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Writing is not mysticism
For me, the whole process of writing is inevitably wrapped up in the discovery, invention, and revelation of knowledge. Writing calls something out of the darkness and into the light, and gives it a name. Writing, one might be tempted … Continue reading
Self published books have (almost) no quality control. Here’s something we can do about it.
Here’s a reason to support my Kickstarter campaign to hire an editor for my novels, which has nothing to do with me or my books. It’s that a lot of self published books, perhaps most of them, have almost no … Continue reading
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Bren’s Guide to Writing
My first advice is that you should fall in love with words, languages, and storytelling. Your language both limits and liberates you. Know how it works. Be a serious student of words, sentences, paragraphs, catchphrases, proverbs, tropes, neologisms, alliteration, rhyme, … Continue reading
Whatever happened to the pagan community statement on religious sexual abuse?
With yesterday’s revelation that the well-known pagan musician and author Kenny Klein had confessed to possessing child pornography, a criminal offence, there’s been a little bit of renewed interest in the “Community Statement on Religious Sexual Abuse” which I helped … Continue reading
A Straight White Male Writer Grapples With His Privilege
There are a lot of fantasy and sci-fi writers in my FB and Twitter feeds. And a lot of those writers are feminists, of one degree or another. So, I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion about white male privilege … Continue reading
The Fellwater Tales RPG – the new plan
In the fall of last year I ran a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to produce an urban fantasy RPG based on my fiction series. Financially speaking, the campaign failed. But here’s a little update on how I’m planning to … Continue reading
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The Sacred Lives In The Hearing
While researching a question about human nature and metaphysics (you know, as a young man about town is apt to do on a Saturday night), I began to wonder where the sacred lives. I define the sacred as “that which … Continue reading
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JK Rowling does care about writing, and that’s why she should keep doing it.
In the last day or so, I’ve been seeing a lot of this op/ed piece on The Huffington Post: If JK Rowling Cares About Writing, She Should Stop Doing It, by Lynn Shepherd. A brief summary of Shepherd’s thesis might … Continue reading
National Women’s Sports Day, February 20th.
This afternoon, I wrote the following letter to six of my Members of Parliament: —– Good day, My name is Dr. Brendan Myers. I am a professor of Philosophy at CEGEP Heritage College, in Gatineau, Quebec. I am also the … Continue reading
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How I Teach Philosophy Using Games
There are lots of ways in which the success of education cannot, and should not, be measured in a student’s final grade. But for various reasons, schools and colleges and the political establishments that fund them want to see a … Continue reading