fiction4Feb 8, 20195 minPoints of ViewA 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 that you might not enco...
fiction4Dec 11, 20185 minDevolution/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, reliable system, and while ...
fiction4Nov 15, 20182 minPost-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 year turns cold and ...
fiction4Sep 26, 20185 minThe 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 if they can learn to...
fiction4Sep 20, 20185 minDon't Fear the EditorIt'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) There are many kinds of ...
fiction4Sep 20, 20182 minHere Stands the Village WordsmithWelcome to The Village Wordsmith blog. I never really thought of myself as a wordsmith until my team members at the George Lucas Educational Foundation start...
fiction4Sep 20, 20186 minEliteBrains InterviewINTRO: 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 was building a profe...
fiction4Sep 20, 20184 minKnow Your LimitsINTRO: MARY-MARGARET NETWORK BLOG POST #7 To the best of my knowledge, this seventh post in my series was never published. And the ride ended here. I have ab...
fiction4Sep 20, 20183 minInteractive Writing: My Finest HoursINTRO: 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 why of this whole nai...
fiction4Sep 20, 20183 minLearning the Hard WayINTRO: 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 why of this whole na...
fiction4Sep 20, 20183 minThe AuditionINTRO: 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 why of this whole na...
fiction4Sep 20, 20183 minFreelance = Perpetual Job Search & TrainingINTRO: 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 why of this whole naiv...
fiction4Sep 19, 20182 minRubber Meets Road: The Gaming-to-Dotcom ShiftINTRO: 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 why of this whole na...
fiction4Sep 19, 20183 minInteractive Fiction & MeINTRO: BLOGGING FOR MARY-MARGARET NETWORK In March 2009, when I was a struggling writer intent on breaking into the gaming industry, recruiting guru Mary-Mar...