How to get your writing done: 6 tips
“I don’t have time to write.” We’ve all said it. Or thought it. Or heard our friends say it. And when faced with all the crazy demands of modern life, it seems so obvious, so irrefutable, so crushingly insurmountable. It’s the one excuse that always rings true: I want to write. I try to write.…
The word “awesome” and saving the world
I swear that I had planned to write something completely unrelated to politics for my second blog post. I’m a science fiction writer, after all, so I had planned to write about fiction. Or science, even. Incidentally, I had also planned to write my second blog post much earlier. But life, and the Dionysian orgy…
Politics and Science Fiction
Dystopian novels like 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, and It Can’t Happen Here are currently selling like the proverbial hotcakes, apparently fueled by peoples’ fears of the authoritarian tendencies of Mr. Trump and company. Of course, dystopian SF has been in vogue for a while—just think of the Hunger Games or Divergent franchises—and…
O. A. Beckett 