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tails beyond what i ve read in the tributes from her online friends just coming out now but i m gutted when someone disappears from the internet it doesn t necessarily mean anything i m proof of that but it could it could mean she s entered a dark place and can t reach out it could mean she s being systemically cut off from her support system i wish so much we could have helped keep that star shining we would have done all we were able to had we known you mattered chris we will miss the warm light that was you posted by jjdebenedictis at 7 03 2013 10 39 00 a m sunday january 01 2012 reading list 2012 books i read in 2012 ratings out of 10 consider 6 to be the minimum of what i expect a published book to be among others by jo walton finished book on september 13 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 5 enjoyability 6 5 the last four things by paul hoffman finished book on august 14 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 7 enjoyability 7 5 the left hand of god by paul hoffman finished book on august 10 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 7 enjoyability 7 5 advent by james treadwell finished book on july 26 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 6 5 enjoyability 7 broken blade by kelly mccullough finished book on july 10 2012 quality of writing 6 quality of story 6 5 enjoyability 7 the minority council by kate griffin finished book on june 10 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 8 enjoyability 8 casket of souls by lynn flewelling finished book on june 3 2012 quality of writing 7 5 quality of story 7 5 enjoyability 7 5 twenty palaces by harry connolly finished book on may 20 2012 quality of writing 7 5 quality of story 8 enjoyability 8 circle of enemies by harry connolly finished book on may 18 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 8 enjoyability 8 5 the way of shadows by brent weeks finished book on may 12 2012 quality of writing 7 5 quality of story 7 5 enjoyability 7 5 blackbirds by chuck wendig finished book on may 5 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 7 enjoyability 7 the alchemist of souls by anne lyle finished book on may 2 2012 quality of writing 7 5 quality of story 8 enjoyability 8 comment a cracking good read the once and future king by t h white finished book on apr 29 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 6 5 enjoyability 6 5 comment it took me forever to get through this well written endearing but not really my cup of tea the road by cormac mccarthy finished book on mar 13 2012 quality of writing 9 quality of story 8 enjoyability 7 5 perfume the story of a murderer by patrick suskind finished book on feb 28 2012 quality of writing 8 quality of story 7 5 enjoyability 7 5 a rope of thorns by gemma files finished book on feb 21 2012 quality of writing 8 5 quality of story 6 enjoyability 6 5 ready player one by ernest cline finished book on jan 22 2012 quality of writing 6 5 quality of story 7 5 enjoyability 8 on stranger tides by tim powers finished book on jan 22 2012 quality of writing 7 5 quality of story 7 5 enjoyability 7 5 posted by jjdebenedictis at 1 01 2012 12 01 00 a m monday november 14 2011 from the query goblin my protector the calling by hope roberson hope roberson has graciously allowed the goblin to massage the query for my protector the calling please pop by and see say what you think query 38 my protector the calling by hope roberson posted by jjdebenedictis at 11 14 2011 06 09 00 p m thursday october 20 2011 from the query goblin the river by anonymous literary fiction an anonymous author has graciously allowed the goblin to massage the query for the river please pop by and see say what you think query 37 the river by anonymous posted by jjdebenedictis at 10 20 2011 02 26 00 p m labels query_goblin sunday september 25 2011 don t second guess your gut anyone who follows me on twitter probably witnessed my abject geek spasm at the possibility of seeing as sarah laurenson phrased it a flaming schoolbus cross the sky i e the uars satellite as it flamed out in the atmosphere y see it was gonna be passing right over me at the time it was estimated to be due to bite the atmosphere unfortunately uars proved to be a ninja satellite no one saw it sneak in that tricksy metal minx but that s okay i found something of equal geeky worth to tell you about tonight wired posted this article about making hard decisions which led me to this article about intuitive thinking the second article mentions some interesting experiments and the one i found most intriguing was where they noted that if you ask people to answer the following are these sentences literally true some jobs are snakes some jobs are jails some roads are snakes their response times slow down measurably on the second and third sentences in fact you probably noticed that effect yourself when you were reading the three sentences the knowledge that the second and third may be metaphorically be true interrupted your determination of whether they were literally true that s because your type 1 or intuitive thinking is very fast and often provides more information than is actually available it s the type of thinking that makes associations that provides leaps of logic that fills in the blank spots type 2 thinking requires more effort but it gives you answers based on the evidence that is really there to quote the article type 1 is automatic effortless often unconscious and associatively coherent type 2 is controlled effortful usually conscious tends to be logically coherent rule governed and this is why your brain slowed down reading the second two sentences the parts of your brain responsible for type 2 thinking were doing their thing slowly and rationally and then the parts of your brain responsible for type 1 thinking got to an associative answer faster and blurted it out so to speak then after that interruption your type 1 thinking resumed and got to the correct answer now that s not to say you shouldn t trust your type 