Activity for NKCampbell
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #16757 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #16670 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: The "destroy a day's work every nth day" method of improving one's writing - sensible? This feels very opinion based (maybe the bulk of my time spent on scifi.se has conditioned me to cringe at opinion, not fact based responses :) - however, as a software developer, there is some precedent for this practice in what is called a "spike" - which is thought of as an experiment or proof of ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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How to deal with cryptomnesia (falsely recalling generating a thought or idea)? Paul McCartney, upon composing the melody for "Yesterday", felt certain that it was too good to be original, and that he must have heard it before and just couldn't remember it: > McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |