Chris Angelis's Blog, page 15
June 20, 2022
How to Be “Good Enough” at Writing
How can we be good enough at writing? Maybe the question puzzles you. “I don’t want to be just ‘good enough’ at writing”, you might say. “I want to to be excellent! The best!” And yet, have you ever wondered whether there’s a paradox in a situation where the world wants us all to be […]
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How to Be “Good Enough at Writing
How can we be good enough at writing? Maybe the question puzzles you. “I don’t want to be just ‘good enough’ at writing”, you might say. “I want to to be excellent! The best!” And yet, have you ever wondered whether there’s a paradox in a situation where the world wants us all to be […]
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June 13, 2022
My 48K Challenge: A Programming Lesson on Creativity
There are all sorts of asinine challenges in the ocean of mediocrity that is social media, and let me assure you, this isn’t one of them. My “48K challenge” is something I came up with when I noticed something disturbing on my phone: The size of the calculator app is 8MB. That of the alarm […]
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June 6, 2022
No, AI Can’t Produce Art (but It Can Write)
Based on discussions and what I read, a lot of people are afraid AI, artificial intelligence, will “steal” their jobs – what the hell happened to the “one day we’ll have robots and we won’t need to work” dream of early sci-fi? But I digress… Writers don’t seem to be an exception. A great number […]
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May 30, 2022
Scooby-Doo Gothic: Beyond Supernatural Explained
Unless you’ve spent the last five decades on Mars, you must know Scooby-Doo – the fearless (cough, cough) cartoon dog chasing ghosts. Believe it or not, what we could refer to as Scooby-Doo Gothic goes back more than 200 years, to Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). How, you might ask. What on earth […]
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May 23, 2022
How to Create Patterns in Literature
Can you imagine a narrative without patterns? A novel where each scene, chapter, or other division is more or less independent from the rest? Well, I wish I could say “me neither”, but I’m afraid I’ve seen such awful novels. Which is precisely why I know they should be avoided at all costs. To create […]
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May 16, 2022
Planet Generator: A Tool for SciFi and Fantasy Authors
Astronomy is one of my hobbies, and I’m particularly intrigued by exoplanets – planets beyond our solar system. Combining this interest with my coding and writing experience, I thought to make this JavaScript Planet Generator program. Not only does it create graphical representations of such fascinating worlds, it also generates random civilizational data that might […]
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May 9, 2022
Review of If Cats Disappeared from the World, by Genki Kawamura
I love Japanese literature. Its themes are often focused, intelligent, quirky. I also love cats – indeed, for similar reasons, one may add! Combining the two, we get this review of If Cats Disappeared from the World, by Genki Kawamura. You might also recall my review of The Travelling Cat Chronicles, by Hiro Arikawa, featuring […]
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May 2, 2022
Experience and Memory: a Problematic Relationship
It’s impossible to experience without memory. Think about it: If you had no memory beyond the immediate, ever-ghostly “now”, how could you remember how a sunset looked like? How could you remember your first kiss, or some important achievement? Moreover, it’s not only experiencing that, without memory, would suffer. Learning would be difficult if not […]
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April 25, 2022
Character Concept Picker – Creating Literary and Video-Game Characters
From Narrative Nods to Word Journey, I’ve made a lot of programs that one way or another revolve around words, writing, and fictional worlds. Most of them are available on the Home for Fiction Patreon page, but some are also freely available to all. Character Concept Picker is such an app. It’s open-source, free for […]
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