Musings from Home of the Just Plain Weird. My backyard patio is coming along—a little slower with the arrival of hot weather—but still progressing nicely. I find at this stage I must saw every board separately. My cat lies down to watch. That is, he lays himself down. Seen, saw. Lie, lay. Enough, trough, though. I don’t envy newcomers to English. Russian and Arabic, despite their complexities, are almost always pronounced exactly as written, assuming that one accustomed to English pronunciation can pronounce anything correctly in those languages. I can’t even understand Britishers when they speak. Their tones are all off.

Here’s my take on The Mistakes That Beginner’s Make in writing sci-fi novels. I saw these errors and bad habits over and over. The first and biggest mistake... [posted in The Dream]