I was talking with a friend of mine recently about self-publishing options. He’s wanting to put a project management ebook together. The subject seemed to be a nice topic others could benefit from, so I wrote up the gathered information in the post below.
Worldbuilding is a key component to fiction writing, but to what extent you construct your fictional world can vary greatly. Some stories are set in exotic fantasy locales with thousands of years of history, fully mapped geography, and unique languages. Others are relatively contemporary settings with just a few “changes” to explain to readers. All more »
Earlier this week Brayden Hirsch posted a nice article titled What Makes a Bad Guy Bad that got me thinking again about the villain’s role in a story. I come back to this topic now and then as I think the best of heroes are defined by their villains, but I don’t feel the inverse more »
The second part of this series on science fiction technology is about energy fields. Manipulated energy in one form or another has been a catch-all plot device in scifi for decades. It especially serves as stand-in solution whenever a more solid explanation of the action is unavailable. Science continues to advance with science fiction in more »
As a follow-up to my earlier post last month, Scifi for Summer Reading, here are three more great titles to consider as the warm season continues: Robert J. Sawyer’s WWW: Wake tells the contemporary story of teenager Caitlin, born blind but possessing a keen intellect. After receiving an experimental implant she gains the ability to more »
