It’s another year, and quite awhile since I last updated this blog. Not for lack of random discourse running through my head, but it always seems like such a pain to put thoughts down and make them understood clearly on a page. But that said, I’m toying with trying to write more this year, even [...]
I literally Stumbled (StumbleUpon, that is!) the Six Word Stories homepage tonight and found the brief stories impressive. I’ve heard of similar ideas on Twitter and other blogs and such, but the selections they’ve made for Six Word Stories really hit a literary gap I’ve left unfilled in my recent life. So, inspired by the [...]
In grad school, one of my favorite writing exercises was a five minute free write at the beginning of class. Prof. Jane Anne Staw usually gave us a topic, but where you went from that was only limited by your imagination. Each following week, we would take the paragraph from the class before and select [...]
Been reading Len Fisher’s Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life for the past couple weeks. Author of approachable explanations of science such as How to Dunk a Doughnut, Fisher is also an Ig Nobel prize winner and physicist. His goal as a writer is to make science interesting, relevant, and understandable to a [...]