#PhantastikPrompts MAY-16 Warum schreibst du SciFi bzw. Fantasy und nicht genau das andere? Ist doch ein und dasselbe, oder?

Jein. Es gibt große Überschneidungen der beiden Genres und aus einer gewissen Perspektive heraus sind die Ähnlichkeiten durchaus sichtbar.

Genau genommen ist die Überschneidung bei soft Sci-Fi und soft Fantasy bzw. urban Sci-Fi und urban Fantasy größer als bei hard Sci-Fi und hard Fantasy.

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#PennedPossibilities 1012 How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Callum hates having to go to the hospital and avoids doing so like the plague if he can help it, because he knows, doctors and nurses solely rely on #AI. Such reliance had cost his wife her life and he would better not know how many other.

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#ScribesAndMakers 7 May: When did you think of the idea for your current project? Do you remember how it came about?

Nine years ago, I critiqued a horror short story by a better writer than I. He thought my comments were so helpful, he suggested I try writing horror.

I thanked him, basked in his generosity for a while, and privately dismissed the idea at first. But it wouldn't let go of me. So I asked, what is most horrific? Being eaten, not necessarily alive.

Using that idea, I wrote the first chapter of my current WIP as a 3.5k-word short story for Pseudopod. The editor said I "hit all the right beats for horror (on several different levels)," and almost bought it, but passed because it was just too weird.

Now, it's a decent novel I'm editing per critique comments. Will it sell? My plan is to find out later this year.

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This week on my #scifi #writing #podcast I continue my exploration of #TheCulture with a comparison of Contact with the Federation of #StarTrek and their #PrimeDirective. Spoiler: They're almost completely opposite.

https://lexstarwalker.com/lol/103

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This week on my #scifi #writing #podcast I discuss finishing my latest novel.

https://lexstarwalker.com/lol/102

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