It's a little frustrating that I seem to be making the same writing mistakes over and over again.

As someone who does computer work, the obvious solution to repeating the same mistakes is to make a checklist (of course, then you turn the checklist into a shell script and make your life infinitely easier -- when I figure out how to write a script to write short stories, I'll tell you)

It's pretty simple really. You don't need any Einsteinian equations or light cones to prove it. Just simple logic.

I spend a lot of time thinking about why I'm not yet published. This probably isn't a very good use of my time, overall, as the answer probably lies in a failure to adhere to Heinlein's rules for writing, specifically, I'm not writing enough.

Go buy Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy.

"Why?" you ask.

Because it's sexier than Allison Stokke! (There are even pictures at the beginning of each story!)

I wonder how many people realize how ridiculous canned soup is?

Soup has been sold for hundreds of years. It's amazing to me that an idea that stupid could persist for so long.

Let's examine the origins of soup. Hundreds of years ago, not starving was the first thing on most people's minds. Even the wealthy put considerable effort in to whipping the slaves to ensure they had enough food.

I write Science Fiction.

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