November 2016

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I added some Pages at the top that enable you to go to specific genre categories of my writing without having to scroll a billion inches down to find what you’re looking for. Like Fiction? Then click on the Fiction button. Etcetera. Why are you reading this instead? Go! (Smart phone users: Click on that little 3-bar

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We have a winner! Congrats to Don Sutton, the winner of the first ever *Writing Bad* competition! (See the Comments section below for the other 2 entries in full. They’re good too.) I enlisted three writing professors (who also like fun stuff) to judge the entries without any names attached, so it was all as

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Explanation: I have for a while now been working on a series of short plays based loosely on historical events and/or famous historical figures. I call the collection “This Sort of Happened.” This is one I wrote about a real incident involving Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. I used 2 or 3 lines from the

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I believe in the lessons of the Enlightenment: Human is human. Period. I believe that tendencies from the Right or Left to forget these lessons can and do lead to atrocities (regardless of intent), and could eventually lead to the extermination of all humans if unchecked. I believe there are sometimes bad actors among humans,

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I do not hate you. I do not think you dig Nazis. I do not think you want to eat babies or massacre unicorns with a chainsaw. I assume, like me, you want this world to be a better place. I assume, like me, you come to your beliefs on the heels of years of experience,