Fasciola minuta: a fictitious species within a real-life genus

This is a note to the future. I am writing this on January 9, 2019.

I am writing this to people who are googling the term “Fasciola minuta.” There is no reason for anyone to do so today. However, conceivably, people of the future may do so, after the publication of my current fictional work-in-progress, tentatively entitled “Children of the Umber Soil.”

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The writing of the single-celled organism story

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The whole purpose of this blog is to bring people with me on a journey as I write a short story collection called Animal Stories—a collection in which the first story will be narrated by a single-celled organism, and the last story narrated by a human being.

I began the collection way back in 1995, but drifted away from it around 1999, and then resumed work on it again until earlier this year. And when I resumed that work, I did so by writing the first story for the collection. That’s right, this year I wrote a short story narrated by a single-celled organism.

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When the 80/20 rule argues for perfectionism

This post is about the 80/20 rule, and how it sometimes stands for the opposite of what most people think, how it tells when and why it’s important to be a perfectionist.

I assert that the 80/20 rule argues for perfectionism in my case, as I write a fictional short story about single-celled organisms. What? Yep, that’s what I’m working on.

I also assert the 80/20 rule argues the same for most works of art.

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