Riall Nolan

I'm an anthropologist and writer of adventure thrillers. I like to put quirky characters in unusual settings, wind them up and watch what they do.

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@blacklionking73 Thank you, too, for great stories. You're one of the best.

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@blacklionking73 Nice to see you back. Or maybe it's just the way my feed is set up. Anyway, I really liked your latest. Course, I've liked all of them so far. Forward.

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@klhicks912 If you're not sure who you are, try being somebody else for a while.

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@ElementasSeries I have the same problem. If you have any effective way of sorting them out, please let me know.

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@MKovac_Writer "Chuck" goes way back, to Vietnam.

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@Author_PCorrell I'd agree, and add that it doesn't really take a lot of hard thinking to get Shakespeare, he's pretty damn direct most of the time, although in the most eloquent way possible.

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@ripley_rachael A faucet wrench.

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@CathBarton1 Depends on how big the pies are.

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@sophieisdrawin I like your stuff, even though I'm not likely to be able to ask for your help anytime soon. But I will keep this in mind. Great post, thanks. One question: where's the map of NY State come from. I love maps, and that is an unusual one.

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@RebeccaEvita Shot in the back by French and African troops while running to a small plane waiting for her on a jungle airstrip. She survived, fortunately.

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@jodyjsperling Probably both.

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@NatashaCL7 1) Bad education
2) Social media
3) The proliferation of right-wing voices
4) The deliberate creation of a climate of fear and anxiety by politicians and the media.

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@JagsArthurson No, of course you're not the only one. I assume that was a rhetorical flourish. What I find disheartening is that most of the discussion in Baku is about how much money will be paid by rich countries to poor ones in order to "incentivize" them into action.

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@Author_PCorrell It depends a lot on what exactly they used it for. If they're letting AI do the writing, then no, I wouldn't bite. If, on the other hand, they're using AI to do research, I think that's OK. Just like Google or Wikipedia, only better and faster.

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@1pcornwell Depends. If I could help because of stuff I know, and if I could be genuinely useful, then yes. I'm a social anthropologist and a writer of adventure thrillers, I know a lot about some things and very little about others. I like your stuff, by the way.

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@MariaVBooks Congratulations, what you did is difficult and stressful. Pay it forward with kindness towards other doctoral students.

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@RebeccaEvita 1) In the police station; she's arrested his best friend. 2) On the beach; she's running away from a murderer. 3) In the hospital; she visits him after an assassination attempt; 4) In the hotel restaurant; she's a bodyguard, and throws him to the floor for a wrong move.

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@Nickyshearsby22 Scenes, and then I see where the chapter breaks fall naturally. Something has to happen in every scene which moves the story forward.

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@SaratogaIsHere @crookedlanebks Congratulations. Let's hope for many more of these moments, as one novel follows another.

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@JWenner_Author Ah, my bad, sorry. Still, it would be fun to watch what the judge did, were you to try it.