Note: A Truism from Trek about Theology
This just a short note based on my own experiences and my strong interest in Star Trek. There is a line of dialogue that a brilliant writer, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, probably didn’t know he was getting correct. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season one episode, “In the Hands of the Prophets” (1993). Vedek …
Reposting: Clarification of a poem
Lots on wordplay in the poem I wrote this morning. I suppose it helps to know that “love-in-idleness” is just another phrase for heartsease, which is a flower, a pansy, the type that most hybrids come from, Viola tricolor, / family Violacease. Play on heart /mix of/ word refrain (musical), symphonies, lecture halls, decry, shifting …
Memo: Avoid autobiographical fiction
I just found two story outlines, both about 10 pages of notes, that I exerted a great deal of effort into trying to flesh out for potential novels. I hadn’t reviewed them for a while and now with fresh eyes I see they could not possibly be anymore autobiographical. For most of us, this should …