Sunday, October 30, 2011

Mating Net read aloud

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Suzette Haden Elgin

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Linguist and SF writer Suzette Haden Elgin, author of the "Native Tongue" and "Planet Ozark" novels and numerous nonfict...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Believing in Happily Ever After Part 4: Nesting Huge Themes Inside Each Other

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Last week we looked at two conflict sets that form the basis for huge thematic statements that can be simplified down to something as stark ...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

My battle with Big Pizza

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Also with EBay; Google AdWords Express; Virgin/Samsung; Ford; Papa John's Pizza, from whom I had an extraordinary response to a "re...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Cyborgs Revisited

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Recently I watched JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, a horrifying, nearly hopeless movie about a maimed World War I veteran, based (mostly faithfully) on ...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Believing in Happily Ever After Part 3: Standardization vs. Customization

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Part 1 of this "Believing in Happily Ever After" series is: http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2011/10/believing-in-happily...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

#BAD11 -- Food in Alien Romances

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Does anyone else find it ironic that the requested hashtags for today are #BAD11 and  #FOOD ? Let me start with a disclaimer. I intended...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Steve Jobs

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The death of the founder of Apple came as a mild shock to me, not because I felt any special attachment to him or his products, but mainly b...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Believing in Happily Ever After Part 2: The Power of Theme-Plot Integration

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Now we launch into some very advanced writing lessons aimed specifically at Science Fiction Romance writers and Paranormal Romance writers. ...
Sunday, October 09, 2011

The Giver: The Dark Side of Political Correctness

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The ultimate in Fairness is "Sameness" according to Lois Lowry's science fiction novel "The Giver" (1993). What is m...
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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Disney Princesses

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Last week I watched two video sequels to Disney’s classic CINDERELLA movie. Some random thoughts about Disney cartoon heroines, to which I g...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Believing in Happily Ever After: Part 1, Stephen King on Potter VS Twilight

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 In July, I was invited to Google+ by one of the Chat moderators on Twitter who runs #Litchat (which I recommend to readers and writers -- f...
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Sunday, October 02, 2011

Haven't Had Sex in 80 Million Years (and other Non-Fiction Book Reviews for Fiction Inspiration)

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I doubt that one could write a block-buster alien romance about someone or something that hadn't had sex in 80 million years. But, wai...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Time Travel Intervention

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Now that I’ve seen the pilot of TERRA NOVA, a couple of my doubts have been addressed. Its premise seems to make more sense than I originall...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Twitter Chat On Isaac Asimov

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On July 8th, 2011, @DavidRozansky the publisher at Flying Pen Press I've mentioned many times here, supplied the #scifichat topic of a t...
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