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Revealing My Obsessions

I ran the complete set of posts from this blog through the Wordle program. Wordle calculates word frequencies, translates them to physical sizes, and uses this information to lay out the most frequent words in interesting ways. The image below, therefore, shows you just what I talk about most in this blog. If you haven’t [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #5

Finally, part 5 of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set. Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and what is not real. Do not write if you [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #4

And here is part 4 of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set. Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and what is not real. Do not write [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #3

Over the past two days, I have published the first two parts of  my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set. Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #2

Yesterday, I published the first expansion on my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. This is the full set. Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and what is not real. Do not [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto: Detail #1

A while ago, I wrote my sci-fi writer’s manifesto: five simple statements intended to guide my writing. In case you missed them, here they are. Write only about what is real, or about what can reasonably be foreseen based on what is real. Be honest about what is real and what is not real. Do [...]

A Sci-Fi Writer’s Manifesto

Recently, a friend of mine urged writers to develop an ‘Artistic Life Purpose Statement’ and boldly offered her own. Now, I’ve done ‘the vision thing’ quite a lot in my time. I was once a manager in IBM and I’ve been a business consultant. Most ‘vision statements’ are a complete waste of time – platitudes, [...]