One of the first posts I wrote for this blog dealt with Speculative Mystery rules and focused on the rules for the Mystery genre developed by the Detection Club. Beyond those rules, a rival set was developed and outlined by S.S. Van Dyne (a.k.a. Willard Huntington Wright) in an article called Twenty Rules for Writing [...]
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Deriving ‘rules’ from what we’re NOT about…
Posted in Short fiction, speculative fiction, tagged mystery, speculative mystery, writing on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why does TV get Speculative Fiction right more often than Film?
Posted in speculative fiction, writing, tagged movies, speculative fiction, television, writing on December 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
JB Dryden made the comment that television produces more a consistent quality of Speculative fiction than film. That got me asking myself: “why?”
JB went on to mention the tendency of film to grab the nearest Specfic novel as the basis of their projects. Television does the same on occasion, but with a slight difference:
TV tends to [...]
Inspiration from other interests – juggling hats
Posted in Short fiction, speculative fiction, writing, tagged Inspiration, Science Fiction, Short fiction, writing on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In my previous post, I mentioned my short story featuring a Technological Singularity in a historical setting. I thought it would be a good spark for a discussion on inspiration.
Firstly, I should make it clear that I didn’t set out to write about a technological Singularity in ancient times. It was more a case of [...]
The hubbub with campfires and duopolies: Parallels between Specfic short fiction and Comics
Posted in Short fiction, speculative fiction, tagged big 3, comics, Short fiction, Specfic on November 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I just read Hub magazine # 30 (available in PDF and other formats at www.hub-mag.co.uk). In it, an interesting editorial by Alasdair Stuart entitled ‘The Banquo Effect’ reflects upon the UPHEAVAL in the world of specific print mags (or at least, the BIG 3) and quite sensibly points to the various successes of online specific [...]
