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THE EPIC GILGAMEK 35: THE HAND OF PEACE
SOME WORDS ON BEING GUAPA
Dec 31, 2025
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THE FAILED WORLDBUILDING OF SINNERS: THE VAMPIRE PLOT
Sinners wants the vampire but not the worldbuilding required for a vampire to make sense.
Dec 28, 2025
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK 34: THE PRINCESS, MY DESTINATION
In Which We Are Introduced To The Most Pulchritudinous Princess on the Planet!
Dec 24, 2025
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THE WORLDBUILDING OF SINNERS: THE FORT SIEGE PLOT
The Brits might have taught the world the Marriage Plot, but the US taught the world the settler colonial Fort Siege Plot
Dec 21, 2025
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK 33: A PRINCE IN WAITING
When Castes Collide
Dec 16, 2025
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WORLDBUILDING 101: PERVASIVE, DETERMINATIVE AND THE LIMINAL GENIUS OF ATWOOD'S THE HANDMAID'S TALE
ATWOOD'S NOVEL HIDES A BRILLIANT WORLDBUILDING STRATEGY
Dec 13, 2025
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK 32: HOMETOWN HERO
A WARRIOR RESTS NOT ON THEIR LAURELS
Dec 10, 2025
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INTRODUCING ONE OF THE GREATEST IMMIGRANT NOVELS EVER WRITTEN - OSCAR HIJUELOS'S OUR HOUSE IN THE LAST WORLD
What Hijuelos accomplishes in this novel (and what few other works of literature have come close to matching) is one of the truest portraits of the…
Dec 7, 2025
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK 31: BRYRON AT HIS BACK
IN WHICH BATTLE MAKES FRIENDS OF FOES
Dec 2, 2025
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November 2025
YOUR VERY OWN DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS - or WHY YOU SHOULD READ BAD TO WRITE GOOD
SO MUCH OF WRITING FOR ME IS NOT LABORING TO PRODUCE GENIUS BUT FIGHTING TO PERSEVERE DESPITE THE WACKNESS OF MY OWN TALENTS
Nov 29, 2025
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK 30: DEATH TO ALL MORLOKS!
In Which We Are Learn About the Foe Race and Gilgamek Becomes the Fire
Nov 26, 2025
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SO YOU FEEL LIKE QUITTING WRITING FOREVER - or QUIT, GRENADE, MOMENTUM
Paradoxically it was quitting the writing, quitting for years, that ultimately confirmed that I had to stick with it.
Nov 23, 2025
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