Daily Archives: March 24, 2016
Reader Request Week 2016 #7: Writers and Ego
Posted on March 24, 2016 7 Comments
Patricia Ruggles asks: You’ve confessed before to being at least somewhat egotistical. Do you think it’s possible to be a successful writer if you don’t have a pretty big ego? Writing is notoriously solitary, and requires long periods of continuous performance without a lot of positive reinforcement. Doesn’t take a pretty good opinion of yourself […]
Reader Request Week 2016 #6: Why I Don’t Drink or Use Drugs
Posted on March 24, 2016 78 Comments
There are a couple of people in the thread who asked this, so I’ll just use Thomas Hewlett’s question to represent them: You’ve mentioned several times that you don’t drink alcohol. I do a lot of work with addiction/recovery and I’m wondering about your relationship to alcohol and drugs and what led to your decision […]
The Big Idea: Jim Ottaviani
Posted on March 24, 2016 4 Comments
His was one of the first intelligences behind the concept of artificial intelligence, and yet Alan Turing is defined not only by what he said on the topic, but also by what he never got the chance to say. Jim Ottaviani, author of the graphic novel The Imitation Game (Leland Purvis, illustrator), graces this site […]
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