Category: For writers
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Here is a good visual tip on how your W.I.P is being received. It’s a great way to see where you might have some stalling in your storyline and where the peaks and valleys are. I am going to use this from now on. I am using WattPad.com as a proving ground. There is great…
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One of my favorite topics at the dinner table, these days, is when the subject of disasters comes up. I immediately refer to the Carrington event of 1859. Having one of these today would bring almost everything we know, to a standstill, but serve as a great equalizer to 3rd world nations. A study by Lloyd’s…
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If the game of golf has been said, ‘as being a beautiful walk, interrupted.’ then the isomerism can be said about surfing the internet ‘as being a walk beautifully interrupted.’ I was conducting research for my Work In Progress (Silversides) and found a wiki post that was exactly what I was looking for (artificial gills), but…
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A rocket science friend sent me an article posted on the BBC, titled: “How will the universe end, and could anything survive. “ The article contained some known (Big Crunch, Inflation) and unknown (Heat Death, Phantom Dark Energy) concepts to me. But reading through all of these got me thinking: how many sci-fi works have…
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I was reminded by a G+ post, by Ralph Roberts, of the brilliant Dava Newman and her recent appointment to NASA. When writing Sci-fi, think about what your characters are wearing, in space. I had viewed a TED presentation by Dava Newman, of her work, on EVA design. It was such a valuable visual…
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I had just finished writing a sci-fi serial on OffWorlders.com called, Kulcin’s Law, where most of the story takes place in Jupiter’s realm, with several flights in and out of Europa’s orbit. I missed a bit of detail that would have been a nice morsel to the hard core readers and that was a simple line…
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For those of us writing about distant planets, the question always comes up, how real is this going to be for my readers? I am faced with this exact question in my current work and I want it to be as plausible as I can make it. So after watching this fantastic lecture by Sara Seager,…
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Above is a simulation of the gravitational lensing of two orbiting black holes by the SxS group or research scientists. I stumbled upon this site (Simulating Extreme Spacetimes) , which was put together by multiple institutions for research on black holes, neutron stars and other extreme events ‘To better understand Relativity and the physics of…
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As a writer of hard sci-fi, getting the science plausible is important and traveling through the solar system at conventional speeds has been a problem, until now. Here is some tech to make that transit, plausible; granted, the VASIMR needs a few hacks, but nothing a sci-fi writer can’t do in their sleep. Read the…
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As a Hard core Sci-Fi writer, I want to get the science, at least near, right for my readers. When it comes to space travel, this is where your seasoned, educated readers will pick your work apart. Yes, there is a certain artistic licensing an author will use to get through space and time, but…
David Nadas 