Summertime Science Fiction and Fact is the title that popped into my head as I thought about what I wanted to write this week. I’ve found a lot of science fiction books and science articles I want to share. Will I get ten in? Read and find out!
Now here you’ll get a real science fiction book. Or is it fantasy? Or both? It’s author Cindy Tomamichel’s collection of short stories for your reading pleasure.
Your Last Bit of Summertime Science Fiction – Or Fact?
We know Jurassic Park, a science fiction movie, had a Dilophosaurus. How much was fiction and how much is fact? You tell me! On the frontiers of science what is fact and what is fiction changes daily.
5 Funny and Weird Things I Found while cruising on the internet. I scan through the internet every day. If something tickles my fancy, I post it. Let me know if this tickles YOUR fancy and I’ll give you an audiobook of your choice. Here they are:
Who wouldn’t like a bouquet of dragonettes? I’m sorry I can’t give each of you one. But how about this?
This is your chance to enter this contest
What contest? This one:
Fellow author C.L. Cannon’s giving away books. Find out how to win $200 worth. Click above.
I’m part of this contest, so you can win one of my books too!
Your Second Funny/Weird Thing
Now You’re in the Middle of 5 Funny and Weird Things
Man, there are so many angles to this story! I could write about the insurance claim on the damaged/dead robot. I could write about a robotic lawyer suing the car company, who is defended by another robotic lawyer. Or I could write about a robot mortuary. What would you like to read? Let me know.
Heading Around the Fourth Weird/Funny Bend . . .
There’s a story behind this one. I read Heinlein”s “Methusaleh’s Children” when I was 12. It begins with an exciting chase scene where the hero has a ‘tricar’–a car that can fly and is amphibious, even operating as a submarine. I loved that. I still love amphibious cars, airplane cars, and flying boats. Fifty-two years later.
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5 Funny Things My 4 free audiobooks
Now, I have one more book that becomes an audiobook this year: Oops! Tales From the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse. I just have a paperback or ebook for you. Signed, of course.
How Do You Keep Writing and Where Do You Get Ideas? I’m glad you asked because that’s what I’ll tell you.
The first rule is to desire to write. I love writing crazy ideas into books, surprising and entertaining people. I truly would do it for nothing. In fact, my net profits so far are nothing.
I loved writingZombie Turkeys. That way I got to write ridiculous chapters with weddings and zombie turkeys.
Then, I sought to top myself with My Undead Mother-in-law. I had to make a new villain, one so evil you would feel sorry for the zombies. I made a sociopath who used cyborg animals to commit crime, like capuchin monkeys, rats, and black mambas.
Now, how would I top myself again for my third book? I hated repeating myself. I needed something related, but totally beyond a mere undead mother-in-law. How about if I put the zombie family on a luxury yacht, give them a letter of marque from the President, and send them around the world fighting American enemies, public and private? That’s a start!
My undead family would be zombie pirates. But that phrase is too common. Paranormal Privateers became the title of my third book.
I got stuck writing this book. How could I keep topping myself? My paranormal privateers fought pirates, slavers, terrorists, and prevented a nuclear holocaust. What could come next?
I needed a change, a total surprise. But how do I get there? What did I want to write? I loved 1950s science fiction movies. So I wrote what I loved. That is how you break writer’s block. Return to your passion.
I can’t tell you what I did without spoiling the book, but I’ll give you some hints.
Your first hint:
Your first hint
Now, your second hint.
Your second hint.
That is your second rule to keep writing year after year: write what you love.
I finished Paranormal Privateers two months after NaNoWriMo, in January 2018. It appeared in ebook and print on Amazon and later Audible.
But what would I write next? I burned myself out on zombies. This leads to your third rule.
How Do You Keep Writing: Write Something New
Where could I go next? What else did I love writing? What did I love reading? Young adult science fiction. Everyone wants a superhero origin story. I wanted to do one of those for my fourth book.
But this had to be different, unusual. Superman got his power from birth on another planet. Batman got his power through intelligence and training. How about an ordinary hero? How about an unlikely hero? What was the least likely hero?
Now I get personal. My daughter’s been disabled with cerebral palsy since her birth. What if my hero had cerebral palsy–and his superpower didn’t take it away?
Then superheroes often come in teams. What if they were all disabled, each with a different disability and a different superpower?
