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M..
It's a Goodreads artifact. Apparently their system can't handle authors with the same name (though they appear to manage just fine with same-named readers). They already had an 'M' and an 'M.', so they gave me 'M..' It gets stranger still in messages where where they double it up to 'M.. M..' My nom de plume is just 'M'.
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Never had it :)
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Non-fiction: You have time to develop your arguments into their most convincing form. You let your imagination run unfettered for a while, then refine it into something that actually works.
Fiction: You let your imagination run wild forever! You get to invent worlds slightly different than the one we live in.
Fiction: You let your imagination run wild forever! You get to invent worlds slightly different than the one we live in.
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Know your audience. And when you discover they don't see the world quite like you thought, adjust.
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I had a few more non-fiction projects already outlined in philosophy/science/religion. But I've been genuinely surprised by how much interest I've gotten on GoodReads from readers who primarily prefer fiction. Humans like stories :) So I'm currently toying with the idea of putting some of these ideas into a novel.
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It just comes naturally.
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Many of the issues that I've written about in this book come from discussions with my scientifically literate friends and colleagues here in Cambridge and greater Boston. Not a very representative sampling of humans generally :) What's new for me here is an experiment in seeing whether I can convey that same sense of wonder to general readers who have no background in biology or philosophy.
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