In case you’re wondering what’s happened to your writers’ group, it’s been in transit recently. Yes, the electrons are being borrowed and routed from a completely different locale altogether, and I’m no longer able to jump on my unsuspecting neighbors’ wireless networks. Dang it. I was getting pretty comfy with the communal bandwidth thing. Serves me right, I guess, that
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Busy today. A bit crazed, in fact. I’d like to say I’m good on days like these, but I’m not. In truth, they make me retreat into fantasy. Anything to escape… "Do you have the time," the clock asks, no doubt amused by the irony in his statement, I’m sure. Cheeky clocks are forever messing with me for no apparent
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I’m not going to belabor the point about the dangers of the Internet. It’s a moot point. No sense resuscitating the argument about the supposed digital destruction of our world…. Whether or not you believe that, the entire point is that the digital age is here to stay and it’s changing everything. We all know this, but we don’t know
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Have you heard the term hypertext? Basically, when you do this, you’re creating hypertext. Hypertext fiction is online fiction with hypertext linked in and it’s gaining ground in university creative writing programs around the country as a unique, postmodern form—some are saying THE last great frontier in what can reasonably be called the "novel." It’s definitely got the typical "cool"
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Today I want to offer you a glimpse of an Interview with Brian McLaren that appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette. To appreciate what McLaren is doing here, you have to understand the tightrope he’s walking between his proponents and detractors. It’s a very delicate thing. But he threads the needle with such panache (to mix a metaphor), I just
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