There are three primary types of writers and they reflect three sets of skills that they must all master. The first kind of writer is one who has mastered description. These are the authors who can describe a scene so thoroughly and so completely t…
Eugene Fitch Ware and Science Fiction Poetry of the 1880’s Eugene F. Ware was a pioneer, a soldier, lawyer and Poet. He was a captain of Iowa troops in the Civil War. He settled in Kansas in 1866, homesteading a farm which his children …
Like a ton of writers, which could be from 6-20 if one wants to be pedantic about it and it seems I chose to be, I struggle with sitting my fundament on a chair and making words appear. I don’t consider myself lazy, for I lead a fairly active …
A lot of science fiction stories are based upon questions that begin with “What if...?” That is the reason why the acronym SF is often used to stand for Speculative Fiction. Perhaps more than any other genre, Science Fiction has always…
Chatbots like CHAT-GPT have the potential to change the way writing is done, making it easier and faster for people to create written content. However, the rise of these technologies also brings with it the risk of exacerbating the decline of tradit…
How to read a book a day As I write, I sit in a den surrounded by 15,000 books, that's about a book a day, every day, for thirty years. My reading habits developed early in high school and, by college, I have developed a voracious appetite for read…
Ask any author why they write and you may hear a joke about how God only knows or how they must be mad, that’s the only explanation. This is especially common with authors who are as yet unpublished but just can’t seem to give up the dre…
When the noted science fiction author, Theodore Sturgeon, once appeared as the guest of honor at a Science Fiction Convention, he made a comment that has become classic. It has since become part of the Murphy’s Laws corollaries and is a …
How to Effectively Take Criticism About Your Writing Without Turning Around and Making the Idiot Who Dared Savage Your Precious Prose the Murder Victim of a Rabid Two-Faced Alien with Mommy Issues in Your Great American Science Fiction Trilogy &nbs…
I have a friend. No, really, I do. To protect the innocent, I’ll say his name is Don Muchow. You might recognize the name, but I assure you, it is almost coincidental. Okay, somewhat almost…ish. …
