Today, I am beginning my final attempt at writing this story that I have tried to write off and on for nearly 7 years now. It is, I think, a novel, but I won’t know for sure until it is finished. If I can’t do it right this time, I’m giving it up as too…
The Little Man is learning about the scientific method in school: making observations, asking a question, forming a hypothesis, making predictions, testing prediction, wash, rinse, repeat. Writing this novel, while not a perfect fit for the scientific method, certainly borrows from it. Observations I have made in the past when attempting to write at length…
As I start on this novel, I think it is important to know where I am in my writing career. What follows is a brief summary. I started writing and submitting stories to magazines while a junior in college in early 1993. After 14 years of writing stories and submitting them to (mostly) science fiction…