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Sci-Fi Story Elements That Really Hook Me!

May 5, 2018Nalin 2 Comments

For well over a year now, I’ve been spinning my wheels on a sequel to Red Soil Through Our Fingers. Despite the well-known writing advice that the first draft will be crap and you just have to power through it,… Continue Reading →

SFF Genre, My Stories, Writing ideas, futurism, characters, literary fiction, elemental genre, fantasy, hard sf, science fiction, identity, space opera, plot

Thinking About Style

July 29, 2013Nalin Leave a Comment

Friends and family seem to like The Parched Lands and I’ve gotten some good feedback from others. I like the story well enough. And as a science teacher, I will undoubtedly continue to think about the issues that the story… Continue Reading →

Writing structure, ideas, story, craft, prose, literature, style
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