Novel Excerpt: Scarcity
Where'd everybody go?
Novel Excerpt: The Taking of Shale City
What in God's name could have ever possessed Shale City?
Excerpt of Short Story: Ka(fka)boom! An HR Adventure
Jason S awoke in his cubicle to find himself the victim of a Microsoft Teams Meeting invite.
Writing Advice: Let Em get Away with It... Then Don’t: The ‘Perfect Crime’ Method for Constructing your Mystery
Let’s say you’re writing a work of fiction that includes a mystery element. Let’s also say it’s either a whodunit (ala Murder She Wrote) or a howlysolvit (ala Columbo). One method you might consider in crafting your mystery is sketched thus:
Construct the perfect crime: conceive of a scenario where the perpetrator pulls off the crime without error, gets away with it completely, and then lives out the rest of his life happy, healthy, and despicable.
Construct the perfect crime: conceive of a scenario where the perpetrator pulls off the crime without error, gets away with it completely, and then lives out the rest of his life happy, healthy, and despicable.
Review and Commentary: Some Movie Reviews I Wrote Years Ago that are No Longer Relevant
*I wrote these for the website “Movie Review #24601” in the early 80s.
Copywriting Samples
My website for my publishing business: SubGenre Publishers, featuring many different examples of promotional and publicity material.
Novel Excerpt: Interventionism
The coldness of space will kill a man dead, never quicker than when in his head.
Writer Advice: Novelize your Script, or Script your Novel?
Everything that follows after establishing your story is rote adaptation… almost. I think it’s all rote if you write the novel first. I wrote three feature screenplays before novelizing two of them (really, novelizing one and novella-izing the other). I wish I had done this in reverse, for three reasons...
Academic Article: Free to Choose (But, What's a Choice Anyway?)
I’ve often argued (more frequently the last year) that, coercion negates choice. I realized recently however that I’ve only ever come to this conclusion intuitively. I wasn’t arguing anything, it turns out.
What is it about the definition of choice that requires one not be coerced should one actually choose?
What is it about the definition of choice that requires one not be coerced should one actually choose?
Academic Monograph: A Groundwork for A Logic of Objects
The history of philosophy is rich with theories about objects; theories of object kinds, their nature, the status of their existence, etc. In recent years philosophical logicians have attempted to formalize some of these theories, yielding many fruitful results. My thesis intends to add to this tradition in philosophical logic by developing a second-order logical system that may serve as a groundwork for a multitude of theories of objects.
