I have not been very productive with my projects the last year or so. I hope that will change this year. I feel the problem I’ve had is that I keep jumping between projects and not getting much done on any of them. I’ve run into this in the past too. I really need to… Read Article →
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From time to time, when I watch some video, or listen to some music, I wonder what an extraterrestrial intelligence might think about us if that was the only piece of information they had. I blame that fascination on a short story I read by Arthur C. Clarke called “History Lesson”. It is sometimes called… Read Article →
I saw “Blade Runner: 2049” last week. The character Joi reminded me of a story idea I had many years ago that I called “Virtual John”. It was a story about the virtual resurrection of John Lennon. Joi In “Blade Runner: 2049”, Joi is a holographic artificial intelligence who acts as the protagonist’s girlfriend. While… Read Article →
As I contemplate some new projects, I’ve thought about how to develop characters. I’ve thought about this before, but it never hurts to revisit my approach. Character Tags I’ve found Lester Dent’s formula helped me a lot with my writing. I added his article to one of my earlier posts: https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/the-lester-dent-master-fiction-plot-test-drive/ In his article, Lester… Read Article →
After a long period away from my blog, I was somewhat surprised to see a rather big jump in visits over the last three months. I wonder why my website gets more views now. WordPress says I get much more views than Google Analytics says. I like what WordPress says better. Part of the discrepancy… Read Article →
A while ago I read a report about a fast food company owner who suggested that he could replace most, if not all, of his staff through automation. I thought, “how would he feel if he could be replaced by automation”. Is their work really that much more complicated that cooking hamburgers. My original idea… Read Article →
While I would like to just dive into one or another of my projects, I need to get some rather mundane pieces of work out of the way. It isn’t very inspiring work and some days I just want to rest and relax. This week I got started on a catalogue of all my videos…. Read Article →
One of the more difficult challenges you face when you create a story is that the hero needs to be smart enough to get out of a jam, but dumb enough to get into it in the first place. I wonder if an illness could be used to explain the lapse. I wrote about character… Read Article →
Recently I read that some scientists think that there may be planets more suitable to life than Earth. How does this relate to the Fermi Paradox? What is the Fermi Paradox? The Fermi Paradox comes from a question that the physicist Enrico Fermi asked during a discussion of flying saucers in the late 1940s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox… Read Article →
The Breakthrough Starshot proposal from Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner got me to think about ancient alien probes again. Their proposal adds a twist to my earlier thoughts. I’ve listed the ancient alien probe blog posts I did earlier at the bottom of this post. Hawking, Milner and their collaborators have proposed a plan to… Read Article →
