[Matthew Brown]

What kind of sci-fi have you already read?

[Matthew Brown]

I can recommend The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold. It’s an older one, 1970’s sometime, I think. Great book.

[Matthew Brown]

There are no rules on what you can or cannot write about.

[Matthew Brown]

I’m still figuring that out myself.

Here’s a post where I talk about what I have learned so far:

Word gangs, clones, and pacing

[Matthew Brown]

There’s one I quote quite a lot. I’d forgotten it was a Pratchettism.

Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.

The quote is from Jingo I think.

[Matthew Brown]

Ooooh, I love this one.

1. Get it down on paper; make it pretty later
2. After an event, there are four stages -> immotion, reasoning, anticipation, and action
3. If you gave 100 authors the same ideas, you would get (at least) 100 unique stories. Only you can tell yours.

[Matthew Brown]

I’ve spotted that too. If I can’t figure out exactly why it changed, I’ll hit it with some targetted custom CSS later.

[Matthew Brown]

I’m a heavy Mastodon user (like Twitter/x but better). You can set filters to hide stuff you don’t want to see.

Since setting filters for certain news and world leaders, my timeline has been a happier place.

Also, I made a point of following people who share art, positive stuff, and wholesome content. I love it.

[Matthew Brown]

Not much. I stood for election to the local county council.

 

[Matthew Brown]

I have indeed come back

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