Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Still no updates on the game yet. If you smell smoke drifting from Virginia between 8p and midnight EST, that’s not a forest fire. That’s my brain melting during Scribes Emerge edits. Hopefully it can resume its normal operating temperature soon. 🧠🔥🔥🔥 Incendiary Insects Speaking of fires and melting, you probably noticed… Continue reading Exploding Beetles
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Sand vs Soil vs Dirt – What’s the Difference?
Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing on this front yet. My face is still wedged into Scribes Emerge edits. Let’s get Geological Mallory gently rapped me over the skull to ask why I hadn’t written a geology article in a while. I had no good answer, so here we are. Talking about rocks again. Or are we?… Continue reading Sand vs Soil vs Dirt – What’s the Difference?
The Problem With Waste Heat
Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: I’m still revising Scribes Emerge. As soon as I’m done, I plan to add another area to the game and sprinkle in some more names. Yours might be among them if you were one of the early reviewers. My regular farmer’s market has been on break since Dec 21st, so I’ve had many consecutive Saturdays… Continue reading The Problem With Waste Heat
How to Convert Heat into Electricity
Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still revising Scribes Emerge. If you’d like to be a beta reader, please let me know, but it would be a massive help if you read Scribes’ Descent and Scribes Aflame first. I hope you had a merry Christmas and have something fun planned for New Year’s Eve. I will… Continue reading How to Convert Heat into Electricity
How to Learn a Foreign Language, part 3
Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still revising Scribes Emerge. If you’d like to be a beta reader, please reply and let me know, but it would be a massive help if you read Scribes’ Descent and Scribes Aflame first. New Release! Eight of my writing inspiration articles and flash fiction stories have been included in a… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, part 3
How to Learn a Foreign Language, Part 2
Fellow Science Lovers, We’re picking up where last month’s newsletter left off. How to Learn a Foreign Language, Part 1 If you haven’t read it, it’ll give you some context, but it isn’t required to understand this one. Listening Practice In addition to making yourself speak your new language, you should listen to a lot of it… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, Part 2
How to Learn a Foreign Language, part 1
Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still engrossed with Scribes Emerge edits. Most of my characters learn foreign languages, and I imagine many of you are, too. That’s why I’ll devote the next few articles to the question: How do you learn a foreign language? That’ll give us a nice break from all the… Continue reading How to Learn a Foreign Language, part 1
Metal Donuts in Space
Fellow Science Lovers, Game update: Nothing to report this month. I’m still engrossed with Scribes Emerge edits. Metal Donuts? In Terrific Tomorrows, which has my short story called A Cartoon Saves the Universe, we see this line: “A million people live on this station, which looks like two halves of a metal donut connected by a long cable. I don’t feel it… Continue reading Metal Donuts in Space
How Does Bioluminescence Work?
Fellow Science Lovers, Book update: I’ve published a short story! You can read A Cartoon Saves the Solar System in the Terrific Tomorrows anthology. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D915GBZZ I’ve read the other stories in this book. All are clean and easy to read. Many are good, while a few are excellent. Recommended for ages 8 and up. I’ll also be selling signed copies… Continue reading How Does Bioluminescence Work?
What’s an apeirohedron?
Fellow Science Lovers, Gaming update: No updates this time. I’m absorbed with writing and revising Scribes Emerge. Geometric Journey In Scribes’ Descent, we find this headscratcher: Mallory reclined against a sloped column and took in the surreal maze of her surroundings, her fear tapering off into wonder. She’d studied similar shapes in advanced geometry, but never imagined… Continue reading What’s an apeirohedron?