Tag: observations
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Does She Need a Valentine?
Today, Worldbinding is part of the Bloody Valentine Blog Hop. Blog hops allow various bloggers to write about similar topics and then link amongst themselves. You can hop to the other participants’ blogs at the end of this post. Will They or Won’t They? One of my biggest pet peeves in fiction — both on…
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Rape and Torture in Fiction
When you pick up a book, you know what genre it is, whether thriller, romance, science fiction, etc. You probably also know its subgenre: a techno-thriller, a paranormal romance, an alternate history. But when you begin reading, you may not be aware that the book contains graphic scenes of rape and torture. Uncomfortable Fiction Before…
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Extrapolating the Future
In college, I wrote a story called “Sweet Dreams” about a girl who meets her clone. My science fiction and fantasy writing instructor’s major critique: It didn’t seem very futuristic. Other than cloning technology, I hadn’t extrapolated how other technologies might change in the future. A lack of extrapolation isn’t always a problem, of course. In…