Here’s some fiction-writing advice that’s been useful to me lately. Plot has always been the most difficult part of writing for me. I’m afraid of action! Stories I write have a tendency toward passive observation and inertia, which is why simplistic metaphors about meteors destroying the earth can be so helpful—by getting me out of […]
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Keeping up with the Devcenters
A nice way to keep up with what’s happening in the developerWorks Developer Centers, which are a rapidly growing set of developer-run microsites that I oversee at IBM, is to put all their headlines in one place, as I have on this Devcenter headlines page. I’ve used RSS, which I still think is underrated and […]
The brown hen and the Continual Conversation with a Silent Man
Thoughtful analysis by Gary Witt of Continual Conversation with a Silent Man, the Wallace Stevens’ poem from which brownhen.com gets its name: This is one of many poems by Stevens that I can return to again and again, and pull something new out of the words almost every time. The central theme here is man’s […]