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Medical Examiner seeks public help: Who donated the human skulls [to Goodwill]?
View ArticleMOTIVATIONAL QUOTE FROM MY FAVORITE MOVIE/NOVEL
"Will i stay or will i go?....Am I sane or am I crazy?. What world is this, What kingdom, What shores of what worlds????????????????????? It's a very big question your faced with, The choice of your...
View ArticleSharing my description writing eureka:
OK so let me try this sub-forum again. I don't know about the 'sticky quality', maybe I need a more causal eureka/inspiration sub-forum for these little things. I'm working on getting the hang of...
View ArticleRandom Chance
I have been and always will be, a fan of Liam Rector's poetry. His three books, spanned over 30 years, mean more than anything else in this world to me. The inspiring part was that when I happened to...
View Articlere-evaluating my approach to writing
Last night, I had an epiphany about my writing. It consisted of thoughts that had already been present in my consciousness, but that suddenly burst to the forefront and began clamoring for resolution....
View ArticleWhen to Ask
I'll begin with a disclaimer...I hesitate to offer anything that is crowned with the mantle of "experience", because thus far, outside of a small range of advocacy article, my lone experience has been...
View ArticleI just found out why my creativity is gone (this could help you as well)
Hello folks! Well, I am writing this fantasy book for years, and I used to aways daydream about it. I used to feel so inspired, I would aways write a bit every day. But latelly, like in a year or so,...
View ArticleA new element is discovered with special properties
I am in the long process of outlining my story, and I'm currently trying to think of some special properties of a material that is discovered after humans are colonizing several exoplanets outside of...
View ArticleMastering Style: The Learning and Teaching of Writing
This is a really interesting talk at Harvard, speaking about the clarity of writing and considerations for finding, adapting, and personalizing your style. They speak about writing in a general sense,...
View ArticleDo You Ever Not Know How to Start your Story?
Fiction writing is great, many of us are here to create fantastical worlds with colorful characters in hopes others will get lost in them just as we do when we read our favorite books. However,...
View Article'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative
Insight from an impressive author, and it won the 2014 Hugo for Best Related... 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative
View ArticleInspiration for writing an horror novel: What scared you the most?
Hi! I decided that my first novel will be an horror or fantastic drama. I want to write a novel to scare people so I would like to know what makes you scared when you watch a movie, walk in a city or...
View ArticleInner, not-so-private, socios of creativity
I don't know how to explain it but it happens. I think I'm on to something, it's enjoyable, kind of unique, and a fun project and so on. Then I look away for a break and see what's about to happen to...
View ArticleInspiration: The Correctness of Critics
Some of my all-time favorite stories are actually video games. Now before I get kicked in the nuts I would like to say that most of these stories were older games before they added voice acting to...
View ArticleExcerpts from Interview with Octavia Butler
In Motion Magazine March 14, 2004 By Joshunda Sanders .... Joshunda Sanders: People attach a lot of titles to you – Octavia Butler: Please don't call me the grand dame. Someone said it in Essence and...
View ArticleBrandon Sanderson's lectures. I recommend these to anyone who wants to write,...
http://www.writeaboutdragons.com/brandon_w2012/ You can find Youtube links to all of them there. They're simply great. His insight is well put and explained and it is also a good inspiration to get...
View ArticleSamuel R. Delany on Subtext, Interpretation, and Sex on the Page
The Paris Review Summer 2011 Samuel R. Delany, The Art of Fiction No. 210 .... INTERVIEWER You—and, indeed, several other SF writers—have called Bester’s 1956 novel, Tiger! Tiger!, the greatest...
View ArticleInterview with Bayview
View attachment 6326 View attachment 6327 Bayview (who writes as Kate Sherwood) recently entertained an interview I gave her after discovering the successes she has experienced as a published writer....
View ArticleIs It Literary or Entertainment?
Article http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/07/goldfinch-donna-tartt-literary-criticism I stumbled upon this wonderful article that shows the divide between the literary critics and writers and the...
View ArticleNew Yorker article on SF/F author Gene Wolfe
Nice, short piece on Gene Wolfe, one of the best writers going in science fiction and fantasy: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius?intcid=mod-latest His work is well...
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