Dana sez, A useful post for writers of any age or experience, but I confess I’m sharing it mostly because of Scalzi’s use of “atemporally appealing.” Which Heinlein certainly is. If I could boil down what I see as Heinlein’s Theory of Characters. It would come to these four lessons: 1. Your Characters Doesn’t Exist in…
The blast cut off her words; the Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless rolling Stones...to Saturn...to Uranus, to Pluto...rolling on out to the stars...outward bound to the ends of the Universe.
# Permanent link to Which Came First — Flatcats? or Tribbles?
In 2009 I was asked to answer the Book Brahmins Questionnaire on Shelf Awareness. Never hard to get me talking about books I love, so I did, and here are their questions and my answers, lightly edited. On your nightstand now: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. I was raised in…
