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2012 Writing Goals
The abridged version: Write three times a week, every week except around certain vacation times until The Ageless is done Finish the first draft of The Ageless by June Let The Ageless rest Revise The Century starting in June Finish at least two drafts (?) of The Century by year’s end Find agents to submit…
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Use It or Lose It
Last week, I talked about my obsession with writing. I mentioned how I’d awakened that morning with the next scene of The Ageless already in mind but didn’t have time to write. Turns out this is the perfect example the phenomenon known as “use it or lose it.”
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The Birth of the Genre
The origin of the speculative fiction genre, which today encompasses both science fiction and fantasy, is hard to pinpoint. One reason is because the term “science fiction” was introduced long after the first works we would consider to be SF were already published. Although SF existed, it hadn’t truly been defined yet. (Some would say…