“How do I give my readers emotions without breaking ‘Show don’t Tell’?” For the familiar medium of film, an actors’ method of performing dialogue donates the majority of the emotional connection we viewers perceive in a collaboration between writer, director and performer. …

“If you can’t condense your novel’s essence down into a single poem or flash fiction, you don’t know it well enough. Go back. Edit and rewrite. Find the core and work it. Then? Keep your head. Keep it high. …

WARNING LIGHT CALLING centres around Sputnik in a long narrative poem / a novella in verse. Anti-Heroic Sputnik is a spacey young man. He finished studies in the history of ideas and Russian literature. He imagines his life in the context of Soviet culture, literature, and philosophy, while entangled in…

Maybe you can tell me, why does wine taste so different when I drink it in the Okanagan versus when I get it home? When I worked at a winery tasting room, most folk were locals who mounted up on their aluminum steeds for long weekends of wine bending fun…

As a mythologist, I think one thing to remember is not putting our lens on modifying historical actions. Yes. We’re writing now, but historical context for all its’ Hephaestus-like ugliness, needs to be maintained to be authentic. While we should make commentary on problematic things in the past (I do…

“The divergence between comprehension and information is the tantamount issue in building sapient artificial intelligence. Without the ability to comprehend and translate the data observed, a machine has nothing but complicated algorithms, which lead it to decision by programmer’s rote. Without comprehension my machine is an actor giving someone else’s…

Full disclosure, I shouldn’t love wine. Shocking! Alcohol was the devil’s brew, the easiest way to the Pit. Tis a lot to put on a beverage humankind fermented for thousands of years. …

I love reading the works of early literature & bygone cultures for motivation. While the ethics of the past require a discerning lens, I still see the wisdom we can take as valuable. As a theorist, I must recognize the context behind works, which in our current world, might be…

Freedom is the ultimate aspiration & joy of society. No form of ownership to any Nation, Entity, Company or Religion is worth the lack of freedom. Nation-States are artificial dominations to be ignored. Identification is a signal of ownership. Deny all identification, labels, brands and debts. The Idless Manifesto, The…