I’m a lucky writer.
I participate in two writing groups that are very supportive, both at meeting time and after. One is based in a Unitarian church, and the small group is well-meaning and cheerful, though the members aren’t regularly published; it’s mostly people who like to write for themselves. The other is part of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sci-fi’
5 Oct
Just write it
8 Mar
Hooray for Hollywood
My husband and I watch movies together. When I pick them.
We’ve adored The Color Purple, Thelma and Louise, Boys on the Side. We love sci-fi, all the different permutations of “people trapped in a metal tube in space/underwater/in time/somewhere and menaced by a monster/vampire/creature/mother-in-law.” We go back and forth on comedies (intelligent) and dramas (psychological). [...]
11 Jan
That’s why they call it work
As a writer friend of mine scolded, “It may be fun to chunk out novel after novel, but until you put in the work to edit, they will never go anywhere!”
So today begins the work on the novel I penned in November, during my first experience at NaNoWriMo. (For anyone who hasn’t done this, I [...]
7 Jan
Where has all the smart, funny sci-fi gone?
I suppose I could subtitle this: “OR WHY I NO LONGER WATCH THE FOX NETWORK.”
Yes, fellow sci-fi fans, this is about Joss Whedon’s Firefly, and follow-up Serenity. Each time I think I’ve got the sting out of my system that it’s cancelled, BAM, someone brings up the subject again and opens the wound. Nooooo not [...]
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