richardatlarge

Some damning numbers re: clinical treatment

Necessarily but not sufficient, yes

Many hundreds of hours of reading will build your vocabulary, and tune your ear to the sound of a good sentence. But it will not make you a writer.

Reading as a person wanting to become a better writer should be more conscience of what they are reading. I often finish a novel and can't even remember if it was narrated, or how. That is not careful reading.

I've heard of authors who, went waiting for their muse, just copied novels they liked until they got back in the groove, and this usually helped.

Practice makes practice. Deliberate practice makes...

Funny how bias works

Something questioned by millions is treated as gospel, and one program asking questions is controversial

This alone reveals the power of myth

As the author of Ritalin Nation I can only say Bravo

In the 1950's, gallup polling had chewing gum and cutting the queue the biggest problems in school; where was ADHD then?

Putting symptoms in a psychiatry manual is toxic. Put them in the environment and history

Nonsense. Forget proofreaders. Think editors. In publishing some editors practically wrote the books. And then theres ghostwriting ! Think of that!

Quaint article you won't see in a few years, when everything with be about weather and climate. Nothing else will matter. Welcome to the apocalypse

Japanese live for the afterlife, but know there isn't one, so it's coming apart.

America's greatest achievement is to last as long as it has while inverting all common sense. What is the fatal seed, I often wonder. I think this article suggests what it is. The role of the car in its fabric suggests it's hyper-individualism: a myth that the more untethered the self it, the more it will thrive. Hogwash

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean your wrong

This was also the premise in an AI themed novel last year, A Better Spy (Richard DeGrandpre).

A Russian AI is weaponized and the CIA recruits a Russian engineer to try to stop it