“If sacrificing the many for the one isn’t logical, but sacrificing one for the many is, why must we writers murder so many of our darlings?” Michael Sirois, March 2021 Standard Disclaimer: Please post a comment below if you would like to. All comments are personally moderated by a grouchy old guy, though, so posts …
[Originally posted on my previous website, michael dot sirois dot com] When plotting and planning my writing, I am often given to stochastic thoughts and inconsequential ramblings which will, hopefully (someday) further develop into something concrete, so I thought we ought to take a look at the word stochastic. Etymology of stochastic From Ancient Greek …
[Originally posted on my previous website, michael dot sirois dot com] It’s a Latin phrase, meaning an insatiable desire to write. Cacoethes can be translated as either a bad habit or a malignant disease. The phrase originally comes from a line in Juvenal’s Satires, “Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes,” which translates as something like “the …
Random Thought “I always inhale before I exhale. Now I’d like to inspire before I expire.” Michael Sirois, April 2014 Standard Disclaimer: Please post a comment below if you would like to. All comments are personally moderated by a grouchy old guy, though, so posts by self-promotional schemers, spammers, and lunatic ranters won’t make …