You can visit this wonderful housing development. (<- Click)

Looks nice, but to get in, you have to wait for one of the current residents to go away on an adventure. Also, I hear the homeowners association is very strict about lawns, outbuildings, and pet dragons.

Here’s a couple of tricks taught by my strange hero Jack Bickham in his book Setting.  I don’t recommend Setting, because it spends most of its time telling you obvious things like “Don’t set your story in the old west if you want to talk about urban slums.” But it gives a few specific techniques, the kind Bickham excels at and great writers never mention because they are too pedestrian

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This is an incredible time-saver. Watch all of seasons 1-3... at once!

Theoretically, you could watch this and figure out what the typical dramatic structure is for a my Little pony episode. In practice, your brain would melt.

(Unless you are Pinkie Pie, in which case this is probably normal.)

2376 The Star (Arthur Clarke)
2500 spoken words in a typical My Little Pony episode
3789 The Sentinel (Arthur Clarke)
6845 Neutron Star (Larry Niven)
8093 We Can Remember it For You Wholesale (Philip K Dick)
14205 The Roads Must Roll (Heinlein)
29026 The Stranger (Spanish translation)
29698 Of Mice and Men
30141 Animal Farm
30273 Apocalypse Now (screenplay)
30644 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
32807 The Time Machine

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Admujica (Adrian Mujica) writes about one story review per week. He's working on a review of my story "The Detective & the Magician". I looked at his previous reviews. I think he deserves more than 10 watchers for them. Check them out and see if you agree.

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I’m reading Talking Heads frontman David Byrne’s book, How Music Works. The book is largely about his claim that context is the most important thing in determining musical form.

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Silly human. That was a pegasus.

I recently made a post about bad advice, in which I ungraciously called out suggestions some readers had made as bad advice.

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Sometimes it’s helpful to take advice that you don't agree with. Three examples:

Advice that makes you uneasy for reasons you don't understand

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