Experimenting on Humans
that’s really what I’m doing, when I write a story. They are only thought experiments, and my characters aren’t exactly human either, so I’m not doing a great deal of harm. The worst I am doing is boring the people who have to read what I write – my other experimental subjects At the [...]
What exactly counts as publication?
My goal for this year, next year, actually my ultimate goal of all goals, is to get published. I’ve been submitting stories for the past couple of years, and I’m working on a novel, so it seems fairly obvious what I’m aiming for. Image via Wikipedia Except over the past few years there have been [...]
Beating bloggers block
I should imagine bloggers block is somewhat like writers block. Being a blogger rather than a writer I can’t be sure 100% With writers block your fans wait, for your newspaper, magazine or book. The editor may schedule in someone else and you may lose you column that month but it could get scheduled the [...]
Avoiding Bad Sex
Write what you know, is the rule. And as Margaret Atwood says, “It’s the blood in the cookie that makes the gingerbread person come alive.” In both of the novels I am writing, there are unavoidable sex scenes, places where a closed door or a line of asterisks simply won’t do the job. Reading the [...]
