The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the I Just Have to Read More of That Author Reading Challenge, the Military Spec-Fic Reading Challenge, the Giants of Genre: A Long Book Challenge, the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge, and the Space Opera Reading Challenge at Worlds Without […]
Read More Book Review: The Shadow of Saganami by David WeberAnd Canada too, I think. Or maybe it rubs off on us. Seems particularly poignant at this moment in history.
Read More The Cult of IgnoranceThe artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Ursula K. Le Guin
Read More What the Novelist SaysMany of my friends have told me that they want to write a book, and they have asked me how to do it. Well, this is how. Really, that’s it.
Read More How to ACTUALLY Get That Book Written in the New YearRocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters by O. Richard Norton My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is an excellent guide for the amateur meteorite hunter; where they come from, where to find them, how to recognize them when you see them, and how the science and geology work. It details the major […]
Read More Book Review: Rocks from Space by O. Richard NortonOriginally posted on Notes From The Slush Pile:
Lets talk bad guys. Most stories have one. Well crafted or otherwise, speculative fiction is full of them. Not that any one actual character is essential as the obstacle the protagonist has to overcome. Sometimes its simply the environment they’re in, other times its a whole alien…
One of my alpha readers sent me this link about writing action scenes (which I suppose indicates she didn’t like my action scene). But I took it under advisement and the advice is good, so I thought I would share! The best writers know how to create action scenes that cause readers to fly through […]
Read More 7 Tension Building Tips for Writing Action ScenesToo Wyrd is is a fabulous romp that is at times funny, exciting, and even a little scary, that comes across something like Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files meets American Gods. Source: Book Review: Too Wyrd by Sarah Buhrman
Read More Book Review: Too Wyrd by Sarah BuhrmanIt wasn’t that bad, really. Some of us from the local NaNoWriMo group decided to continue to meet after November, and what we really wanted was a serious critique of our work. We all have friends and family who are the victims of the snippets we continue to inflict upon them, who are kind enough […]
Read More Putting My Head on the Chopping BlockOriginally posted on Notes From The Slush Pile:
So you’ve got a great idea for your speculative fiction story. You’ve envisioned a fantastic future or a mythical realm, and presumably given some thoughts to it’s inhabitants and the problem they’ll need to solve in order to drive the plot forward. Good start. Now, what character’s…
