Posts under ‘Writing’

Life has been so nuts that I haven’t even told y’all: my very short story “My Summer Romance” was accepted for the zombie erotica anthology Rigor Amortis, to be published by Absolute XPress.
This anthology went from random twitter conversation to table of contents in two months, publisher and all, due to the insanity hard work [...]

Like so many, I’ve been playing with the Write Like site. Like so many, I’ve gotten interestingly odd results:

stringpage blog (informal nonfiction): James Joyce
Knack (fiction): David Foster Wallace

Clarkesworld (more formal nonfiction): Arthur C Clarke

I suspect the author pool is rather small.
But that’s the little thing. The big thing: I got into Viable Paradise!
I’ve been in [...]

An insightful perspective on writing science fiction from David Brin:

They obviously didn’t show up here, but the words had to have gone somewhere, right?
Right.
Some of them went to the Crossed Genres July issue, my first short story sale.
More showed up in the Clarkesworld July issue. This one’s a non-fiction piece about controlled ecologies for space travel.
I like writing about science for science fiction [...]

I haven’t been writing much for the blog because I’ve been writing for other projects:

A Crossed Genres Science in My Fiction article about satellite images I neglected to tell you about when it came out (I was out of town - sorry!).

My application for Viable Paradise. I made the wait list last year, and am [...]

“The American academic scientist earns less than an airplane mechanic, has less job security than a drummer in a boy band, and works longer hours than a Bolivian silver miner,” notes Philip Greenspun, a humorist, pilot, prolific blogger, a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science, and a software engineering teacher at the Massachusetts Institute [...]

Dr. Peter Watts, author and marine biologist, will not be going to jail. He is however a convicted felon now and will not be allowed to return to the United States from his home in Canada.
I’ve mentioned this before, if you need a refresher.
I’m relieved that Dr. Watts received a suspended sentence, and [...]

If it’s Thursday this must be… some hotel room.
Last week was talking about science in Georgia, at my favorite annual science conference.
This week is training sessions for field sampling. Once in a great while I get lucky and get to send a national crew out to do my work for me. Sort of: it isn’t [...]

There’s a new blog in town, Science in My Fiction, devoted to getting science fiction and fantasy writers thinking about new developments in science. It’s been running for about a month, and there are some thought-provoking articles already.
My first contribution, on learning science, appeared today.
Please go take a look, and leave a comment on [...]

About a month ago I asked for advice on learning more about literary criticism, especially as pertains to science fiction. I promised I’d summarize the results.
Jess left a very good comment, discussing different forms of criticism and a few resources. She also pointed out the essay collection Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft [...]