A Few Random Notes on Self-Publishing
I just spent most of today fighting with book formatting for a thing I'll talk about in good time, which led me to dust this set of notes I drew up off for your reading pleasure. Because occasionally...
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Outside the Government 12: The TARDISodes
The “TARDISodes” were a set of online shorts promoting individual episodes of Series Two, written by Gareth Roberts. They were among the early experiments with “Internet versions of television” that...
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Not Born So Much As Ground Like Pigment From His Times (The Last War in...
“Not born so such as ground like pigment from his times”- Alan Moore, Angel Passage, 2001The text becomes a cut-up invocation that puts Burroughs to shame, describing how “in the garden of Gethesemene...
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Outside the Government 13 (Totally Doctor Who)
The consensus, for reasons thoroughly intelligible to basically everybody, is to pretend this doesn’t exist. Every other Doctor Who spinoff is celebrated. This… was difficult to even find a copy of. I...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (July 20th, 2013)
Have still not quite finished the Tom Baker essays, mostly because I realized I'd forgotten to do the commissioned essays from the Kickstarter, so those ate some week. One more, I think. /checks the...
View ArticleSunday Pancaking (July 21st, 2013)
So. Think we'll get any big news at the Comic-Con panel today? Or, if that's already happened, want to discuss said panel? Or any of the other big geek news coming out of Comic-Con?Here's your thread....
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 66 (Heroes)
We could be watchable(Just for one season)At the other end of Series Two we discussed The Sci-Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who’s initial stablemate in US television. Then we discussed the...
View ArticleOblique Strategies For Causing Social Revolutions
A sketch written mostly for my own entertainment, and to see what happened if I wrote with a relatively constrained form on a one hour sprint.Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistencyA...
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Outside the Government: Everything Changes
David, you have to try this. I call it standing in the rain lookingdramatic. xoxo, JohnIt’s October 22nd, 2006. My Chemical Romance are at number one with “Welcome to the Black Parade,” with Scissor...
View ArticleFor Amusement Only, Really
Some writers have embarrassing juvenilia. I have that too, actually, but mostly I have embarrassing academia. The death of Douglas Engelbart a bit ago struck me a bit because his "mother of all demos"...
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Outside the Government: Day One
I'm somebody's fetish.It’s still October 22nd. Stupid double bills. In any case, Day One.Thing one about Day One is all the sex. Torchwood gets a fair amount of stick for being an “adult” show in a...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (July 27th, 2013)
Hello everyone. It's one of those weeks where I constantly want to work on something other than what I am, and I find myself spoiled for choice - Last War in Albion's coming along, but probably not...
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Outside the Government: Ghost Machine
What do you mean I have to take the battery out to swapgames?It’s October 29th, 2006. McFly are at number one with “Star Girl,” with Beyonce, Razorlight, and Amy Winehouse also charting. In news,...
View ArticleOn Writing and Shape
I was trying to think through an aspect of writing that is generally instinctive to me, to try to figure out what, if anything about it could be taught. This resulted.A given piece of writing has what...
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Outside the Government: Cyberwoman
It's. Not. Funny.It’s November 5th, 2006, memorably enough. Fedde Le Grand are at number one with “Put Your Hands Up For Detroit,” while Beyonce, McFly, and U2 & Green Day also chart. In news since...
View ArticleThe High-Tech Lynching of Breanna Manning
Let us, given the shameful kowtowing on the part of the overwhelming bulk of the American media here, dispense with any illusion of subtlety lest we risk burying the lead. The individual the media at...
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Outside the Government: Small Worlds
Dance Magic Dance, O Human Child...It’s November 12th, 2006. Westlife are at number one with “The Rose,” with U2 & Green Day, Beyonce, Girls Aloud, and Madonna also charting. In news, Democrats...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (August 3rd, 2013)
Yes, there will be a Sunday Pancacking going up at the appropriate time. Until then...Jed Blue's My Little Po-Mo Kickstarter is just shy of a stretch goal as the days run out, and might be worth a few...
View ArticleSunday Pancaking (August 4th, 2013)
As promised your open thread to rail about how Doctor Who is basically over now that they've cast... well, whoever it is they've cast.Personally, and I'm writing this ages before it's actually...
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Outside the Government: Countrycide
Did you know that the New York Times Crossword Puzzlehas something called the "breakfast test," which declaresthat you can't use any words in a crossword that would beupsetting to read over breakfast?...
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