Archive for the 'writing_projects' Category

Jan 02 2009

Interesting treatment for a story:

Published by jrittenhouse under USA, writing_projects

A good friend who has tons of cool ideas and never gets around to going much with them came over for the New Years’ party with a story treatment and basis.   It’s really stirred me up as to where this could go; it’s not alternate history, but more a mix of hidden history and political [...]

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Dec 13 2008

Signs #21:

Published by jrittenhouse under gates, signs, spacetime

“Time is an Illusion, Teatime Doubly So.”

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Aug 14 2008

The Bulwer-Lyttons and a Sisterfarish tale:

One of the finalists:
As she watched the small form swing backwards and forth from the crystal chandelier - hands on hips, sniffing the air and squeaking inaudibly - it suddenly became clear to Madame de Pompomme that she had done the wrong thing asking Jacques to find and bring back her long-lost sister: for, whilst [...]

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Jul 04 2008

How to move an island:

…on LOST (spoilers for the end of 4th season)
The surprising answer, in physics, is yes … sort of. The trick is that you don’t really move the island. Rather, you change its space-time connection to the rest of the Earth.

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Jul 03 2008

Projects: overview

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak.
My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]

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Jun 17 2008

Duckon 2008:

Still tired from the con; the entire family went minus Grandma Connie but including my visiting niece Kelbi, who decided to volunteer for the childcare room, and worked her butt off there! ( I think she racked up 15 hours…very dedicated.) She didn’t want the con, she wanted the kids!
Well, chacun a [...]

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May 03 2008

Dubious Influences in History:

The you-little-schmuck theory of history, from TIME magazine:
We all know about Carlyle’s Great Man theory of history, but what about the Creepy Guy Behind the Curtain theory of history or the Meddlesome Housemaid Who Spikes the Punch theory or the Wife Who Whispers in the Great Man’s Ear theory?
History is written by the victors, but [...]

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May 02 2008

For those who do mapping:

…especially for Role Playing game mappers, I’m looking for thoughts on which software they think works the best for doing up maps…I just ran into my receipt for NBOS Fractal Mapper 6, and I have a full and updated Campaign Cartographer set, but I have never fooled with it to get going with the mapping [...]

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Apr 26 2008

The Tachy Theory:

Written originally for Roger Reynolds’ FUTURE FOCUS around 1979, it’s a piece I did on FTL travel, and of course, is probably wildly out of date or inaccurate.  Enjoy.
jar_tachy_time_travel_1979 (PDF, 1.6M)

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Apr 26 2008

Jackie on Feral Cats:

My mom, Jackie Randolph, was a multi-talented character; she was a veterinarian, had a fine arts degree (in art, but she was an good singer and pianist) and probably the person who inspired me the most in practically any intellectual pursuit - including history, politics, being a news junkie, and so on.  List is very [...]

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Feb 28 2008

Meredith the writer:

Published by jrittenhouse under meredith, writing_projects

My reading of the first five chapters of Mere’s new story, Story Traveler (about 3 minutes, 2.5 M, mp3 format).  The reading’s a little rough, but you’ll get the idea.

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Mar 20 2007

Big laminate:

I’m looking for a good place in the area (western Chicago suburbs vastly preferred) to laminate a pair of star maps. 23 by 35 inches. Nice stuff, and I don’t want it damaged. (Susan thinks I want them framed - heck, no, I’m gonna use these suckers.)
Tyge, you should check these [...]

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Dec 01 2006

AH projects: The New China

For the next issue of Point of Divergence, I’m working on a set of things that - well, they may seem to be very different, but the do have a semi-convergence somewhere-out-there.
Number one is a project on China. I’ve been doing a huge amount of research on China for the last seven years; lots [...]

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