Sunday, September 04, 2011

Risk Takers In Fiction And Life

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Risk-taking is in our DNA. It is valued in times of crisis (war, exploration) but not so much in local emergencies when the authorities fl...
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

Creating Sympathetic Protagonists

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The latest issue of RWR (the membership magazine for Romance Writers of America) includes an article called "The Unsympathetic Protag...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Astrology Just For Writers, Part 10, Pluto The School Of Hard Knocks

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Last week we talked about expository lumps, and how a writer's job is to chop them up into small pieces, to make salad out of grocery ba...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Roots of Spec-Fic Genres

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The Summer 2011 issue of WEIRD TALES includes an essay on Weird Cinema, titled "Through the Lens Darkly." A large percentage of ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Source of the Expository Lump Part 2

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 Last week we discussed two urban fantasy PNR writers, Amber Benson and Kathryn Leigh Scott, both from the acting profession, and both posse...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Importance Of Being.... Allergic?

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I'm on vacation, so will have to rely on memory (which may or may not be fuzzy). On my Facebook page today, I've had a wide rangi...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Writing Addiction

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I've just finished the draft and revision of a new paranormal erotic romance novella. Soon I'll send it to one of my regular publi...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Amber Benson and Kathryn Leigh Scott Actresses and Writers

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You may remember I discussed Amber Benson's first Calliope Reaper-Jones novel, Death's Daughter in August 2009. http://aliendjin...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Robot Companions

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Speaking of cyborgs, the August NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC contains an article on robots, with pictures: Robots The article explores robot...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Big Love Sci-Fi Part VIII Unconditional Love and Science Fiction - c

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This is the third part, part c,  of "Unconditional Love and Science Fiction" which is part of the Big Love Sci-Fi series of posts ...
Thursday, August 04, 2011

Cyborg Love?

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A few nights ago I had a dream about carrying on a long conversation with Darth Vader. In the dream he'd had his life support suit remov...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Big Love Sci-Fi Part VII Unconditional Love and Science Fiction - b

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This is Part b of a discussion of the nature of Love, continued from July 26th post. This is Part VII in Big Love Sci-Fi. So here we are...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Alien Past

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"The past is a foreign country" (from a 1953 novel, THE GO-BETWEEN, by British author L. P. Hartley). Recently I felt struck by th...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Big Love Sci-Fi Part VI: Unconditional Love and Science Fiction - a

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Last week we looked at Love and Romance, using thumbnail definitions from Astrology for Venus and Neptune. Here's a list of previous p...
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