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Inventing: When an idea comes
A friend suggested that I share some of my process. These aren’t drafted and revised notes or commentaries, as you saw with my “What if No Watergate?” post. Instead, this is simply the raw notes as they come out of my head. For some brief context, this is something I wrote down earlier today and…
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On this day in alternate history: August 14, 1980
On August 14, 1980, Senator Edward M. Kennedy accepted the Democratic nomination for the United States presidency. It was an historic moment for many reasons. It was the reintroduction of Camelot. His defeat of incumbent president Jimmy Carter also marked the first time in nearly 100 years that an incumbent president actively sought and lost…
Matters of Fact in Fiction 