Jul 01
Final Horizon has an unusual history. I had an idea for a space horror novel that I tentatively called Butterflies, a particularly and intentionally deceptive name. But I never wrote it because I didn’t see the point. Just another monster story. Just another alien planet. It didn’t really have anything to say other than as …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.duanevore.com/final-horizon-approaches/
Dec 29
There are a few things that people shouldn’t do unless they can’t help it. Unless they were born to do it. Two of those are writing and teaching, and I am afflicted with both. If you’ve read my profile anywhere, you know that I’ve been writing for a long, long time. I’m not even …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.duanevore.com/why-i-havent-written-for-children/
Jan 19
My need for portable writing came abruptly: my laptop died. It wasn’t a spectacular death; it just refused to recognize that I had the power adapter plugged in. If the battery would charge, it would still work. I noticed this failure a while before it drained its last watt-second, and made provisions to stay in …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.duanevore.com/the-portable-writing-solution/
Dec 20
We all know what hard sci-fi is, don’t we? It’s that … well…. I thought I knew what it was until I visited KindleBoards, which I don’t do nearly as often as I should, and checked in on a thread I’d commented on. Another member had said that he read mostly hard science fiction, biographies, …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.duanevore.com/hard-sci-fi/
Jun 11
As you might know, each book of The Saga of Banak-Zuur has a prologue. They also have epilogues, but that’s another post, I suppose. Writing those prologues has been one of the high points of the series; they’ve been a lot of fun. Here I present two of my favorites, with the understanding that they …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.duanevore.com/preview-two-prologues/
Recent Comments