So I got emailed by Inkitt. It was a gmail address that didn’t contain the name of the company. Just ‘I am a Marketing Manager at a publishing company.’ But it did have a name and a promise that ‘If …
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It’s or its?
I keep getting this wrong even though I know the rule – I just often don’t pay attention. The reason this is confusing to many people is that we’re taught to use apostrophes to show possession, which most of the …
Things Sci-Fi gets wrong all the time
Like I’ve said, I’m not really nitpicky about sci-fi. It only bothers me if fiction isn’t internally consistent, or occasionally if something seems to be the result of a lack of research (a character that’s a doctor, or forensics expert, …
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 …
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 …