Aeristic Press

19/02/2024

https://links.truthsocial.com/link/111959959283051159

HEAVEN — Distinguished authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis have once again been sent to opposite corners of Heaven following a heated argument about the proper use of allegory.

21/05/2023

As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote.

07/05/2023

The only time I feel honest is when I'm writing fiction.

27/04/2023

Advice from a guy people say was good.

23/11/2022

A writer's got to impale his guts on the typewriter.

28/10/2022

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

24/10/2022

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, knowledge manifests itself in radiant dreams that shimmer like the wild sun.

A hit song from Dr. Demento. Includes also lyrics and i tried to make some funny pictures of them ^^

14/10/2022

Never insult a writer. You may wind up being immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

02/08/2022

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

31/07/2022

He who writes for fools always finds a large public.

21/07/2022

Stolen from the Daily Illuminator:

We are very sorry to report that Eric Flint, creator (among many other things) of the Ring of Fire series, died July 17 from complications of pneumonia. He was 75.

I didn't know Eric well enough to write the obit he deserves. I met him at LibertyCon and liked him immediately. He liked to play at being a "crusty old man," but dropped it immediately when something interesting came around . . . and Eric was interested in everything. As an author of hundreds of thousands of words of alternate history, he had a use for any piece of info that came his way. I had really looked forward to getting better acquainted as the GURPS Ring of Fire project progressed, and now that won't happen. (We definitely intend to move forward with GURPS Ring of Fire; I'm just sorry he won't be around to see it.)

The thing that impressed me most about Eric was his commitment to helping other writers. He came into the field late in his life, as a winner of the "Writers of the Future" project, and he wanted to give others the same kind of chance. Faced with a torrent of fan response – and fanfic! – for his bestselling 1632 series, he didn't close his door. Instead, he innovated! His Grantville Gazette e-zine and anthology series has introduced a number of new writers to print . . . while paying them a competitive rate and turning a profit, guaranteeing that it can continue.

People want to write, and people need to read! Eric knew that. All honor to him.

-- Steve Jackson

20/07/2022

You can either impose yourself on reality and then write about it, or you can impose yourself on reality by writing.

14/07/2022

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
Separator icon
Ray Bradbury

Snoopy, from the “Peanuts” comic strip, had a love-hate relationship with his typewriter. When science fiction author Ray Bradbury was asked to write an essay inspired by a Snoopy comic in 2012, he felt that conflicted relationship with the written word deep in his heart. Bradbury penned an essay about the flurries of rejections he received while trying to get his stories published, and then the breakthrough in his 40s when things started working out. He encouraged Snoopy to stay strong — though it seems like problems last forever, they will eventually subside, and we will come out the other side.

13/07/2022

Stant Litore

Stories give us opportunities to explore our instinctive responses to the other; vicariously, we discover opportunities to either welcome or reject the marvelous encounter with the other. Which we choose is then a matter of how limited or expansive our imagination might be. Like Lovecraft, we might stop at fear, or like Borges, we might hold all possibilities in magnificent tension, open our eyes, and say, "Well met by moonlight, stranger."

That is a gift—one of seven gifts that speculative fiction has for us in this dark hour. Often sold at bookstores as “science fiction and fantasy,” sometimes as horror, sometimes snuck into the shelves of “literary” fiction, speculative fiction simply means wonder stories. Fiction that speculates, that asks improbable questions, that indulges curiosity, that climbs back down the ladder to look at the strange thing that is approaching from behind, to face it without fear, to face it like Theseus facing the King Horse, holding out a lump of salt. These are the stories we need right now, and I want to talk with you about why, and what healing and opening of our hearts and imaginations might be possible if we allow it. We live in a time when we are being asked to accept stories told by people whose hearts are famished and grinchlike, stories that make us smaller; we are in such need of stories that make us bigger, stories that empower us to imagine larger worlds than the cages we have been constructing for ourselves. Stories that help us imagine that the fence between us and the other is no insurmountable barrier, and that all the fences and all the walls between us and our many kindred on this earth are unworthy of our respect, that we needn’t heed them, that it is better to break them, or tumble them, or clamber over them with a canteen of water, with a blanket to offer warmth, with ears ready to hear another’s story.

- from the opening chapter of On the Other Side of the Night
which you can get here: https://lnkd.in/g6vD8hD
Or on Amazon: https://lnkd.in/gBTmu-B

09/07/2022

28/05/2022

They're going to... to exterminate imagination... and... strangeness... they're building... death camps for our dreams...

20/05/2022

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

19/05/2022

It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you.

23/03/2022

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the o**y po**y, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In Nineteen Eighty-Four, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

16/03/2022

Enchiridion
eng-kə-RID-ee-ən
Part of speech: Noun
Origin: Ancient Greek, 16th century


1
A book containing essential information on a subject.



Examples of Enchiridion in a sentence

"Susan's prized possession is her mother's cookbook, an enchiridion of the family's favorite dishes."

"Sheila published an enchiridion about koalas' behavior and social habits."

15/03/2022

Libris satiari nequeo: et habeo plures forte quam oportet.

14/03/2022

March 14, 2022 – NATIONAL PI DAY – NATIONAL POTATO CHIP DAY – NATIONAL LEARN ABOUT BUTTERFLIES DAY – NATIONAL NAPPING DAY – NATIONAL WRITE DOWN YOUR STORY DAY – NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CRAFT DAY

01/03/2022

Force a writer to be brief and you force him to think clearly — if he can.

27/02/2022

Heus, modo itera omnia quae mihi nunc nuper narravisti, sed nunc Anglice?

23/02/2022

Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crud.

22/02/2022

In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?