Ancient Logic

In addition to a panel on writing horror, macabre, and supernatural tales, for Arisia 2018, I'm also in a panel entitled "Emotional Impact - Making Readers Care!" End of Day by Morgan Crooks (2017) Assuming for a moment I've written stories containing characters readers care about, what advice could I give to aspiring writers? To repeat a bit from last post, my big three pieces of advice are rather simple and self-evident: Read Everything Write as Much as Possible Reflect on Your Art To paraphrase from the previous writing advice post, read  everything simply means an aspiring writer must first be a diligent reader. You must be a fan of those books generating a strong emotional response. As you begin to figure out what you like and don't like in stories and other types of literature, begin to  write . I do not think you need to write every single day to be a writer. I also don't think you somehow stop being a writer if you put down the pen (so t...

"So, what is Cosmic Weird?" said Lance Newblood of the Rocket Legionnaires, twisting the control yoke of his YD-3000 combat vehicle to the left. "Is it something new or simply nostalgia?" Twin neon spirals of anti-ship rockets blazed past, close enough he could have spit on them. If he dared, that is, open his cockpit to the cold embrace of vacuum. "Cosmic Weird is science fiction, a sub-genre within Space Opera," replied Commander Athena Madison over the staticy commline. Encased in her famous crimson survival mesh, she weaved without effort between the combat droids of the Tethyan Hierarchy, the control fields of her suit interacting with separate Eisentein frames to propell her forward, backward, and sideways with shocking ease. Very little of this suit made sense to Lance or any other reputable scientist, but it worked. In a universe filled with implacable and deadly foes like the Hierarchy, the government could be forgiven for overlooking a few a...