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August 14, 2023
“A Summer Evening in Another World” (Short Story)
If you are are reading this short story on or around the day it went live (and you live in the northern hemisphere), you are reading it on a summer day – and maybe evening. Quite by default, you are reading it “in another world”, because each one of us constructs their very own individual […]
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August 7, 2023
Ophelia’s Secret: Agency and Conceptual Cohesion in Art
The title seems very opaque and ambiguous, I’m sure (welcome to my world). “Ophelia’s secret? What secret? Ophelia who?” I hear you ask. “And what on earth do you mean by ‘agency and conceptual cohesion’?” First things first: With apologies to non-fictional Ophelias (and any secret they might have) out there, there is only one […]
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July 31, 2023
How to Name a Character in Fiction
What’s in a name, huh? Choosing how to name a character shouldn’t be too big a problem, right? Well, not so fast. Just as coming up with the perfect title for your novel is harder work than might initially appear, choosing a name for a character in fiction or even a video game contains significant […]
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July 24, 2023
Review of Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom, by Izumi Suzuki, is a collection of science fiction short stories. It includes seven stories in total, and should be possible to finish in one afternoon, should the reader wish to do that. The stories are entirely independent plot-wise, and there is no specific affect-based benefit in reading them all at once. In […]
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July 17, 2023
Literary Genre Detector: a Simple AI model in Python
My knowledge in Python is scant compared to JavaScript, though some years ago I did play with it a bit. Still, lately I’ve been interested in AI models, so I decided to give Python another go. As it turns out, it’s trivial to train some simple AI models with it. In today’s post, I’ll show […]
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July 10, 2023
Dreaming of Japan (and Other Imaginary Lands)
Japan is obviously not imaginary; it’s a real country, it exists – if you’re looking for countries that don’t exist, Finland is the one you’re looking for 😛. But my Japan is imaginary. I’m dreaming of a Japan that simply is there only in my imagination, being an entirely subjective, partial, and factually extremely flawed […]
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July 3, 2023
How to Deal with Incompetence: The Role of Malice
You might have seen some memes going around claiming “Idiots, everywhere!” or something of the sort. As George Carlin famously said, imagine how dumb the average person is, then realize half of them are even dumber. But to deal with incompetence (which isn’t quite the same as stupidity, which isn’t quite the same as ignorance), […]
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June 26, 2023
How to Use Flashbacks: The Role of the Past in Writing Fiction
Humans are temporal beings: We live in the present (good luck defining that), but we also have a vastly complex understanding of the past. Moreover, we can anticipate future events, even those that, as Schopenhauer put it, in times far ahead of our own. Inevitably then, when it comes to writing fiction, learning how to […]
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June 19, 2023
Two Weeks Visiting Lemnos (or, Taking a Shot at a Travelogue)
If you are reading these lines around the time this post went live, I’m enjoying the Greek summer sun having iced coffee on the beach. I’m visiting Lemnos, a Greek island in the north Aegean Sea, and I had a funny idea: How about if I wrote a travelogue – a form I’ve never written? […]
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June 12, 2023
A Summer Evening in Another World – Flash Fiction Stories
A Summer Evening in Another World is a collection of flash fiction stories I wrote in the span of two weeks some time ago. Flash fiction refers to stories that are shorter than short stories. Some stories might be as short as a single sentence, though on average, stories in A Summer Evening in Another […]
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