Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Hubble’s Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies
Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in 2004 unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure reveals the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called “dark ages”, the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated […]
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Note to self
It’s been an interesting week. Hectic. Lots of ups and downs. There are moments when writing when I breakthrough, glimpse something that excites me. The moment hangs, I enjoy it while it lasts, and inevitably it wanes. Then you go back to the keyboard and the answers aren’t forthcoming…you struggle, […]
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Quote: H.G. Wells on ‘Professors of Foresight’
H.G. Wells produced many novels and works of non-fiction about the future. The foregoing transcript was aired by the BBC on 19 November, 1932 at the end of a radio program about communications.
It seems an odd thing to me that though we have thousands and thousands of professors and hundreds of thousands of students […]
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
‘Why Did my Story Get Rejected?’ (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
This didn’t come out of the Clarion South workshop. I discovered it when doing some web research. This article from Marion Zimmer Bradley provides the reasons why stories get rejected. It’s a great checklist against which we may ‘road test’ our stories.
Here’s a snippet from the article and for complete details click through […]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Switching stories is half the fun
Today I was working on ‘The Workers’. About mid-afternoon I hit a huge impasse. I just couldn’t get passed a plot point. I was trying to type and the words just weren’t coming. I doubted the conflict in the story, the tension, I couldn’t find something that was really appealing for […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Clarion South: Week One Learnings
Ok, so these are some of the general learnings I took away from all of our sessions with this week. Though this doesn’t include the handouts, these are the observations I made during the crit sessions which resulted from some of the general discussions. I wrote these in my notebook as things I […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Punch on through…
Well, it’s Saturday. Perhaps I should have spent today in the city of Brisbane, relaxing. That’s tomorrow. I went for a cycle this morning at about 7:30am. I lasted thirty minutes, it’s so humid up here. Pleased though I did something physical.
I’ve been writing most of the day. Thankfully, […]
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
Types of Science Fiction stories…
It’s always dangerous terrain to look at the different forms of story. Someone said (I’ve no idea who) that there are six basic story ideas. I put them in the same basket as those that think computers can test songs for the likelihood whether they’ll be hits (and there are machines that claim […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Future-tech to Antimatter weapons….
Two interesting stories presented at the critique today and some very interesting discussion. One of the stories explored ‘future-tech’ in a war situation. Really, the possibilities it presented are quite plausible (can’t mention details as it’s not my story) and it made me think about Science Fiction writing in general.
There are lots of […]
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
A few learnings, short stories and some fun stuff
I seemed to have a headache most of the day. Not sure whether it’s the intensity of the critique sessions and writing, the heat or maybe I’ve just had a good run and it was due. At any rate, I found myself a bit paralysed to do much. Struggled through ok, but […]