Alan K. Lipton

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    Points of View
    fiction4
    • Feb 8, 2019
    • 5 min

    Points of View

    A few years ago, browsing in a used bookstore in a town where I don't live (which, by the way, is a great strategy for finding titles...
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    Devolution/Evolution: What's Up With U.S. English, Anyway?
    fiction4
    • Dec 11, 2018
    • 5 min

    Devolution/Evolution: What's Up With U.S. English, Anyway?

    One thing that makes the human species so unique is the complexity of our communication. We like to think of language as a fixed,...
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    Post-Halloween Post
    fiction4
    • Nov 15, 2018
    • 2 min

    Post-Halloween Post

    [A note of apology: Ideally this should have been a Halloween-themed post, but the spirit didn't move me until this week.] As the waning...
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    The Enlightened Generation: A Thought Experiment for International Day of Peace
    fiction4
    • Sep 26, 2018
    • 5 min

    The Enlightened Generation: A Thought Experiment for International Day of Peace

    "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and...
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    Don't Fear the Editor
    fiction4
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 5 min

    Don't Fear the Editor

    It's not always easy to market your editing skills. As someone who's been doing this for a few years now, I see two main reasons: 1)...
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    Here Stands the Village Wordsmith
    fiction4
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 2 min

    Here Stands the Village Wordsmith

    Welcome to The Village Wordsmith blog. I never really thought of myself as a wordsmith until my team members at the George Lucas...
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    EliteBrains Interview
    fiction4
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 6 min

    EliteBrains Interview

    INTRO: OUR MAN IN KIEV In December 2009, I heard from Dmitry Duda, an entrepreneur in Ukraine who'd seen one of my ads on craigslist. He...
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    Know Your Limits
    fiction4
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 4 min

    Know Your Limits

    INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #7 To the best of my knowledge, this seventh post in my series was never published. And the ride...
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    Interactive Writing: My Finest Hours
    fiction4
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 3 min

    Interactive Writing: My Finest Hours

    INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #6 This sixth post in my series was published 3/18/10. See the intro to post #1 for the what and...
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    Learning the Hard Way
    fiction4
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 3 min

    Learning the Hard Way

    INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #5 This fifth post in my series was published 12/17/09. See the intro to post #1 for the what and...
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    The Audition
    fiction4
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Audition

    INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #4 This fourth post in my series was published 10/7/09. See the intro to post #1 for the what and...
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    Freelance = Perpetual Job Search & Training
    fiction4
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 3 min

    Freelance = Perpetual Job Search & Training

    INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #3 This third post in my series was published 9/4/09. See the intro to post #1 for the what and...
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    Rubber Meets Road: 
The Gaming-to-Dotcom Shift
    fiction4
    • Sep 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    Rubber Meets Road: The Gaming-to-Dotcom Shift

    INTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #2 This second post in my series was published 6/30/09. See the intro to post #1 for the what and...
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    Interactive Fiction & Me
    fiction4
    • Sep 19, 2018
    • 3 min

    Interactive Fiction & Me

    INTRO: BLOGGING FOR MARY-MARGARET NETWORK In March 2009, when I was a struggling writer intent on breaking into the gaming industry,...
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