Like many other authors out there I’m taking part in NaNoWriMo again this year. In other words, don’t expect much from me this month. When I’m not in a caffeine induced craze of keyboard abuse I’m either sleeping (less than usual), working (less than usual), and/or (usually and) thinking about my novel. This year I …
I have a tendency to write parables. It’s likely the influence of all the old-time Golden Age sci-fi I read, but when I start a new story it seems that I’m thinking in terms of idea and consequences. “Wouldn’t that thing be cool to have? What would be the consequences of that technology?” Simple tales about …
Have you ever started thinking about a fantastic thing/superpower/event, and then thought, “I wish I could have that as my one wish from a genie?” Of course, when I think this, my mind immediately goes to all the ways said genie would distort the way I asked, inevitably turning the wish into something else, and likely into something that …