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I have a banged up 5-yr-old laptop on which I play FIFA 11, which lags from time to time, but still good to kill stress.

I used to be a freelance editor. If you want a really good, versatile editor look for certified editors. "Sfep" is a very popular place, and their roster typically contains highly competent and intelligent editors. If an editor you can afford offers substantive or developmental editing services...

Dreams are terribly fascinating. Have you considered Freud and Lacan's ideas about dreams? They make for excellent ruminating sessions. If Freud and Lacan seem a little too abstract, Hanif Kureishi's novels and essays explore such things as dreams, desires, fantasies, and the interplay between...

Just picked up Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire, though I haven't read any other book from the Foundation series. This reads well as a standalone, and there is plenty of food for thought. Also almost done with Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: been wanting to read this for so long, but only...

This is not fantasy, but the most gripping book I've read of late is Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge. I wish he'd publish just one more book, seeing as he is in his eighties now. I'm sure there's plenty of unpublished material he can whip up into a book after more than six decades of writing.

+1 for critique circle. It's also a huge forum; there's plenty going on at any given time.

Though I don't listen to music while writing, I do listen to a lot of music when I'm thinking of what I've read or written. One of my favorite pieces for this is Lazar Berman's Le ma dus pays (). Yes, I found out about this piece through Haruki Murakami's "Colorless Tsukuru." Murakami translates...

The trouble with using race as a classifying principle is that it (race) has been used as a way to stigmatize and endanger certain "races." Even most physical and biological anthropologists today use race mainly in the genetic-historic context, as frames of reference to well-established genetic...

thanks!

Thank you! And well said about genres being a sort of guide to look for new works of particular styles. Really useful way to look at genres.

I signed up a while back, but just got around to posting. Hope you're all staying safe and well. Looking forward to interesting conversations here. I consider myself more of a reader than a writer, and I read anything really. From Gaiman to Murakami; from Zadie Smith to newspaper comics. Genre...