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John Scalzi
American
Author
Born:
May 10
,
1969
Because
People
Think
Will
Writing
You
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I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
John Scalzi
Good
People
Will
Different Opinions
Think
Opinions
Still
Coming
Malice
Different
Place
I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.
John Scalzi
Happy
Reading
Young
Fine
Folks
Magazines
Online
Fact
Anime
Perfectly
Read
Print
Doing
Opposed
Traditional
Lots
Manga
Wanting
Things
Watch
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
John Scalzi
Car
Jigsaw
Jigsaw Puzzle
Puzzle
Hit
Which
Turned
Right
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
John Scalzi
Will
Say
Because
Blog
Sales
Dictate
Want
Figures
I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.
John Scalzi
Love
Universe
Trek
Medium-Sized
Say
Would
Fan
Created
Star
Star Trek
The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.
John Scalzi
Way
Outline
Write
Part
Along
Particular
Discovering
Going
Just
Happening
Story
Fun
Novels
People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.
John Scalzi
People
World
Worried
Out
Able
About
Participate
How
Get
Disease
Bodies
I don't keep a Bucket List. I'm open to anything.
John Scalzi
Open
Bucket
List
Anything
Keep
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
John Scalzi
Attention Span
People
Writing
Try
Will
Tolerance
Find
Bored
Boredom
Something
Attention
Read
Reader
Very
Get
Handy
Short
Short Attention Span
Pity
Span
Low
Then
Who
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.
John Scalzi
Me
Humorists
William
Inspired
Writers
Outside
Like
Most
Robert
Genre
James
Mike
Molly
Who
Many
Ben
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
John Scalzi
Space
Internet
Reddit
Privately
Square
Owned
Public
Utility
Personally speaking, when everything is boiled down to the marrow, I think the reason Reddit tolerates the creepy forums has to do with money more than anything else.
John Scalzi
Money
Down
Think
Else
Everything
Marrow
More
More Than Anything
Reddit
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Personally
Speaking
Reason
Forum
Creepy
I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
John Scalzi
Culture
People
Mine
Bit
Has-Been
About
Over
Know
She
Talked
Concerns
Course
Deaf
Because
Deaf People
Issues
Been
Years
Friend
Little
Little Bit
Many
Awhile
By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.
John Scalzi
Future
Time
Technology
Man
Eyes
Humanity
Will
Think
Cleaned
Announce
New
How
Hip
Up
Itself
Wont
Just
Us
Works
Laser
Creep
By The Time
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