by Hyram Voltage | Oct 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Authors often brag about hiding in their writing cave scribbling away, not seeing sunlight for days, not socializing, just cranking out words. I must be a lousy writer. I run six to seven zoom meetings a month. One set of meeting for a screenwriting group and another... by Hyram Voltage | Aug 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Saturday was sad. Two newspaper comic creators/spearheads announced they were retiring. That’s not bad. If you plan and live below your means, and save a little money then retiring is great. But during these times I need all the humor I can get. And the comics... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
A friend submitted a piece to a newsletter, and he’s ashamed of it. In the piece he expressed his opinion. Those opinions are not the the groups opinions. His opinions are not immoral or criminal. They’re his opinions. Why have the politically correct... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sometime you read a story and it’s not great, maybe forgettable. But the book has an idea and that idea has legs. Gallagher’s Glacier has a standard plot of asteroid miners treated like slaves rebelling. One of the heroes of the story builds a space ship... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am not getting much done on my books. I have health problems and ‘m forced to stay home and away from people. So why can’t I get more writing done? You would think that forced isolation would be great for a writer. But even introverts need social... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week I attended four zoom meetings. Three of the meeting I hosted. Of those three meetings, two of them I generated an agenda and after the meeting I generated minutes. So what did I do this weekend. I competed in a contest to talk to as many people, one on one,... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
May I recommend a literary science fiction book written by a philosopher. Olaf Stapledon was a British philosopher that wrote science fiction books in the 1930s. These are not fast paced, light-reading, but his books influenced many later science fiction authors. He... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
I had lunch with Ray Bradbury back in the 1970s. I know, that was before you were born. Still he was one of the classic science fiction writers. He sold his first story in 1938 so he had been writing for a long time before I first met him. He considered himself a... by Hyram Voltage | May 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
You’ve heard of the old axiom of write what you know. Don’t buy into it. Issac Asimov was a teacher at a college and wrote Science Fiction. If you have not read his books you should try some. He wrote over 200 books, but many were hard science books. He... by Hyram Voltage | May 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
My copy editor said my story ending is rushed. When you pay someone for comments you better consider those comments. I thought I wrapped the ending up with a bow in one chapter. The problem is the heroine has been trapped in a mine all story long and has no...