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• Smashwords – Coupons!

  

  KAIKU and AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE are on sale on Smashwords until October 28, 2017.Smashwords link: KAIKUSmashwords link: AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – September 23, 2017

  

  Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work ou... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – September 13, 2017

  

  Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – September 12, 2017

  

  “…it was his business to help them play. He could think of nothing better to do with his life, for he knew that when they felt free to play, their souls... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – September 11, 2017

  

  You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, “Your style just isn’t right because you don’t use the... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – September 6, 2017

  

  In private correspondence the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler once confessed that even if he didn’t write anything, he made sure he sat down at his desk... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – September 4, 2017

  

  RISKSTo laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose your feelings... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – August 23, 2017

  

  “… Each nugget of information was fascinating. The world was full of newfound marvels and he wanted to share the excitement with everybody. They all did. They... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – July 27, 2017

  

  Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work ... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – July 26, 2017

  

  The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like painting by the numbers... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – July 18, 2017

  

  “Don’t you worry, and don’t you hurry.” I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.Mark... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – July 12, 2017

  

  When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time–20 years in the case of “Imperial Earth”, and 10 years in the... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – July 5, 2017

  

  The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – July 3, 2017

  

  The conclusion to be drawn is that I am happiest writing in small rooms. They make me feel comfortable and secure. And it took me years to figure out that I nee... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – July 1, 2017

  

  An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners’ names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.Mignon McLaughlin, The... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – June 29, 2017

  

  Storyteller’s CreedI believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation #2 – June 28, 2017

  

  There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, in you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.Mirabel OslerALIEN... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – June 28, 2017

  

  Two questions form the foundation of all novels: “What if?” and “What next?” (A third question, “What now?”, is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation #2 – June 27, 2017

  

  Do not put statements in the negative form. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – June 27, 2017

  

  The adult with a capacity for true maturity is one who has grown out of childhood without losing childhood’s best traits. He has retained the basic emotional... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE