interesting to see that the use of "shouldn't've" has grown from nothing in 1900 up to a small (but...
As far as I can see, an opinion can be correct or incorrect, whereas a preference simply is. On the other hand, I can see how the boundary can be...
And if not in writing, at least in playing Scrabble :)
Separate names with a comma.
