World-building is a key task for any writer of speculative fiction. The writer of realistic fiction has a world ready-made (the…
I’ve taken a long holiday from blogging while I labored over draft 3 of my science fiction novel, Cast into…
"Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle."
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of…
Today I’m going to review the free Kindle sample of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. Why review just the sample,…
A couple of months ago, I took a pause from writing my own Catholic science fiction novel, Cast Into the…
I wrote a few months ago about how my protagonist doesn’t fit most of the stereotypes for science fiction heroines….
Taking a break from writing and editing my sci-fi novel, I discovered the wonderful Pulp-o-mizer over on the Thrilling Tales…
I got about halfway through the extended outline of my novel — which is not really an outline so much…
I see it’s been a while since I posted anything on this blog, but that’s because I’ve been busy working…
The sci-fi novel I am working on takes place several centuries in the future, at a time when people have…