There’s more about the picture below at this link: http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=3058. Just in case someone on the SF side has a latent lust for swords as well as blasters.
Tag: research
Basics of Writing: Words
The right words in the right order….the foundation of every phrase, every sentence, every paragraph, page, chapter, volume…is made of words. In speech, the dictionary meaning of words is often less important than the physical speaker’s visual and auditory presence: facial expression, not just one but several in sequence..gesture and posture–again, not just individually but Read More…
Hockham Road Level Crossing: Example of Accident Investigation
This was just one of the accident/near-miss investigations I read from the RAIB site, thanks to Mike D sending me the link. It’s an excellent example (so were others, but this one had colored images enough to really “feel” the whole accident and its precursors on both the train side and the signallers’ side.) Read More…
Do Writers Need a Degree? (Did They Ever?) (Does Anybody?)
In the pedantic fashion of those with degrees, I will start off with qualifications of the topic…it depends…on what the writer’s writing, what the writer intends to do with what the writer is writing, what outside sources the writer might need to explore to cover the chosen subject…and which degree we’re talking about. The value Read More…
Reader Help Needed!
Late arriving inspiration…and I suddenly need the names of the instructors at the Slotter Key Academy that Ky mentioned in Engaging the Enemy when she was visiting the Mackensee homeworld, at the dinner with the founder of that merc company. And predictably, though it was around two or three weeks ago when I was looking Read More…
A Brief Note on the Next Book
Cold Welcome is set in the Vatta Universe, with some of the familiar characters from Vatta’s War and a sizeable cast of new ones. It’s currently in revision, Editor having found many ways to improve it. In the interim between sending it in and getting Editor’s Letter, other things piled up on the desk and Read More…