Somebody on Twitter asked this question today: I have wrestled with this question at intervals. I usually think about it for a short while, but then I remember that I have a finite amount of time left on the planet and I need to create something that is definably mine before I go. I have worked in I.T. for 42 years, and I do not believe that I was able to “move the needle” on […]
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This morning, I found myself staring at a question that I commonly see on social media: This, in broader terms, leads to the classic worry that I think most authors have: what if somebody else plagiarizes or steals all or part of my writing and claims it as their own? (This, by the way, applies to almost any type of writing; fiction, non-fiction, current affairs, you name it). I have done a lot of reading
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The entire area of what is known as “sex work” is an area where societies get into all sorts of conflicts and debates. This is not new. Sex is still seen as a taboo subject by many people in many societies. The reality that taboos tend to contribute little more than ignorance and bad decisions is often overlooked. But since sex is an essential activity, simply for the continuation of the species, it cannot really
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We are deep into what I believe is the most important electoral cycle of my lifetime. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people are engaged, fired up and motivated in all sorts of ways. I am seeing this on my Twitter account, where people who self-identify as writers are posting tangentially or directly political tweets. This, of course, leads to a spectrum of reactions from “nah, not my scene” to “HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MY
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At some point, in my past, when I found myself living with a wife who was, shall we say, highly scenic, I began to muse on the way in which I could measure the size of female breasts. There is the infamous (and, sometimes, highly misleading) system of bra cup sizes, which has gone through several iterations. The inability of the wider world to cope with the reality that some women have large scenery was
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