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How to Deal with Incompetence: The Role of MaliceYou might have seen some memes going around claiming “Idiots, everywhere!” or something of the sort. As George Carlin famously said,...
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How to Use Flashbacks: The Role of the Past in Writing FictionHumans are temporal beings: We live in the present (good luck defining that), but we also have a vastly complex understanding of the past....
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Two Weeks Visiting Lemnos (or, Taking a Shot at a Travelogue)If you are reading these lines around the time this post went live, I’m enjoying the Greek summer sun having iced coffee on the beach....
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A Summer Evening in Another World – Flash Fiction StoriesA Summer Evening in Another World is a collection of flash fiction stories I wrote in the span of two weeks some time ago. Flash fiction refers to...
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Accumulating Cringe Theory (or, why It Sucks Growing Old)If you think you’re about to read some grand existentialist revelation, let me stop you right there – or redirect you to Giacomo Leopardi....
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AI Tools for Writers: Make Your Life Easier, Keep Your Art IntactThe popularization of artificial intelligence (AI) tools is arguably one of the most important things to have happened in terms of the internet...
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Are Narrative Worlds Real? Reflections on MetaphysicsAs a child, whenever I got emotionally affected watching a film or reading a story, my folks would try to console me saying “It’s not...
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Is Knowledge Always Desired?“Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was”, the creature in Frankenstein utters, summarizing one of...
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Symbolic Spring: From Rebirths to Temporal DistortionsSomehow reading my own title makes me think it sounds too academic. Serves me right for using a phrase – “temporal distortions” –...
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Cathartic Endings in Fiction: How (and When) You Need ThemThe ending is perhaps the most crucial part of a novel. The reason is of course its role in tying narratively loose threads and overall rendering...
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The Clock Village: an Interactive Fiction ExperienceThe Clock Village, my latest programming project, is first and foremost an interactive fiction experience. Only nominally could one also call it a...
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Expectations vs Reality, Writer-StyleSo, you too want to “become a writer”, right? You’re in good company! You and another 5 billion people apparently want the same....
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Accidental Creativity: The Undead MuseFirst things first: The Undead Muse is the title of my most recent music album that, like the rest of the music that I make, is an exploration of...
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Let’s Make a JavaScript App with ChatGPTYou might remember a recent post on asking ChatGPT about the Gothic. I there mentioned how ChatGPT is a tool and, like every tool, its successful...
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Writing a University Thesis: or, Tales from the Academic CryptYou probably think this post isn’t for you – unless you’re a student about to start writing a university thesis. But although in this...
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How to Introduce Characters: Examples, Problems, and GenreWhether you write short stories or novels, fantasy fiction or literary fiction, you have to deal with characters. Even experimental fiction needs...
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The Danger of Partial Knowledge: My ChatGPT EncounterThe old piece of wisdom might be right: It’s better to know nothing about something, rather than know a little. Of course, referring to...
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Embrace Failing, or How to Live FreeI’m deliberately provocative, I fully admit. I’m asking you to embrace failing, supposedly promising you this will let you live free....
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Unfinished Books: Do It the Right Way!Unfinished books are an inevitable part of reading. Perhaps you took a chance on a completely unknown author, or perhaps something everyone else...
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Why I Decided to Offer All my Books for FreeI’ve offered my books for free “always”. All you had to do was email me and ask for a free, no-strings-attached copy. Perhaps...
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“Kill Your Darlings” May Mean Well: It Is Still Awful AdviceYou have surely heard this advice: “Kill Your Darlings”. It might mean well, as its motivation is to help you remove unnecessary text....
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Humans Are Predictable (and That’s Fine)All of us humans are predictable – including this very statement and this entire post. That is, it’s inherently predictable to say humans...
