OWW for SF, F, OWW SF & Famp; H Tips and Advice: Byrne:
“…each scene should have at least three purposes: to advance the story, reveal character, and create background/setting to underpin the first two.”
My New Favorite Site
Paleo-Future: A look into the future that never was
Discussions abound right now about various sorts of “-punks,” steam-, cyber-, clock-, punk-, but I’ve had things in mind for some time that this site is bound to help me kick out of my brain and onto paper.
EDIT: Here’s the Google group
Ray Bradbury
This Way
Plug-Ins
From Dar Kush
“So I’m starting to create lists of ‘plug-ins,’ scenes in projects that are self-contained, from 100-2500 words, that I can write in a burst of flow. In that way, I can create one ‘plug in’ every day, minimum, no matter where I am or what I’m doing.”
Risky Business
From Jay Lake:
“I don’t believe for a moment that vaccination protestors or SUV drivers are making choices with the intent of being deliberately destructive to others. I’m just noodling with the idea of how risk is transferred by these choices, rather than reduced or eliminated. Is it a social good that these risks get moved from one population to another, where the population experiencing the increased risk has no say in the matter?”
New Thing
As much as I’d like to say this was a late contribution to International Pixel-Stained Technopeasants Day, this was already a scheduled freebie. Enjoy!
“Right to Privacy” on SIX SENTENCES.
@Six Sentences
The Old Adage
Don’t worry, it didn’t come out of my wrists or anything.
New piece coming up on SIX SENTENCES in about 10 days. After that, hopefully some paying work.