Category: For writers
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A good friend, great thinker and NASA Software Engineer has been a terrific resource for my writing (Ray B.) sent me an article about new materials being thought of for space exploration vehicles. He has helped me so much with the real physics of space flight to make space travel plausible in my Sci-Fi. Here is yet another great…
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Here is another Tech Tip for the hard core sci-fi writer to make your space travel, plausible. And don’t forget, you need the ability to slow down, so using the concept, you can sail into the solar wind. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31556326 You can read the full abstract in Science Magazine. http://m.sciencemag.org/content/347/6224/860
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The essential guide to space probes for Sci-Fi writers. I love this site. Remember the 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture where V’Ger, the alien entity, is identified and later revealed as the legendary Voyager 6? Well, thanks to Ariel Waldman and Lisa Ballard of Spaceprob.es, this can serve any Sci-Fi Writer wanting…
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As a reader of Sci-Fi, I want to know the author has some working knowledge of the subject and technology they are writing about. Typically, readers of Sci-Fi are former technologists, biologists, mathematicians, chemists, etc. and have held Life Sciences positions in their career. As a writer, trust me, your readers will get distracted from the…
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When my novella November Seed reaches the large screen, I am going to insist it gets recorded in binaural audio. I think the close proximity of the characters and scene tightness, especially in my favorite scene where Dan and Matt are in the woods of the Adirondacks, would work very well with this tech, without looking or…
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This is such an excellent video for a writer to get an idea of what traveling through space, at the speed of light, might be like. However, there is a paradox here. If you were traveling at the speed of light, you would not have a concept of time or speed; but as a…
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I was trying to deal with writer’s block one day, thinking, oh, that’s not what I’m going through write now. I stumbled upon a post in Pinterest, and bang! Genius…
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When I first became serious about writing, I thought it wise to get advice, but pre-internet days, this was not an easy task. I had attended adult education courses at NYU in creative writing and at the New School in NYC on publishing. Added to that, I would spend time leaning against racks of books…
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One of the best ways to measure your writing skill is to hear your own work read out loud. Unfortunately, when we, as the writer, attempt to do this our writing sounds terrific—we’re bias. You really need a third party and I found one—Amy. (http://www.ivona.com/) I live in New York City and on my way to…
David Nadas 