Fiction Writers Deserve Better Tools

I write software for money and fiction for fun. Tools for writing fiction are not as good as tools for writing software.

craig-russell.co.uk

No, Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive

Let’s Explore a Little Math

millersbookreview.com

The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from peers or mentors.

newrepublic.com

Resources for World-Builders

Since the WordPress archives are far from the easiest thing to navigate and it can be difficult to find what you are looking for even though it is, I am putting together a couple of ‘index&#8…

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The enshittification of Amazon paperback books · Alex Erhardt

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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Not All Sitting Is Equal. One Type Was Just Linked to Better Brain Health.

Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent.

sciencealert.com

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes”

In 2000, Douglas Adams made an interesting observation that I keep returning to. A user on Slashdot named “FascDot Killed My Pr” had asked the following question (where HGttG = Hitchhiker’s Guide to t...

shreevatsa.net

We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone

I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive

theguardian.com

Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout

The silence from the group of accounts, which began on Thursday, comes amid widespread protests against the leadership of the Islamic Republic.

heraldscotland.com

Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

theguardian.com

How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US | Kinder Institute for Urban Research

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The great shift of English prose

It's not because of shorter sentences.

worksinprogress.news

The economics behind Zack Polanski's claims

The Green Party leader's recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory

newstatesman.com

Why the next 25 years could surpass anything in modern memory | Peter Leyden: Full Interview

YouTube video by Big Think

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How a fertility gap is fuelling the rise of one-child families

The proportion of UK families with one child has grown since the turn of the century - with knock-on effects for society

bbc.co.uk

OBR chair Richard Hughes resigns over Budget day publishing error

The government's official forecaster inadvertently published a crucial Budget document early.

bbc.co.uk

Books I've Read

Books I've read, with a little review

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