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Hook ‘em, So You Can Reel ‘em In
How will you begin your next story? The beginning, called the ‘hook,’ is important. These days readers don’t have much time. Other things like TV, video games, and the Internet compete with your...
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Details,Details…
When I said I’d blog about choosing details wisely in writing fiction, I meant it; I just didn’t say how soon I’d get around to it! Writers often have to describe scenes, characters, or objects in...
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12 Reasons to Change Your Name
As a writer of fiction, you might choose to be published under a name other than your real one for a variety of reasons. The use of pen names, (or nom de plumes, literary doubles, or pseudonyms, if you...
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Author Interview—N.O.A. Rawle
The fun continues today as I interview another author with a story appearing in the anthology Hides the Dark Tower. To obtain this interview, I had to travel all the way to Greece…well, virtually....
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Orwell or Wells—Can Science Save Humanity?
Will Science save humankind, or lead us to our doom? The Internet is buzzing lately with various online outlets reprinting this article by Richard Gunderman in The Conversation, about a debate between...
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Dissing the Dys-Dys
After reading Henry Farrell’s essay “Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans” in the Boston Review, I felt compelled to comment. Farrell’s essay is fascinating and well written, if somewhat unfocused. He...
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After Your Great Idea – the Difficult Part
Got a great story idea, have you? All that’s left is to type up the words, send them to a publisher, and start spending all that advance money, right? Not so fast. First, I suggest you read this...
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Can You Skip the Suffering Part?
Many great writers suffered early in life and during their writing careers. Of these, a good number wrote from a place of suffering, capturing that pain and creating timeless novels. Did their...
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