Tag: writing
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Genres Bending, Blending, and Mixing
In the speculative fiction genre, a perpetual battle wages between science fiction and fantasy. Just Google “difference between science fiction and fantasy” and you’ll find 100 different answers. Even the ancient Greeks struggled with defining genre, and they essentially invented it! The Speculative Fiction Spectrum I’ve been mulling over how my novels fit into the…
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2013 Writing Goals
I’ve been a steady writer for over a year now, and I’m a little over halfway done with writing my futuristic science fiction novel, The Century. See my goals for 2013 and my thoughts about my progress so far after the jump. 2013 Goals Write four times a week (on track) Except around certain holidays and…
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Where the Outline Fears to Tread
Last night I’d written a measly 90 words of a scene when I was rocked by an epiphany. One thing I’ve struggled with since I undertook rewriting The Century is not having a firm outline. Writing The Century When I originally wrote The Century, it was about 60,000 words, but that was only Book 1.…