Writer's Block: Opposites attract (sometimes)

...99% of the time. The ideal girl: I want someone who can carry on the kind of conversations I enjoy. She should know about theology, philosophy, science, science fiction, and preferably video games. Glasses are a big plus. Knowing the distance to Sirius and our sun's spectral type are huge pluses. (Nifty things in ...

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Drive By Posting

... Brenda Cooper's book, WINGS OF CREATION is out today! Congratulations, Brenda! Brenda is a talented writer, a class act, and a gracious, thoughtful member of the science fiction and writing community. If you haven't tried her YA science fiction, go! Get thee to a bookstore and pick it today! You can win a copy ...

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Guest Feature: John Scalzi

John Scalzi John Scalzi is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at... number of topics since 1998. He has also written a number of non-fiction books. Scalzi's first published novel was Old Man's War, in which...

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James Cameron on Avatar and the Quest for Perfect CGI Boobs (no, seriously)

...used to throw my comics and science-fiction books in the trash because... I was president of the science club, which consisted of me, ...to reconcile those two directions except science fiction. Two of my closest ... because George Lucas suddenly made science fiction gold instead of a .... That’s where I met writer-producer Gale Hurd, and the ... question to rest.” As co-writer and director of two Terminator ...

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Resistance is Futile (take two after LJ at the first one)

...How does your process differ when writing fiction as opposed to non-...of the novel/story. With non-fiction, I try to work from ... a centuries-old idea that Science and Religion were mortal enemies.... faith is that it and science have never contradicted each other ... know, both in Religion and Science. Because of that, we Saints ...'s more important as a writer: talent or persistence? Persistence. Being ...

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New Moon Interview: Michael Sheen

...I was a kid I was very into Elric who’s in a series of stories by a writer named Michael Moorcock. And Elric is an albino, sort of drug addicted, melancholic prince and I always loved his character. They always tend to be character form sort of science fiction and fantasy. Which is not the main thing I’m known for, I suppose, but I always love those characters. There’...

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Now what?

...words you use. This brings me back to my beginnings as a children’s writer because my I.R. is an Inupiaq child. My main goal was to have... about?) As Bahe said, “If there were more great stories about Native fiction or Native type fairy tales, or Action packed comics with Natives, or Science Fiction of “Natives in Space!” that would be kind of neat.” Totally. As Uma Krishnaswami said: “We need ...

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Yuletide letter

Dear Yuletide Writer, Thank you! It's incredibly lovely of you to be... life? Thank you very much, anonymous writer! Ace is the fandom I've loved...also are OCs. You are awesome, Yuletide Writer. Link to source material: Episodes on ... or breaking away from archetypes, soft science fiction and fantasy, middle schoolers' social... rock too. As do you, Yuletide Writer. I really like Xzar and Montaron....

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Meta: Beta Resources List

.... Be balanced. Be honest. In that order." briarwood: Thoughts on the role of the Beta - on betaing even for people whose fics have lots of problems Andrew Burt - The Diplomatic Critiquer sample critiques from critters.org (science fictional) Amy Sterling Casil: Hardcore Critique Advice - critiquing checklist/tips, aimed at original fic writers luminousmarble in betas_anonymous: I

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River of Entanglements

... Noises From Inanimate Objects , and this one is even better. It's written in the form of an encyclopedia on the life and work of obscure science fiction writer Phoebus K. Dank. (One entry incidentally talks about a character Dank created named Philip K. Dick.) Miller's fictional PKD is like a more extreme version ...

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