Roger Floyd's Website

Which do you use?  “Shall?”  Or “will?”  Personally, I don’t use “shall” much at all. When I was in school, and this was many years ago, I was told that […]

I had an interesting time at a writer’s conference yesterday.  I went primarily to pitch my novel (actually the trilogy of novels) to a representative of a well-known publishing house […]

For those of us who are beginning writers, one of the rules of modern-day writing (as opposed to 19th century writing, for example) that is so frequently beaten into our […]

Do you remember the PBS show “Book Beat”?  It was on in the 1970’s, as I recall.  The host of the show was Bob Cromie, who worked for a long […]

Fiction is basically an overstatement.  Or perhaps better terms would be exaggeration, or even caricature.  We writers do things in fiction that would be unlikely in real life.  Our characters […]

For several years a debate has raged in writer’s and publisher’s circles about whether there should be one or two spaces after a period between sentences.  How do you stand? I […]

I’ve read a few science-fiction books in the past several years, many of which I’ve enjoyed, and a few of which I haven’t.  One of the most common things about […]

Several months ago I read a story, probably on the Yahoo news, about a planet that doesn’t orbit any sun.  It’s just out there, moving through the darkness of outer space […]

Two terms about people in North America, one coined recently and one that’s been around for a while, have caught my eye and ear over the years and I’ve come […]

This blog post may be a little different from the ones I usually write.  Mostly I write about science or writing or the environment.  This time I want to get […]

About a month and a half ago I finished reading the Star Wars book, Kenobi, by John Jackson Miller.  This book, part of the long-running Star Wars saga, tells the story […]

Writing is a form of daydreaming.  Actually, I like to daydream.  I could spend my whole life thinking up and thinking about stories, fictional as well as non-fictional.  Of course, […]