Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing. He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he …
Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. What the writer is doing, he’s writing, perpetrating hooptedoodle, perhaps taking another shot at the weather, or has gone into the character’s head, and the reader either knows what the guy’s thinking or doesn’t …
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Every good guy thinks of themselves as the good guy. This is a given. They are doing the work of the gods, what they do is important. The cool thing is, even the bad guys see themselves as the heros of their own personal story. Mao, Hitler, Stalin, all thought of themselves as the hero, …
The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. Malarial swamps can become healthy “wetlands.” Fetid “dumps” are often rebranded as green “landfills.” Global warming was once a worry about too much heat. It implied that man-made carbon emissions had so warmed the planet that life as we knew it …
Where do I get my ideas – Ray Bradbury The Journal Of Science-Fiction Fall 1951 Now that five long years of work on The Martian Chronicles are over and done, it is interesting, to me at least, to look back and see where the sources of my inspiration and material lay. It is startling to …
Making a writing routine that works every time. My procrastination knows no bounds, and it was whilst I was researching something unnecessary for a book I was writing I came across the idea of ‘activation energy’. Activation energy is the least possible amount of energy which is required to start a reaction. And it got …