Many moons ago, I did a post on ways to make your sci-fi technology more realistic. My day job is in aerospace engineering and am I also a serial nitpicker with more pet peeves than you can shake a stick at, so if you thought that post was the end of my ranting – well,… Continue reading 4 more tips for writing realistic sci-fi technology
Research is one of my favorite parts of the writing process, but I’ll be the first to admit I tend to overdo it. Back in the pre-Google days, my mom was a reference librarian, so this is practically written into my DNA. I grew up in a house stacked with reference books, with an on-call… Continue reading Do you really need to Google that? A beginner’s guide to novel research
Once upon a time, I got bit by a story bug and spent the entire weekend doing barrels and barrels of research for a manuscript that may or may not ever actually end up being written, ignoring friends, relations, and my cat as they expressed concern for my sanity and time management skills. And by… Continue reading So, you want to retell a fairy tale
Let me say one thing very loudly and very clearly right now: sci-fi does not have to be scientifically accurate to be good. This is one of the profound truths upon which my view of the universe is built. All fiction relies on suspension of disbelief to a certain degree, and there are no rules… Continue reading An engineer’s guide to writing realistic sci-fi
I have a problem, and my problem is reference books. I would say I collect them, but that’s not quite true – I hoard them. Thanks to my mother, a former reference librarian, I grew up in a house packed with obscure reference books, and clearly I have inherited the obsession. I am one of… Continue reading Books every writer should have on their shelf
