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All heroes fall in the end

I’ve spent more than a reasonable amount of time figuring out how to feel and move past the news concerning my one-time literary hero, Neil Gaiman. After a serious back and forth in my mind I arrived at the station marked, “All heroes fall in the end“. This might not …

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Fuller Names: Names that do more

You’ve heard of full names but let me introduce you to even fuller names. In Iain M. Banks‘s Culture novels, names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up [ref]. This got me thinking about the roles of names in the age of The …

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A character sketch clean up

I’ve been sketching ideas of late. Mostly to learn how to get the best out of my new brush-tip pens but also to shake off the rust from my (limited) art skills. This is a before and after of the digital clean-up of a mobile snap I took of one …

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Comment on WITNESS: Distopia or useful? A story idea. by Matthew Brown

In reply to <a href="https://writing.exchange/@golgaloth/113212177974513697">Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)</a>. Yeah, that is a bit of a weakness. WITNESS can only trestify to the car or bike. That said, for reasonable doubt it could be helpful (which could make it less apealing to governments).

Comment on WITNESS: Distopia or useful? A story idea. by Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)

<a href="https://matthewdbrown.authorbuzz.co.uk/author/lordmatt/" rel="ugc">@lordmatt</a> The main problem being that it only records the car, not the driver, so the evidence is circumstantial at best. It basically falls apart at the first hurdle as evidence of a person's location. The owner of the car may not necessarily been driving it.

WITNESS: Distopia or useful? A story idea.

WITNESS is a theoretical system that logs number plates in an encrypted database that can later give you a WITNESS statement if it saw a target car or bike at a given time. I could make it for real but I am mostly exploring the idea for fiction. I had …

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An excerpt from my Visual Novel, The Spell Collector

This is a snippet of dialouge from my upcoming Visual Novel (The Spell Collector) between the titular Wizard (W) and their assistant Brian (B). It appears after chapter zero. W: Tell me something Brian. B: What do you want to know teacher? W: I truly appreciate the assistance you have …

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A new serial story idea

This is in reply to: Writers, tell us about your WIP Yesterday I started writing a story. I called it “Cube”. It is about a person who one day discovered they have the ability to summon a large extra-dimensional space. My plan is to write each episode, take it to …

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Comment on Solving my murder mystery – part one by Matthew Brown

In reply to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@imalcolm/111669269847307022">Ian Malcolm</a>. Life does that sort of thing to me too. Thank you for being interested in the first place. It's nice to know people have noticed some of the stuff I put out on the old web.

Comment on Solving my murder mystery – part one by Ian Malcolm

<p><span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lordmatt" rel="nofollow ugc">@<span>lordmatt</span></a></span> </p><p>I've bookmarked this to have a read and follow along - I started out with best intentions of legit solving it, as I thought it was a great idea, but very quickly health issues, family issues and life in general got in the way... </p> <a href="https://matthewdbrown.authorbuzz.co.uk/lordmatt/news-and-updates/solving-my-murder-mystery-part-one/" rel="ugc"></a>

Solving my murder mystery – part one

In the update, I hinted that the first step was to resolve the guests and plus-ones. In this post, I am going to walk you through some of the clues and try to figure out who the guests and plus-ones were. Massive spoilers to follow. This is the grid that …

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Comment on Why the Earth moving is not a Time Traveller’s problem (probably) by Ixtli Dekami :coolified:⚾

#TimeTravelAuthors <a class="bp-suggestions-mention" href="https://authorbuzz.co.uk/members/lordmatt/" rel="nofollow ugc">@lordmatt</a> 5 & 6 take care of that here. We have the magic number (imagine a insanely long IP address) of the reality where…

Comment on Why the Earth moving is not a Time Traveller’s problem (probably) by Julie Bihn

<p><span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lordmatt" rel="nofollow ugc">@<span>lordmatt</span></a></span> Great writeup! My answer (publishing tomorrow, time forces and memory willing) isn't exactly like any of yours, I don't think, but my approach is most like #1, I think.</p> <a href="https://matthewdbrown.authorbuzz.co.uk/lordmatt/reflections-and-thoughts/why-the-earth-moving-is-not-a-time-travellers-problem-probably/" rel="ugc"></a>

Why the Earth moving is not a Time Traveller’s problem (probably)

For the 7th of December #TimeTravelAuthors question set by Julie Bihn, will be (unless any of you go back and change it) the question of the Earth moving. I shall make the case that this is not a problem at all. Or, rather, I will make several independent cases. “But …

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The Case for Silly-n-Fun Sci-Fi: A Manifesto

There is a sense you can get in some quarters that Sci-Fi that isn’t serious (Hard Sci-Fi) is (in some gatekeeper way) invalid. I’m calling BS on that right here. Soft Sci-Fi is still Sci-Fi. Fans of the hardest Sci-Fis might not like it but the world does not turn …

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Do you need more murder mystery clues?

The murder mystery logic game had its last update at the end of last week. In theory, this is enough clues to solve the case and identify the killer. Theory is all well and good but do you need more clues? Speak up now because I am planning the reveal …

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