A couple of people have asked me to write up some advice on this, so I thought ‘Why not!’…. When we think about writing for the speculative fiction community, we often think of short stories, novels, and poetry — the imaginative worlds that readers escape into. But non-fiction is just as vital to the field,ContinueContinue reading “How to Pitch Non-Fiction to SFWA, BSFA Focus Magazine, and Other Speculative Fiction Venues”
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Video Game Psychology for Writers: Achieving Writing Goals through Gamification
I have been fortunate to write guest blog posts before for SFWA on science, and my latest one is on using the psychological science utilized in video games to help you meet your writing goals. The link to it is below. I hope you enjoy, and as always, please do reach out to me directlyContinueContinue reading “Video Game Psychology for Writers: Achieving Writing Goals through Gamification”
Setting SMARTER Writing Goals – Part II
So in the first part I reviewed the acronym SMARTER. If you haven’t read that, this part won’t make sense so if you’d like to review just go here. For those of you up to date, we had used this framework to create an example goal saying that if what I was excited about wasContinueContinue reading “Setting SMARTER Writing Goals – Part II”
Setting SMARTER Writing Goals – Part I
Project management tools can be useful for writers, and help you stay on track. The first step in using these is setting effective goals. There are a number of frameworks that can be used. My preference is the mnemonic S.M.A.R.T.E.R. goals, an acronym that stands for: Specific – If you want to target word count,ContinueContinue reading “Setting SMARTER Writing Goals – Part I”
Guest Post: On Physiology in Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy
For those of you that enjoyed my recent guest blog posts on Dan Koboldt’s long running Science in SciFi/Fact in Fantasy blog series on worldbuilding cold environments, the third and final installment has just posted. It’s based on my training in Antarctica, and this final installment being about physiologic response to cold, this one leanedContinueContinue reading “Guest Post: On Physiology in Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy”
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 isContinueContinue reading “Guest Post: On Physics and Emergency Survival in Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy”
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 andContinueContinue reading “Guest Post: On Worldbuilding Cold Environments for Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy”
Guest Post: Writing for the SFWA Blog
As I stated in my last post – you may have noticed I have been a little slower with blog posts here lately as I have been fortunate to write guest blog posts elsewhere and that has kept me busy. The second of these has just come out on the Science Fiction and Fantasy WritersContinueContinue reading “Guest Post: Writing for the SFWA Blog”
Guest Post: Dan Koboldt’s Science in SciFi
So I have not posted a blog post here recently, but it is because I was fortunate enough to be invited to do guest blog posts a couple of places. The first of those to come out is a post on the Science of Skin in Fiction, which is a guest blog post on DanContinueContinue reading “Guest Post: Dan Koboldt’s Science in SciFi”
Perseids Meteor Shower Next Three Days
One of the things I love about science fiction is the ability to imagine other worlds and the possibilities in the immense universe in which we live. Growing up in rural Scotland, our long, dark, winter nights were the perfect canvas for my imagination. Staring at the stars there you could see the entire bandContinueContinue reading “Perseids Meteor Shower Next Three Days”
Gideon P. Smith 