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It's OK. Deities happen to the best of us. There you are, standing by the corner of your desk, minding your own business, when ZOT! a character gets religion. Oh dear. How awkward. Now what? For a while, science fiction in particular was supposed to be faith-free. Oh, the character might use a deity name... Continue Reading →
This morning, I went trolling the internet looking for inspiration for today's post. I could write again about going wide but I'd like to hold off on that while I collect some data. (Although I will add a note near the bottom of today's post about my impressions two weeks after starting the process of... Continue Reading →
Novels can be described as milieu, idea, character, or event novels. What is driving the story? One of those four, with a blend of the others. Most novels are not 90% one and 10% the rest, but varying blends of all of them. Today I want to look at milieu novels, and see how they... Continue Reading →
One of the biggest challenges we face as writers is getting what we see in our heads onto the written page. We live with our characters and settings for so long as we plot and plan and then get down to the actual writing. Our characters are alive to us and we see the world... Continue Reading →
If you're anything like me, setting isn't something you, the extreme pantser, thinks about. It's just there. The problem with this is that without learning how to Heinlein the key setting information, there's a tendency to either stop everything for a big fat infodumpus, or to wind up with talking head syndrome, where there's simply... Continue Reading →
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