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Once, I thought that all of the children’s stories that I had read when I was young were past being written. I heard that the fairy tales and the nursery rhymes had been banned in the schools and that my favorite writers had been placed on lists that described them and their works as unsuitable […]
View MoreI’m in the process of researching the best way to prepare files for Kindle publishing. Tales of The Fall was painstakingly typeset using the LaTex “memoir” class and Amazon wants files submitted in HTML. The conversion is going to remove much of the effect of the typesetting, especially the verse sections and chapter headings. I […]
View MoreI’m just waiting for an animation render to finish. The footage is of a softbody with a wind effect. Photo-realistic images are possible in systems like this but are they really necessary? I mean, if we only use our imagination to emulate reality, then what would be the point of fantasy? On the other hand, […]
View MoreThere are some things about writing that I’ve discovered this year that would be surprising, I think, to most people who don’t spend the majority of their day either pacing, talking to themselves, or bound to a keyboard. I’ve spent this last year exactly that way. I realized at a certain point that I, in […]
View MoreI was just reviewing the articles that I currently have published. Writing for the web is so completely different than traditional print publishing. In addition to this awareness of the technology behind your content, there’s also knowing that there’s this seething mass of generally uncaring users out there who will (hopefully) peruse your work. You […]
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