NOVACENE: THE COMING OF AGE OF HYPERINTELLIGENCE BY JAMES LOVELOCK (with Bryan Appleyard) Penguin, London, 2019 Let me begin by… Read more GAIA: 5 STAR BOOK REVIEW
Category: Research for Writers
9. Putting on the Wellies / SUSPENSE
PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE IN NARRATORS NOTES FROM “The Unreliable Narrator,” a lecture by Carol Goodman Crime Bake, MA. 2019 Narrator fallibility… Read more 9. Putting on the Wellies / SUSPENSE
FIVE STAR: A STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF THE SCI-FI SHORT STORY “STORY OF YOUR LIFE.”
TED CHIANG’s amazing imagination together with his knowledge of math, science, mechanics, and linguistics has gifted us with a volume… Read more FIVE STAR: A STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF THE SCI-FI SHORT STORY “STORY OF YOUR LIFE.”
Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
Classic: Roget’s Thesaurus. Online: powerthesaurus.org Dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), especially useful for establishing historical word use Webster’s Encyclopedic… Read more Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
FIVE STAR: STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF LOU BERNEY’S NOVEMBER ROAD *****
GENRE: Thriller; 1960s-era picaresque novel. THEME: At one level, Karma; at a deeper level, Free Will as a realization that… Read more FIVE STAR: STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF LOU BERNEY’S NOVEMBER ROAD *****
Putting on the Wellies 8: Conferencing for Crime
From Crime Bake 2018 (Woburn, MA): November 2018 Two incredibly useful lectures this weekend: Geoff Symon (geoffsymon.com) lecture on representing… Read more Putting on the Wellies 8: Conferencing for Crime
Putting on the Wellies 7: Twitter
I didn’t know how and I’m still feeling my way in my rubber boots, but the Twitter writing community has… Read more Putting on the Wellies 7: Twitter
Putting on the Wellies Again: 6
How much time is wasted researching agents and wish lists and twitter-stalking fave writers and wishing for facility with one-liner… Read more Putting on the Wellies Again: 6
Putting on the Wellies 3: a picture is worth a thousand words
PINTEREST is a couch-potato way of putting on the research wellies. Here is a lookalike for my original African character… Read more Putting on the Wellies 3: a picture is worth a thousand words
Putting on the Wellies 2
Wellies-on-the-ground research in Morocco for the exotic historical fantasy: THE ALBATROSS AND THE LION.