The Crowhill Journal

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That they have to is obvious. But do they have the brains to figure out how to do it, or the guts to try? I’m not sure.

To me, it’s very simple. They need to learn to fight. If they don’t fight, there will continue to be a large portion of the country that will stick with Trump.

Republicans won’t put up with another Bush or McCain or Romney. They want somebody who will punch back against the left, and try to get things done.

Unless and until the GOP learns to fight, and promotes a candidate to lead them in that fight, Trump will remain the default leader.

I just saw a story about a second Olympic judo competitor who has been sent home for refusing to spar with an Israeli, “apparently for political reasons” — i.e., over the Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

I thought the whole point of the Olympics was to get nations to come together on neutral ground, irrespective of political differences.

If every Olympian had to make some sort of moral judgment about competing against representatives of Nation X, where they do [fill in horrible thing], there would be very few competitors.

My sister is reading the latest iteration of my latest novel, and she asked if I had considered Kindle Vella, which is a new service for serialized works.

Kindle Vella is Amazon’s serialized fiction platform where authors will write stories split into episodes that are released one by one. Readers will have to purchase each episode except for the first few episodes. The first three episodes will be made available for free by Amazon. Readers can read the free content to decide whether they like the story and want to continue or not.

If the readers wish to continue the story and read further, they can purchase the next episode and start reading right from the same screen. (From Everything You Need to Know about Kindle Vella

I had considered it, but it requires a type of writing I’m not used to. Each component would have to enough to satisfy and also compel the reader to keep going.

Which isn’t a bad idea. So I made this list of what I believe each section would need.

• A theme and an arc within the overall arc of the book
• Something progressively scarier (building the tension)
• Something revealed / satisfying
• A hook to make you want to read on

Can you think of anything else?

I might give this a try. It’s not as if my normal strategy has landed me on the best-seller list, so a new approach seems reasonable.

A new study finds that children with autism have a different gut biome than children who don’t.

New Research Finds Children With Autism Have a Distinctive Gut Microbiome

The idea that bacteria in our lower tract influence us in such profound ways is very strange, but also very encouraging. If raises the possibility of relatively simple treatments.

I don’t know if this finding will hold up, but if it does, it might make sense of a question we’ve all asked over the years: why does there seem to be more autism nowadays?

It’s a dead certainty that modern life influences the bacteria in our gut. If that, in turn, affects autism …. Wow. What else?

I want someone to compare the microbiome of woke vs sane people. Maybe we can cure our country by requiring everyone to eat yogurt.