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August 20, 2009
August 19, 2009
The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 88
Time travel works like this:
There is no time travel. Every moment occurs now. Linear existence, as we perceive it, is a fallacy. The clumsiness of our physical bodies keeps us from truly experiencing time. But, if we were able to release ourselves from our physical bodies, then we would truly experience time as it is. When people speak of the "white light" as they die, it's not heaven: it's the brilliance of a non-linear world.
Derek Singh is positive of this. Which is why he needs his girlfrien
August 18, 2009
The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 87
Time travel works like this:
You can't go forward, only back.
The future is at best unknowable, at worst, non-existent. The best temporal mechanics minds in the world cannot figure out why we move forward from moment to moment on our own, but can't jump ahead in the sequence a bit. The future remains unknowable and unvisitable.
The past, however, is fair game. Thing is, no one ever returns from a jaunt to the past. Old journals have turned up, detailing trips of hundreds of years, but never an exp
August 17, 2009
The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 86
Time travel works like this:
It's all about meditation, about connecting to the every moment in your life. Properly meditating, you can time-travel, experiencing the moments that have happened and will happen in your life as if they were the present. It's not something you can pick up after a few yoga classes, or anything. But if you practice for years, for decades, you can travel through the times of your own experiences.
Sam Aragones hadn't heard of this before he interviewed the Kesan Sech,
August 13, 2009
Welcome to "real life."
I just read something that angered me. What I read is not important, because what pissed me off was the phrase within an email that seems ubiquitous-indeed, I've said it myself. But I'm tired of it. I'm going to stop using it, and I implore you, I BEG of you to erase this phrase from your mind. Or at least erase the connotations you have with it.
Ready?
The phrase is "real life."
"I can't write/podcast/draw/compose because real life gets in the way."
We've equated "real" to mean "mundane" and "borin
August 12, 2009
Introducing a new addition to the ISBW Blog: Jared Axelrod!
Hi all!
I've returned from WorldCon exhausted and behind on work, podcasts, and family time. I'm crazy running to catch up, but I wanted to pause to announce that this blog just took on its first official contributor!
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Jared Axelrod has been my friend for years, and his wild mind and his inailbity to let anything stop his creative projects are a total inspiration. While I am thinking I don't have the time or energy to write 1000 words, Jar
July 31, 2009
Goals
Well, I said at the beginning of the month that I had ambitious goals, and yes, they were ambitious, and they failed miserably. This makes me sad. Sure there were reasons, excuses, excuses, blah blah.
Course, if this had been my day job, perhaps I would have gotten fired. Those excuses don't fly in the day job.
Rather apropos, though, was today's blog post from the awesome Creative Penn blog: Mid Year Writing Goal Review and Challenge. This is an excellent blog post that I'm taking a lot from. Esp
July 27, 2009
ISBW #123 – Art vs Popularity / Greg van Eekhout Interview
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00:07: ISBW #12300:37: GoTo Meeting Message01:24: Words, pants, and my WorldCon schedule!03:50: Promo: Movie Mantras05:27: Art vs Popularity - This blog post says Hugo nominees are mediocre and fandom are wrong for choosing these books. TheJuly 22, 2009
Worldcon Schedule
Yes, I will be attending my first WorldCon this year! Below is my schedule, I hope to see you there! Good ways to reach me are email and Twitter.
Thursday- arrive 11pm. (when I get there you can ask me if the super-late flight was worth the money I saved…)Friday- 12:30Location: P-524B
Title: Podcasting
Session ID: 468
All Participants: James Patrick Kelly, Mur Lafferty, Lucas Moreno
Moderator: Lucas Moreno
Description: SF podcasting: is it really part of the future of SF?
how can it be made more
July 21, 2009
I Should Be Writing – The PDF – Chapter 2
Below is the continuation of the ISBW document!
Chapter 2- Put Your Butt in the Chair (Direct link to PDF)
I've gotten a lot of great feedback on the first one, and already had one person convert it for me! Please thank Jason Ramboz for converting the document into HTML and Stanza formats!
ISBW Intro and Ch 1 – epub
ISBW Intro and Ch 2 – HTML
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