Be ready to write Creativity is such a personal experience. No matter who we are, we search for it. A kid wants to say something funny to his buddies, a man needs a good line to catch the woman’s attention, a painter dreams of that perfect aesthetic impression on canvas, the computer programmer must revise…
mixing it up in SF genres One of the really difficult things I have found about writing SF is that there are so many subgenres. I have been doing research so I can be certain which one(s) I fall into. After reviewing the various sites that explain SF subgenres, I sat down to list the…
Not just plants are regional: words, too. I moved all over the place when I was a kid, and I collected words and differences in pronunciation of words like most kids collected bubble gum trading cards. Milkshake, cabinet, frappe Even though these words reference the same thing, each brings a different feel to the image….
Readers need to connect the content to their own lives. Recently I was reading Jane Eyre. The narrator and main character Jane was describing a view of Rochester seated alone in a darkened room, and suddenly I was transported back about ten years and the memory of walking into my father’s office to see him…
My previous post on William H. Patterson, Jr.’s, Heinlein biography focused on what I learned about the writing business. But that wasn’t all I gained from the reading. In many ways, Heinlein’s life provided general rules to live by as a writer and a person. Take care of your mortality: physical health, mental health, diet…
I have been a fan of Heinlein’s for more than forty years. When he was alive, I watched constantly for his next publication, and I have read nearly everything he has written and a great deal of what has been written about his work. Learning only recently that there was an official biography about him…
foundations for a writing office I’ve been tweeting about the lovely little getaway house my husband and I have been building for the last three months. I am pleased it’s coming along, but what I really care about and am excited about is my office. Sure the house is going to have bedrooms, a living…
The writer says E.M. Wynter has invited me to take part in another blog hop. We met on Twitter when our voids collided one day. I have invited my Twitter/Google+/Facebook friends L.A. Hilden and Madeleine Masterson to join us. E.M. has supplied us with another set of questions. They were a bit tougher to answer…
