#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 2: What do you dislike as reader and thus avoid in your own work?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 2: What do you dislike as reader and thus avoid in your own work?
TOO MANY CLICHEs!
I began work on a space opera in 2015 and as prep I wrote up a taxonomy of cliches in space opera, just so I could avoid them. It's a LONG list, and it's not even exhaustive!
Note that writing a space opera that accounts for all these cliches—either by avoiding them or by deploying them with deliberation—is not difficult. They're a symptom of sloppy writing.
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/towards-a-taxonomy-of-cliches-.html
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 2: What do you dislike as reader and thus avoid in your own work?
TOO MANY CLICHEs!
I began work on a space opera in 2015 and as prep I wrote up a taxonomy of cliches in space opera, just so I could avoid them. It's a LONG list, and it's not even exhaustive!
Note that writing a space opera that accounts for all these cliches—either by avoiding them or by deploying them with deliberation—is not difficult. They're a symptom of sloppy writing.
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/03/towards-a-taxonomy-of-cliches-.html
@cstross Poul Anderson was pretty good about astrogeology issues, especially given his timeframe.
Re "You can keep a starship crew healthy and sane indefinitely using a life support system running on blue-green algae, tilapia, and maybe the odd soy bean plant", I wonder if a natural limiter on fascist space programs will be the lack of Manly Beef and Coffee.
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We report halfway through the month-long sunset that is December. We go through the days trying out different flavours of endings, and in this continuous fade-out, rain is present on almost each of those days. We weave our way around curtains of water and light.
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The original Mozilla "Dinosaur" logo artwork.
It has come to my attention that the artwork for the original mozilla.org "dinosaur" logo is not widely available online. So, here it is. As I explained in some detail in my 2016 article "They Live and the...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0j
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Laser Cutter Plus CYMK Spraypaint Equals Full-Color Prints
This is one of those fun hacks that come about from finding a product and going “I wonder if I could…” — in this case, artist/YouTuber [Wesley Treat] found out his favourite vendor makes spray cans in CYMK colours– that is the Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and blacK required for subtractive printing. Which got him wondering: can I make full-colour prints with this paint?
The MDF-based print, with naive half-tone dots.
His answer was “yes”, and the process to do so is fairly simple. First, split the image into colour channels, generate a half-tone pattern for each one, and carve it out of MDF on the laser. Then spray the MDF with the appropriate colour spray paint. Press the page against each block in turn, and voila! A full colour print block print, albeit at very low DPI compared to your average inkjet.Now, you might be wondering, why half-tone instead of mixing? Well, it turns out that these CYMK paints are too opaque for that to work in a block-printing process. At least with a naive spray technique; [Weseley] does admit a very fine mist might be able to make that work. The second question is why not just hook the rattle cans into a CNC machine for a paint-based mega inkjet? That’s a great question and we hope someone tries it, but [Weseley] evidently likes block-printing so he tried that first.
The Mylar stencil print, with a more artistic half-tone pattern.
Laser-ablating enough MDF away to make decent print blocks took too long for [Weseley]’s tastes, however, so he switched to using mylar stencils. Instead of spraying a block and pressing onto it, the paint is sprayed through the stencil. The 10 mil Mylar not only cuts faster, but can support finer detail. Though the resulting prints loose some of the artistic flair the inconsistencies block printing brings, it probably looks better.If you prefer to skip the manual paint-can-handling, perhaps we can interest you in a spray-can plotter. If you do like manually flinging paint, perhaps you could try this dot-painting spray can attachment, for a more self-directed half-tone.
Thanks to [Keith Olson] for the tip.
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