1 thinking in fact that s the point the first article makes when it comes to making a decision based on very complex information your intuitive type 1 thinking can often do a better job than your rational type 2 thinking r esearchers have demonstrated that the emotional system aka type 1 thinking might excel at complex decisions or those involving lots of variables if true this would suggest that the unconscious is better suited for difficult cognitive tasks than the conscious brain that the very thought process we ve long disregarded as irrational and impulsive might actually be smarter than reasoned deliberation this is largely because the unconscious is able to handle a surfeit of information digesting the facts without getting overwhelmed human reason in contrast has a very strict bottleneck and can only process about four bits of data at any given moment when confused in the toothpaste aisle bewildered by all the different options we should go with the product that feels the best the article describes an experiment that showed this the researcher gave a group of subjects information about a set of 4 cars each car was rated according to 4 criteria for a total of 16 pieces of information the subjects who were given a chance to think rationally about the information chose the best car about 50 of the time and those who were distracted with an alternate task then prompted to make a snap judgement about the cars faired worse but that was the easy decision the researcher then repeated the test with a different group of subjects but he instead gave them 12 pieces of information about each car for a total of 48 peices of information the subjects who were give a chance to think rationally about the information in this case did very poorly they chose the best car less than 25 of the time i e they performed worse than random chance the subjects who were distracted then asked to make a snap decision however chose the best car 60 of the time when faced with too much information your rational mind becomes overwhelmed but the intuitive mind your gut instinct performs better interestingly a group of researchers who reproduced these results found you could also undo your correct gut instinct choice if you tried to think rationally about the decision later your type 2 thinking would get muddled by the complexity and cancel out the sureness you had felt when your type 1 thinking produced the correct result remember when you were in school and took a multiple choice test didn t it always seem like if you changed an answer it always turned out later that the first one had been correct that may have been because your intuitive mind provided an answer your conscious rational mind couldn t figure out but then your conscious mind second guessed that insight i find it fascinating and beautiful that science can actually address things that seem so magical as flashes of intuition and gut instinct pretty nifty stuff and i hope it will help me listen to my instincts better when i m feeling confused by complexity ooh and just to tie it all back to writing in this show don t tell blog post i noted that you can trust the reader s brain to fill in details provided you give it enough to base its predictions on now i can back that up with science what is happening is that if you give the reader s brain enough information to trigger their type 1 or intuitive thinking they will come up with a more complete picture than would be possible if they were assembling their understanding based only on the information you provide the principle of show don t tell is about triggering the intuitive mind posted by jjdebenedictis at 9 25 2011 10 22 00 p m friday september 23 2011 from the query goblin hard nox by anonymous an anonymous author has graciously allowed the goblin to massage the query for hard nox a ya paranormal please pop by and see say what you think query 36 hard nox by anonymous posted by jjdebenedictis at 9 23 2011 04 31 00 p m labels query_goblin sunday september 18 2011 callous seducer of good books i m currently more than half way through two great novels right now which is odd because i m usually monogamous about reading you see i was going out of town for the weekend to be fed to the point of rupture by my absolutely lovely mother in law and i had neither enough of the first book left to guarantee not running out of reading material nor enough space in my luggage to take two books with me thus that first book a solid and dependably enjoyable sweetheart of seven hundred pages whom i have been commited to for over a week now is unaware of the flashy hussy i picked up at the library and had a weekend fling with and that hussy well let s just say you can tell that novel has been read a lot still i know my first book will take me back and everything will be just as good as it once was although i can t foresee being with the poor dear for much longer and my relationship with the hussy will also soon run its course i mean you don t exactly settle down with a fast little number like that always more books in the stacks my friends always more books in the stacks thank goodness for twitter buddies my friend dale mcgladdery caught something i might well have missed while i was away my flash fiction piece wetware woes finally came up on escape pod this is a piece that started life as a winning entry for one of janet reid s contests it s great to see it finally out and both weird and edifying to hear someone read what i wrote editor mur lafferty did a great job but i m not so in love with some of my odd ball sentence constructions now i tell ya posted by jjdebenedictis at 9 18 2011 08 31 00 p m from the query goblin the privileged by anonymous an anonymous writer has graciously allowed the goblin to massage the query for the privileged please pop by and see say what you think query 35 the privileged by anonymous posted by jjdebenedictis at 9 18 2011 07 46 00 p m labels query_goblin older posts home subscribe to posts atom pageloads since 01 01 2009 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