This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts information needed to improve as a writer. […]Continue Reading

I’m working on some new posts with new ideas and writing prompts, but in the meantime figured I’d post some upcoming new science fiction releases. I’ve obviously not read any of these so I’ve included the descriptions from their publishers, but these sound like some great reads and I look forward to checking out at […]Continue Reading

My favorite place to find inspiration and motivation for my writing is by listing to existing published authors. And the best place to find those authors is podcasts. Below are five of my favorites. I’ve honestly had a hard time finding science fiction-specific writing podcasts, but within this list below you’ll find interviews with many […]Continue Reading

Alien Invasion Story Ideas/Writing Prompts Aliens are not our friends An alien species starts communicating with us from afar. Over a period of twenty years, in which we believe they are friendly, we prepare for their eventual arrival. The Ocean Aliens Aliens invade who can only live in the water. The Returned Hybrid humanoid aliens […]Continue Reading

This is not so much an exercise of creativity, but of memory and research. I thought it might be interesting to think of all of the ways life as we know it might end. Many of these are no doubt simplistic, well-known, and all-out sci-fi tropes. Just figured it’d be great to get them all […]Continue Reading