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Keep The Action Going
Read more: Keep The Action GoingLately I’ve been watching reruns of the TV crime drama “Major Crimes.” I like the action as the detectives of the Major Crimes unit solve the case. The show is […]
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High School–A New Perspective
Read more: High School–A New PerspectiveI’m not by any means a school administrator or teacher or school superintendent or member of a school board, though I do have a high school diploma and college and […]
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Mental Telepathy In Science Fiction
Read more: Mental Telepathy In Science FictionI’m currently working on a story of about 23,000 words (that makes it a “novella” or “novelette,” depending on your definition) that has to do with humans from Earth who […]
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The Pikes Peak Writers Conference–2019
Read more: The Pikes Peak Writers Conference–2019The Pikes Peak Writers Conference for 2019, held yearly in Colorado Springs, was last weekend, May 3-5, 2019. Here’s a few impressions and takeaways I gleaned from the conference. Not […]
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Space Opera: A Definition
Read more: Space Opera: A DefinitionI have had, over the past 20 years or so that I’ve been trying to write science fiction, and on one or two occasions, to answer the question, “What is […]
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TNR vs. Courier; Pica vs. Elite
Read more: TNR vs. Courier; Pica vs. EliteDo you remember “pica” and/or “elite” type on typewriters? Way back when we didn’t have personal computers, and everything we wrote was either by hand or on a typewriter, we […]
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“House Made of Dawn”: Review and Commentary
Read more: “House Made of Dawn”: Review and CommentaryI’ve just completed reading N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn. (It was awarded the prize in 1969.) A beautifully written book, it is what I would […]
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The Hardest Part About Writing
Read more: The Hardest Part About WritingThis particular post is directed largely to my writing friends, though many of you who are not writers—that is, writers in a more or less full-time sense—might get a similar take-away […]
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Stakes and Motivation
Read more: Stakes and MotivationA couple of weeks ago I sent the first 50 pages of the manuscript of my first science-fiction novel to a professional editor for evaluation. It had been read by a number […]
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The Prime Directive
Read more: The Prime DirectiveIf you are a fan of the television and movie Star Trek series, and dating from the earliest series of programs which are usually called “Star Trek, The Original Series,” then you […]
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Challenged
Read more: ChallengedA few weeks ago I was standing in line at a local restaurant, and in front of me were several women from a home for the mentally ill. I presume they’ve […]
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Beauty In Outer Space
Read more: Beauty In Outer SpaceOne of my three science fiction novels is about a group of explorers who land on a distant planet in an attempt to see if it could be colonized by people […]