Back in the groove, for a moment…
I wrote 4,000 words in two days. This is as close to a miracle as I get since my writing mojo has been sorta lacking the past few weeks. It’s a silly story, the “Miss Abbas, you can’t go walking about Highfrost without underwear!” story, and now Anaria and Orin have had their [...]
The Theory of Fun: A valuable resource for science fiction writers.
There are few things more humbling than watching someone else work his way around the issues I’ve been touching on in my stories, vaguely aware that something was wrong with my approach, and having a dogged intellectual approach come out of his effort.
Eliezer Yudkowsky once expressed his admiration that I’d managed to work out the [...]
Bubble, bubble: What to do when there’s no chemistry?
Damn. So, I had what I thought was a great idea for a story, salvaged out of the back of my brain with no real thought for the characters involved. It seemed simple enough, inspired by the absolutely ridiculous PS2 game Interceptor Robot Hoi-Hoi San: what happens when an archaic sex ‘droid awakens [...]
Personal cliches
I have noticed that I have a rather odd cliche’ in my stories. I don’t think it’s a particular tic of mine, but this morning while I was trying to figure out what to do with Officer Orin and Anaria Abbas (oh, dear, that’s a terrible last name; I shall have to change it), [...]
Cut off in mid-idea.
Don’t you just hate it when you’re just really about to get the story moving, when the really important thing that finally gets the initial crisis underway has happened– and you have to stop writing because the alarm just went off and it’s time to go to the office for ${DAY_JOB}? Yeah, me too. Well, [...]