Who is going to oversee roughly 1.6 trillion in student loan debt for 40+ milllion people? Seems like an important question to ask when discussing how they’ll dismantle the Dept of Education.

Thank you! The Expanse tv series (not the novels, though they're fantastic) gave me permission to at least try. The OPA breaching pod slapped together out of a FedEx shipping container was not only apt but also meaningful.

Guilty as charged. In my defense, I tend to use mashups in sci-fi, e.g., Lockheed-Raytheon or Lionsgate Universal.

You’ve very welcome. I hope you give this series another go someday. Would love to read another novel in this series!

Lacked catharsis. Meh.

Hit 90k on the new WIP, heading into act three tonight 😉

Access to an excerpt. I appreciate being able to nose around the narrative a little.

Good to be here with ya. ✊ Hope you got that comparison bit all sorted.

Think of it this way: if there’s an explanation, you’re in analogy country, but if one thing simply equates to another, then that’s metaphor. There’s a fine rhetorical line between them. That said, if you’re leaning on “similarity,” that sounds to me like comparison.

Comparison becomes analogy when one thing stands in for another, as far as I understand the distinction between them. Analogy is like reasoning in parallel. A metaphor doesn’t explain that way. It equates. I guess it depends on how you treat the two, corp greed vis-a-vis childish tantrum?

I do too! Though, have these folks read any Tchaikovsky lately? What an imaginative weirdo and I love him.

I’m using Google Maps for my current WIP.

I'm enjoying Who Will You Save quite a lot at the moment. Spent a few hours this afternoon reading, in fact. Is Ann Szkatula a character from a novel I've missed? Those stories had me hooked like a fish.

I find this happens when reading Brits (I’m US) who’ll slip in a word I’m unaccustomed to reading—like “lamp” as a verb. Just pops from the page.

The entire series is breathtaking.

Most certainly. At least, though, I picked the exam question to answer for each. 🙂

Love me some breakfast tacos. Do you season the eggs? I usually whip in a pinch or two of chili powder.