I attempted to write a second follow-up to Holland Bay this summer. It reached sixty thousand words when I realized it was falling apart. Now, the advice to neophyte writers is always, “Don’t give up. First drafts always suck. You’ll never get it done if you quit.” Years ago, one writer going through a serious…
There’s that old clip (several, actually) from Family Guy where Stewie makes fun of Brian for working on that novel since almost the beginning of the series (Well over 20 years ago at this point. Original Meg Lacey Chabert is doing Hallmark movies now!) The digs at how long Brian has been writing this magnum…
The other day, I listened to the Writer’s Journey podcast with guest J. Diane Dotson. The topic was worldbuilding. Diane is a science fiction writer who’s clearly read Asimov. Some of the details she mentions come straight out of Asimov’s work. One thing she mentioned was what it looks like to be in a setting….