JamesSavik

I try to be kind evaluating writers- especially rookies. No matter how bad their stuff is, I can look back at some of my earlier work and find worse. 😦 Writing is like everything else. You only get better by working at it. Oh, sure. There are the rare prodigies and their every line is brilliant, but most of us have to work at it. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you hit the ball over the fence. Sometimes you run into the fence. This is an art, not a science.

Drama occurs at the sharp edges of life where there is conflict and struggle. Drama occurs in war, disaster, crime, bad relationships, middle school and all sorts of uncomfortable places. Authors take you there, but it's the reader's choice whether they go. When there is a mature content or abuse warning, and I'm pretty good about placing them, you proceed at your own psychic risk. Authors are offering you a magic carpet ride. To make it interesting, sometimes we take you through some bad neighborhoods. Some people will love that ride. Others will barf. Revel in the freedom of making that choice for yourself and not letting the bastards below decide what you can and cannot read. . You might think no, that could never happen. Think again. Before 2021, did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine you might lose your job over a vaccination for a bad cold? There are those people who have a compulsion is to control others that's like a sickness with them. Many people call them Karen's. 👺 There are those people (like me) who live to give Karen the finger. 🖕 Who do you suppose has more fun? 😎

Mud is an attractive nuisance to redneck kids. We'll play football in it and get so muddy, our Mom's have to hose us down in the yard before they let us in the house.

I saw Dune today, and it is a remarkable movie. I can't imagine a better treatment of the source material. It was obviously part 1 of a series- I can see two, or maybe even a third part. Recently saw that part two is in production. This has the earmarks of a passion project for the director- much like the Lord of the Rings series. I've become very, very cynical regarding Hollywood's work recently. It has been uniformly so bad, I don't want to waste my consciousness on it. Villanueva's Dune is what movies should be. On a scale of one to five stars, it's a whole cluster.

Thanks for your efforts. Our anthologies are always something special.

If you consider the media-heads to be clowns, and their words attempted comedy, the duplicity doesn't sting quite as much.

When I write, I want to nail the setting. My last story was set in 2018. The way I put my head on, to find the grove, was to listen to songs current or a little before. I looked at art and photography from the period. I looked up an outline for the news of the year. What movies were playing. I immersed myself in the time. Sure- it wasn't long ago but think how fast things changed. There were no masks. iPhone 8 was the king of mobile beasts. Sure, the muzak sucked raw balls but, you can't have everything. What do you do to get into the right frame of mind, mood, headspace or whatever you want to call it. I know I'm not the only crazed writer looking for that edge to make their writing POP.

Remember the cool part of the 90s? No, not when the good hash from Lebanon was going around. When the Bloodhound Gang was doing wut they did...

In most households, it is the Mom who is the preeminent personage because if she's not happy, nobody else will be.

Thinking of aliens, it occurred to me most of them are probably extinct. Given that the universe as it is currently configured is around 16 billion years old, the oldest stars in our galaxy are 8 billion years old, there’s been time enough for races to evolve and die out. Considering that most species that have ever lived on earth are extinct, that may be the answer to the Fermi paradox. Our galaxy may well be inhabited mostly by.tomb worlds and ghosts.

This is a cute little video about the Mewlips- legendary creatures Hobbits frighten their children with to keep them for going off on foolish adventures.

Let’s be real: compared to the absolute raunch on Nifty, our stuff is tame…. Relatively speaking of course. We serve up our drugs, sex and rock & roll tastefully and artistically.

I don't think so. It should evolve naturally I think.

One of the things that is consistent in my writing is that many (probably most) of my characters are military BRATs (Born, Raised and Transferred). We're a little different in the way we think, act and are very often that new guy. Someone asked me why that is, and I guess it's because it is the people I know. I look for stories about us but rarely see them. I'm NOT surprised to see that military tag trending so high. You really might be surprised how many of us are BRATs or even vets despite generations of... odd ideas about gay people not being fierce enough to be soldiers, sailors and airmen. When I was younger, I met many WW2 era gay vets that had been to such charming places like Anzio, Guadalcanal and Saipan. Most of them are gone now but never let it be said that we are any less Americans or haven't done our part.

I keep getting hit on online by women despite haunting gay sites and forums. I created the following to let them know they're barking up the wrong tree.

And punch you in the throat.

Inspired or long-winded. 😁

That's what happens to my short stories.

I wish I would have an epiphany and figure out why every story I write turns into a novella.

As an author, I am often bemused by the behavior of some of my characters.

Scientific Consensus Alfred 1 Wegener (1880-1930) was a German meteorologist who picked up an interest in geology. He wondered why some continents like Africa and South America fit together almost like a key? He began to wonder: do continents move? In Victorian times such an idea seemed ludicrous as every good Christian fundamentalist knew that the world was 10,000 years old. Anyone who might suggest processes like Wegener s or his contemporary James Hutton that took place over hundreds of millions of years was obviously daft. But Wegener’s suggestion that continents actually did move over time answered questions in biology. Why are there related species on the different continents but- they are obviously distant relatives. Obviously, well adapted for their environments, similar but obviously related. This did not prove Continental drift but, it certainly made a case for further investigation. Wegener suffered for his outlandish theory. No one in the scientific community gave his ideas any credence, and he didn’t get tenure at a prestigious university. In fact, he was a laughingstock. He died at the age of fifty doing field work in Greenland. His theory did not die. It didn’t come back as a coherent theory until the technology was developed to gather the data needed to prove that continents did indeed move. The theory of Plate tectonics was born and still remains controversial in some circles, but it is now a theory with hard data to back it up. This is a theme repeated time after time in science. If someday someone will come up with a theory better than plate tectonics, then science will adopt it. Otherwise, it works, it explains how demonstrable phenomena works, and it can be measured. Always be skeptical when someone tells you that the science is settled. Skepticism is the way of science: someone has an idea (hypothesis), then we test, test, test it. If it works, it becomes a theory. If not, we go back to the drawing board. Science is never static. Our understanding of ourselves, our planet and our universe is always changing. Anyone who tells you the science is settled doesn’t have a clue how science works. If the history of science is any guide, the “consensus” is wrong more than its right. We need mavericks like Wegener to show us a new way of looking at our world. The big question now is our climate changing? Yes. It has changed numerous times. Climate in geological time has changed for a number of reasons from comet bombardment, volcanic out-gassing and variations in solar output. The question of the age is that climate change man made or is it a natural cycle like a Grand Solar minimum. This question is by no means settled. Both hypothesis have their merits. Pretending that we know this answer is the worst sort of scientific hubris. We don’t know. We need to know because both models will treat 7 billion humans harshly. Only one is the right answer and getting it wrong would be a disaster.