Scientist Gone Wordy

I was recently reading a book that was somewhere in the vicinity of 500 pages. It was holding my attention well at first but eventually...

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16. For the first time in his life, he found himself imagining a future together with someone. He was embarrassed to tell her this but he ...

I recently read The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat (pub. 1984) and was pretty astonished at the language used by a scientist and non-fi...

I was hunting around for the character list* from The Luminaries , and came by this fantastic article by Eleanor Catton. I love th is ty...

Here's the link . Populating a world with men, with male heroes, male people, and their “women cattle and slaves” is a political act....

This is a great interview of Rebecca Skloot with its main topic being structure. Very interesting stuff.

My first post was on Jan 19, 2009 (and in it i complained about fb! jeez! you'd think in almost three years i could have rustled up some...

I'm making this tart right now (using figs and pears from our CSA box) and it makes me think I don't have a clear idea of what a ta...

So sgwordy entered the lair of Achievement Whoring and asked the good Dr to share his Levels of Death theory. Enjoy! (NOTE: It's pro...

So sgwordy entered the lair of Achievement Whoring and asked the good Dr to share his Levels of Death theory. Enjoy! Dr Musacha says......

This article waxed a bit poetic for my taste but I loved the section on verbs: The passive voice in particular was a crisis. “Was” only t...

Sometime in the past year I had a eureka moment in reading. It was the moment I recognized the genius of what I'm going to call Implied ...

Didn't get to my sandwich yet but when doing some online research I found this bit of awesomeness: In a science fiction novel, if I de...