Recent content by badgerjelly

The AI intelligences in the noval are REALLY fun and funny. Love the names they have. Probably the best book to start with would be 'The Player of Games' as it pretty much gives a nice overview of 'The Culture'. 'Use of Weapons' is a pretty horrific novel if you enjoy something that will...

If you have not read any of Ian Bainks 'Culture' novels I highly recommend them. Utopian and dysopian hand-in-hand. I hope his vision of the future comes true. We certainly seem to be heading in that kind of direction--with the highly speculative assumption AI can transition into a form of...

Yes. I highly recommend reading anything by Alan Moore (graphic novels or novels). Porbably the only work of fiction I really want to have a go at in the furture is Jerusalem. Alan Moore is a special kind of human being that quietly insists on attention by making large silent splashes in human...

Likely so. The biggest influence in my life has been trying to write about a world I created. As it turns out it is not really anything to do with writing a story it is my own personal mythos and has led me to research and learn about all manner of things.

I do write fiction. I do write poetry. I have not read a novel cover-to-cover for maybe a decade now. I very rarely read poetry outside of this forum.

I enjoying reading immensely, just not fiction. Writing is thinking concretely. I mostly write non-fiction, and techincal stuff at that. The fiction is more or less playing with poetic styles or feeding my own personal mythos. I have little idea why fiction suddenly stopped entertaining me...

It is absolutely not grad level. Just do not want you to think what you wrote is anything above undergrad level at best. Philosophical papers are difficult to write. It has the backbone of a good undergraduate paper, but would need more polishing in a few areas. If you want I could point out a...

This may sound rather bizarre, but I do not read fiction anymore. I have not read a single novel for roughly a decade. Do you think it is necessary to continually keep reading fiction if you want to write good fiction? What do you think are the benefit of abstaining from reading fiction and...

Makes me think of Jung. He created some words of his own.

I know enough about genes and genetic inheritence to know this is complete BS It is more than likely someone who knows next to nothing about the subject matter cherry picking ONE throw away line form a scientist (probably joking) and making it out to be a scientific claim.

100% pseudoscientific tripe for clicks and likes.

Huh? If you are going first person with two different characters then the character dictates the tone. Do you mean one is the main protagonist and so everything that happens essentially flows thorugh them even when you are reported the narrative via first person form the other character? If so...

Why?

Not sure if it helps but there is a field of study called Stylistics which is concerned primarily with a broader understanding of linguistics. It is commonly used in literary analysis too, but at the end of the day it is analytic rather than a guiding force. It offer a means to analyse a text...

I guess if I asked if you could pull my stuff from Poetry it woudl be next to impossible. I did copy it all onto my iPad but that died and it will cost an arm and a leg to cover the data. I do have a lot of it on paper but nowhere near all of it.