karenterrywrites: coutelier: karenterrywrites: What’s your biggest writing challenge? I’m curious Mine is tackling plot holes Where to begin… that is, the first pages or chapters. And the last. I never like things to end, and figuring out where they should …
Month: May 2017
Are you working on something?
megdegrant: A novel, short story, etc? Tell me! I’m curious to know what other people are working on 🙂 Currently working on a contemporary sci-fi adventure story, which is the sequel to first novel I finished and published. Although I’m …
Life Cycle of Sci-Fi
One of the problems when writing a science fiction story is that real science and technology leapfrogs your imagination, which of course is generally a good thing (only very rarely do things turn out to be as world end-y as …
When do you think theropods became “the” dinosaurs? If you ask people on the street to draw or imagine “a dinosaur”, I think something like T. rex or Velociraptor will be the first thing that comes to mind, albeit featherless. But back when my dad was a kid “dinosaur” brought to mind a sauropod, probably Brontosaurus (sic) and probably semi-aquatic. When do you think the popular default image of a “dinosaur” went from lumbering sauropods to active, “awesomebro” theropods?
a-dinosaur-a-day: Jurassic Park Theropods have long been cast as the villains in media (even in the original King Kong), but usually opposed by a Brontosaurus or Triceratops. Pretty much every dinosaur book I read as a child would have an …
Names and meaning
When I’m naming characters, well often I’ll just browse some of the baby naming websites that are out there. If it’s a minor character I might just pick something at random that sounds good. If I know something like the …