I am recycling some old posts which may be of interest to new writers struggling with writing problems… The Problem: How do you write the boring bits between the interesting bits? In other words, how do you breathe the magic … Continue reading
So what research am I doing anyway, you may ask? The book I am writing at the moment is Book 3 of The Forsaken Lands, and that is set in a world that equates with our 18th century Netherlands and … Continue reading
Very occasionally, when I say I write fantasy, the listener imagines I write sex fantasies. I won’t go there, except to say I haven’t worked out a really good reply to that one yet. Occasionally I get someone saying, … Continue reading
…is a N.Z. writer I met in September at Worldcon. This month she has Book 2 coming out in her trilogy: ” Chronicles of the Tree.” I just LOVE the setting of these books. At one stage in the far … Continue reading
Via SF writer Mike Brotherton, here’s an extract from an article by Zaid Jilani: In his new book, Speechless, Tales of a White House Survivor former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer reveals how politicized the revered Presidential Medal of Freedom became … Continue reading
Today I was wandering around the garden with a piece of glass from a photo frame trying to catch sunlight and redirect it. Trouble is, in the tropics, the darn sun disappears behind clouds for days at a time. Sheesh. … Continue reading
Over at the Locus Blog, from Gary K. Wolfe, are some interesting figures. In 1954, when I was nine years old, there were approximately 74 science fiction titles published. Locus reports 1,669 titles (including fantasy, horror, etc.) for 2008 – … Continue reading
One of my dearest friends I have ever had is an in-law. When I was one month old, born into a world at war, she was born in another country occupied by enemy armies. Who would ever have foretold that … Continue reading
‘Something written by a talented young Malaysian author, Preeta Samarasan, resonates with me.She said:“Schoolchildren studying literature in the colonies had to navigate Cockney speech patterns, imagine for themselves what toad-in-the-hole might taste like, picture moors and bogs and fens and … Continue reading
Over on Jenny Fallon’s blog the other day, she had a link to this article on villains at io9, a bit tongue in the cheek, which postulates that one of the reasons movies like The Dark Knight have done so … Continue reading
