Science Fiction
David A Simpson.
Articles
Christmas: The Season of Sci Fi.
The boundaries of Science Fiction have no limits except the imagination of the writer. The inventive fantasy of myth and legend bring new material into this colourful wonderland topic.
Avid readers of this page, welcome to the Writers Twilight Zone. Please feel free to enter and find the abstract reality in the world you have yet to experience. The world of publication.
All writers push their imagination to the limits to create new story lines, but what are the taboos? The areas that will create adverse reaction or criticism.
Writing is an art, and art comes in many different styles with each style reflecting the feelings and skills of the artist. So what type of artist are you?
As a Science Fiction writer or hopefully Author do other people look upon you as eccentric, maybe a little warped or genius for your writing style and content.
As a book reader what is it that makes you select the next novel you will read?
Writing Science Fiction allows the writer to be totally free to express the extremities of their imagination, so is it necessary to always include the inevitable relationship or sexual content?
All writers need it; to some it comes natural for most the lack of it is the cause of frustration,sleepless nights and tension. However help is availablefor writers of all types of books, just take a look at life, people and the world today and you can write a library.
Writers of Science Fiction write outside the normal restraints of life as we know it and can invent the impossible and achieve the unbelievable. So why do you allow you're writing to follow the expected normal?
Are you a reader, writer or just an inquisitive web page surfer. Do you have an unwritten book inside your head waiting for you to find the incentive to write it down. May be you feel you lack the ability, in which case you came to the right place.
Are you writing to entertain or are you writing to give some sort of message. Science Fiction writers have the ability to create abstract work with subtle messages in many different ways.
Welcome to the New Year, the year when you will achieve. Set your goal this year to complete your work and hopefully start the publication process to reveal your Science Fiction writing to the world of readers.
With the Christmas holidays rapidly approaching the Sci Fi writers attention will be drawn away from writing.Don't panic, help and advise for how to handle the demands on your time is here!
The book reviewer, the difference between a quick successful release of your new published book or more hard work. Who are they?
After the last article the question was asked?
Is my writing influenced. I would like to share the answer and thank Clayford for the question.
Weird,imaginative or influenced?
How influenced as a writer are you? The work of others is available in books, in films and on the television. So are your ideas new?
How easy is it to write a short story? How many times have you tried and then given the end result to friends to read? Try it and if you have no one else send it to me to read.
When the writing is over and the work is accepted for publishing an unknown helper will check the manuscript. You will probably never meet this person. But maybe you can help make their job easier.
How much detail do you have to write into the text and how much can be left the imagination of the reader. There are many different ways a reader can visualise your descriptions.
With so many people writing in the topic of science fiction it seems that the topic is exhausted of new ideas, but surely with a subject in which reality has no control the new ideas are waiting for the free minded to be brave enough to voice.
All writers will be confronted with a blank page. It may be paper or the screen of a word processor or computer, the problem is however much you try, the inside of your head seems as blank as the page. Here's two ways I have used to overcome blank page syndrome. ...
Writing Science Fiction allows the impossible to become possible but certain references should be exact.
Get It Published - Get It Read.
The long hours or writing, reviewing and fine-tuning your work have come to an end. What do you do know?
Writing is said to be the loneliest profession, but that is if you write full time. Most people have full time work or family commitments and find making time to write difficult enough and then frustrating because of constant interuptions. If you want to write you have to be strong, if ...
New Writers or experienced we all have different styles and encounter different problems. Here is some advise from experience, guide lines to help over come what I believe to be the most common stumbling blocks and answering the most frequently asked questions.
To write needs inspiration but has to have guide lines and a structure. I have given some ideas of basics I learned from experience.