The Earth is becoming more or less invisible to alien intelligent life. Since the switch to digital from analog television last year, we're sending less and less information over radiation waves. We'd be almost undetectable were it not for the 2 watts we're still transmitting over a long distance, not much more than that of a cell phone.
Eight Rules for Writing Fiction, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Money from Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and the rest of the Fortune 500 is already corroding the policy making process. Now, the Supreme Court tells these corporate giants that they have a constitutional right to trample our democracy.
The Guardian UK says that Oil Companies are now more dangerous than ever.
I instantly loved the art of Kelly Vivanco!
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