SIX OF THE BEST… things about writing by hand
I've written over 20,000 words of fiction in the past two weeks. I hadn't written that much fiction in the past six months. What's my secret? I'm doing it by hand. Here are six of [...]
SIX OF THE WORST… ways you can ruin an otherwise-good idea for a genre fiction story
In celebration (or something) of NaNoWriMo, I've written a series of columns full of writing advice and tips. This is one of them. It's NaNoWriMo time, when thousands of people try to bang out a [...]
Escape from escapism doesn’t lead to reality…
Films and TV shows aren't real. Well, except documentaries and the news. Sports shown on TV are kind of real too, assuming they haven't been rigged. Reality shows... well, they're sort of real, or at [...]
Daleks vs. Cybermen
Who would Cthulhu be more concerned about losing his world domination to, Daleks or Cybermen? Cthulhu does not worry about such science fiction. He would worry about The Silence - IF he worried at all. [...]