Daily Archives: August 3, 2018
New Books and ARCs, 8/3/18
Posted on August 3, 2018 17 Comments
As we’re easing into the first weekend of the last month of summer, here’s a nice, varied stack of new books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. What is making your eyes say “yes”? Tell us all in the comments.
Here’s a Lil’ Something I Wrote For Creative Writing Class
Posted on August 3, 2018 24 Comments
Hello, everyone! Today I will be sharing a short story I just wrote the other night for class. It had to be two and a half pages long, no more, no less, which was kind of difficult to make it fit perfectly into that amount of space, mostly because of pacing issues. This is also […]
The Gamification of Rhetoric
Posted on August 3, 2018 43 Comments
I posted a thought earlier on Twitter today and I’ll repost it here in non-tweet form: It’s really frustrating to me that more people don’t understand that racist/alt-right people have gamified their rhetoric; they’re not interested in discussion, they’re slapping down cards from a “Debate: The Gathering” stack, and the only goal is taking heads. […]
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