One of the worst things that writers do is when they TELL a reader instead of SHOWING them. In particular, I hate it when an author tells me how a character ‘feels’. They’re happy, or sad, or tired, or angry. By doing so, the au…

Ponder Sisyphus. Doomed to push a massive boulder up a steep hill, only to have it roll down again. Every time. Every. Time. What’s that got to do with creativity? First: Creativity is hard work. It may seem easy, and we may pretend it …

With the recent advent of AI regenerative systems, many people have become frightened that advances in AI will result in chaos at many levels. Some fear that it will become impossible to tell the difference between AI-generated information (text or …

            Jason is a bright young man who can draw brilliantly. He has an intuitive grasp of perspective and framing that lends itself well to graphic novel projects, though he has so far focu…

SELLING YOUR BOOK – Part 2 In an earlier article, SELLING YOUR BOOK – Part 1, we talked about how to market your book. But not everyone in your target audience is going to feel like buying. For some people, it won't be the right time, o…

Selling Your Book So you’ve finished writing your science fiction novel and now you’re ready to release it to the world. The good news is that for the most part, it’s an end to long hours spent checking for problems with grammar, …

I tend to write what is known as “hard SF”, that is, science fiction that is technically accurate, or as accurate as I can make it while taking a wink at things like Time Travel and Faster Than Light travel. With a few exceptions like t…

            I am assuming you are a writer, or want to be. If you have yet to launch yourself into the darkness called writing, and have been putting it off for whatever reason(s) your mind can …

I was asked to pick my top ten favorite Science Fiction Movies of all time. I tried. But I couldn't. I kept thinking of others that needed to be on the list. When I reached 25 is decided that I needed to group them by category, but the categories re…

            If you’ve been known as a writer among more than two persons for at least 19 minutes, you have been asked: “Where do you get your ideas?” Or you may have been asked the passive-aggressive &…