Sturgeon’s Law is an adage that states “ninety percent of everything is crap”. It means that most things produced in any field are worthless or of low quality. For example, Sturgeon’s Law says that 90% of books are of low quality.  Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author and critic, coined the phrase. He came to the conclusion

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I’m in a bad mood today. I don’t want to write because I don’t want the mood to infect my writing. I wish Snape was here.

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Along with my writing I’ll be posting things that interest me. This guy rides the NY subways and does drawings of fellow passengers. I like the pleased reactions of the subjects. I think that having their portrait done takes them from feeling that today is just another day to making them feel special.

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Here’s a Sci-Fi, maybe a Horror story idea. New York city has a hundred thousand asylum seekers. The small city where I live has a lot of Seekers too. There is no place to put them. There are a lot of abandoned and dying towns in the USA. Why not send them to these places?

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I decided to keep on writing the book. Meanwhile on another topic; At my advanced age, I’ve seen one disaster after another come and go. Wars, famines, droughts, diseases, and so on. Somehow humans pull through. Will climate change be the real deal? I don’t know. The Earth is a huge complex natural machine. You

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I’m giving up on the book.

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A friend of mine is in Facebook jail. I have been in Facebook jail. In case you didn’t know, Facebook jail means that you posted something on Facebook that doesn’t meet their “Community Guidelines.” They then take away your ability to post anything new for a specified period. The posts that put me in FB

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From what I can gather online there are two kinds of writers. Pantsers and Plotters. A Panster makes the story up as he goes along. A Plotter writes down all the events in the story before he writes a word of the story. I’m a Pantser. The reason I mention this is that my story

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I started this Journal with the idea that maybe somebody out there might be interested in my adventures in writing. I can see now that’s not the case. It looks to me that this Journal is just an ego trip. But who knows? Maybe I’ll finish the book, maybe I’ll sell a few copies, and

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Sometimes it’s necessary to include politics as part of the story. I do not like to include politics in a story, but sometimes the story wants it. Politics is a nasty business full of nasty people. There are some nice people in politics. Very few of them though. You can usually tell a writer’s politics

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