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Gideon Smith
Welcome to my home on the web. This site contains my updates on books and my blog. The latter is a mix of musings on writing, Twitter, and other people’s work I admire.
Latest blog posts:
Guest Post: On Physics and Emergency Survival in Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy
For those of you that enjoyed my recent guest blog post on Dan Koboldt’s long running Science in SciFi/Fact in Fantasy blog series on worldbuilding cold environments, I have a followup out on emergency survival in these situations. It’s based on my training in Antarctica. This second installment just posted to Dan’s website: Dan is…
Guest Post: On Worldbuilding Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy
So the recent daily blog experiment ended, but I have not been doing nothing – I was fortunate enough to be invited to do another guest blog post on Dan Koboldt’s long running Science in SciFi/Fact in Fantasy blog series. This one is on cold environments. It’s based on my experience working in Antarctica and…
Writing Choices: Quality vs Quantity
If you follow my blog you will know that on 5/1/23 I decided to try an experiment. I wanted to see if, by writing a blog entry every day, I could create a ‘writing habit’. It was intended as a 21 day straight series, but I have decided to end it early. Why? So in…
Generating Durable Short Story Ideas
I know that for some it starts with a character. Stephen King, when writing novels, puts characters in situations and sees how they evolve. I don’t know if he does short stories that way, but I imagine some people do. For me, it usually starts with an idea or a question, or a destination (ending).…
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My Writing
To give you an idea of what I am working on…
Current Projects
Schism of the Mages’ Order
Querying
107k Epic fantasy novel
Leather and Steel
Editing
98k Epic fantasy novel
Short Stories
Writing
Science Fiction
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Gideon Smith
Scientist, nerd, science fiction and fantasy fan, author.