From my article here. Wikipedia’s article about A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court gets details of the plot rather wrong. But this bit is interesting: these are stories written about people transported to the past with modern knowledge, but who didn’t succeed it putting it to use:( Read the rest of this entry » )

I am reading, once again, a book from about 130 years ago accessible here: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain. Among many remarkable aspects of the book is protagonist Hank Morgan’s self-description from Chapter 3:

I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut-anyway, just over the river, in ( Read more... )

Earlier this month, a horde of would-be writers descended en masse upon a website test called "I Write Like"-which purported to tell you which great talent your writing most resembled. A friend in a writing group I belong to noted that she wrote like Dan Brown, according to the site. I tried several examples I had of her writing, and got a ( Read more... )