How to write great fiction without being didactic, while under stress, while living a full life? How to write in your head and find where you wanted your writing to go while doing other things than writing? How to relay environmental subjects, even big ones like global warming, in your […]
Read MoreNote: Updated for part 3 of the SSF World series. I’d like to share some resources and thoughts on “ecological weird” fiction. After sitting in a couple panels about ecologically oriented fiction at Science Fiction and Fantasy World, I came onboard as a volunteer writer for the site. My first […]
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I wrote a personal blog here about Ursula K. Le Guin on how her life inspired me and how her death made me sad but also energized. Today I found some of her writing tips for novelists at Novel Now. To summarize: Study every aspect of your craft, including punctuation […]
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Back to the series This December I review the past 15 months of author spotlights, which cover fiction writing in the Anthropocene. Based upon talking with many authors in the past four years, and spotlighting their works, I have come up with writing tips. This review also reflects the writing […]
Read MoreWhat is solarpunk? Please see this thread in SFF World for a roundtable of thoughts about what solarpunk is and how to think about creating stories in the genre. I also asked this question to Adam Flynn recently, and he described it as: Solarpunk is a somewhat promiscuous adjective, used […]
Read MoreBy Stephan Malone, Guest Author Are you considering a new project that involves human induced climate activist fiction? You may have all the tricks ready to deploy that make a great story, such as characters the reader cares about, staying in the correct tense throughout the manuscript, a good feel […]
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