No one is censoring anything. The government is not coming in and shutting down the project. Freedom of speech means that your speech is free from...
Just do your homework first. If you misrepresent some aspect of a religion, it is likely to offend. Misrepresentations through ignorance are just...
The last open book exam I had was on Medieval Epistemology. No search feature in the world is going to help you to understand Avicenna's proof for...
I can't speak for the masses. When I read a book I form an image of a character. That image isn't always Caucasian. I don't know why.
The MP3 has all but wiped out CDs. With the popularity of the iPod and most new cars sporting jacks that support these players, there is no real...
I wasn't speaking to just you, so I hope you didn't take offense. Sometimes people latch onto these little tidbits and formulate a writer's code...
Chekhov's gun is not a rule, first of all. And even if it was, the "rules" of writing are not meant to be so stringently applied. This is...
Maia pretty well covered the workings of the word "revel" so I won't restate anything there. But when I see "sherevels.com" it takes my brain a...
Tiers =/= castes By that I mean, we may well develop a two tier system, but that doesn't mean that writers (or publishers) will be locked into...
I have read plenty of bad books. I've read books by authors whose novels read like a take-home assignment for group therapy. To use my earlier...
You're missing the point. How are you happening upon these self published books? If I self publish a book tomorrow, you could go an entire...
Is that a bad thing? I don't have faith in random books. I never have. I have faith in reviews and recommendations. But I have always acknowledged...
Why exactly does this make finding a good book a problem? Bookstore shelves have always been overflowing with books. The majority of these books...
Some writers study the market. Some folks study the stock market. My uncle John has a system that never fails when he plays roulette. You can...
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