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First day at the University of Michigan Library

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Last day at the University of Michigan Hospital
Black Panther teaser trailer
Wonder Woman’s Best Battle Scene Almost Didn’t Make the Cut (link)

Last day at the University of Michigan Hospital

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Black Panther teaser trailer
Wonder Woman’s Best Battle Scene Almost Didn’t Make the Cut (link)
Wonder Woman (2017)

Black Panther teaser trailer

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The Red Rook cover almost done
Doctor Strange (2016) teaser poster
A most bodacious trailer!

Wonder Woman’s Best Battle Scene Almost Didn’t Make the Cut (link)

My comments below…

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Wonder Woman (2017)
How to Produce an Emotional Response in Readers: Inner Mode, Outer Mode, and Other Mode (link)
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

Wonder Woman (2017)

Saw Wonder Woman over the weekend. Recommended. Mini-review here (see Pick Comment):

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Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
How to Produce an Emotional Response in Readers: Inner Mode, Outer Mode, and Other Mode (link)

How to Produce an Emotional Response in Readers: Inner Mode, Outer Mode, and Other Mode (link)

Finally! We see someone handing out writing advice (particularly about showing and telling) that recognizes that it’s all about what is going on in the reader‘s head.

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What it Means When Someone Tries to Tell You THE Rules of Good Writing (link)
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
The Business Rusch: Perfection (link)

Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

Revenger is one of my few reading picks so far this year. I particularly liked the worldbuilding. Alastair Reynolds has created an interesting world that is Victorianesque. Some may want to put it into the Steampunk category, but it doesn’t really fit as it’s filled with a mixture of far-future and not-so-far-future tech and really …

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More thoughts on WUA progress
Retrofuture automobile
Rook’s Gambit – A review of The Red Rook at HeroSandwich.net (link)

2017 Writing log spreadsheet

Happy New Year! It has become a tradition for me to release a writing log for the forthcoming year and wish everyone a productive year, whether or not you a writer. Feel free to download this LibreOffice spreadsheet (link below) to track your writing productivity on a day by day, week by week, and month …

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2016 Writing log free download
2015 Writing log free download
Q-and-A follow up session on How to Set Up and Run a Web Site

The Objectivity Challenge (link and comment)

As you grow as a writer, you’ll naturally become better and better able to evaluate your work on the fly. Once you have a few years’ experience weeding your writing of tangents, flowery descriptions that sound nice but don’t really fit your streets-of-Detroit family saga, and the tendency to characterize every guy who wears his […]

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Getting out of the slush pile
A few thoughts about writing rules
Why we love bad writing (link)

Nathan Fillion Joins Guardians of the Galaxy as Wonder Man (link)

http://geekandsundry.com/nathan-filli... Comment: Ah, one of my favorite Avenger characters is in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. And somehow apropos for Nathan Fillion to play Wonder Man, given Wonder Man’s background as a Hollywood actor. Wiki version Google+

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