This Writing Life

A few minutes ago, I finished watching the final episode in this season’s Doctor Who, starring Matt Smith. A satisfying and clever end to a great story. The show is an interesting one from a dramatic standpoint: good fiction will usually chart the journey of a character along a line describing his development. There should [...]

There are easy problems and there are hard problems. Examples of the former include building a space elevator, putting a man on the moon, and curing cancer. They are reducible to steps that make sense within our theoretical conception of how the world works. They are difficult but there is no reason, yet, to consider [...]