A Writer’s Lament
Writing has been so much a part of my life that I’m really quite annoyed that I can’t do as much as I used to. ~ Anne McCaffrey
Read More A Writer’s LamentWriting has been so much a part of my life that I’m really quite annoyed that I can’t do as much as I used to. ~ Anne McCaffrey
Read More A Writer’s LamentIt is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Read More Putting Things in PerspectiveThis weekend at the By Any Means Necessary Author Takeover I offered up a contest giveaway: And the winner is: Jeff Russell! Winning Quote: “You should learn to live as if you didn’t exist.” ~ from Once Upon a Time in the West. Other Entries: “Well, you’re a romantic bastard, I’ll give you that.” ~ […]
Read More Winner of My Contest Giveaway!And 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 SaysThat’s what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there. Anne McCaffrey
Read More What Writing is All About, After AllScience fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the […]
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