How to Polish Your Prose

How to Polish Your Prose

In the latest installment of Geek Gab: On the Books, I draw from my editing experience to offer writing advice to aspiring authors. How do you avoid the most common writing mistakes made by new authors? How can authors identify and break bad writing habits? Why does second person POV…
October 5, 2017
Whither Hollywood?

Whither Hollywood?

Vox Popoli commenter ZhukovG ponders the future of films based on best selling novels in the post-Big Five era. Just my uneducated opinion, but it appears that in the future, if you put in the work, it will be easier to 'make a living' as a writer but much harder…
October 4, 201710 Comments
The Currentest of Years

The Currentest of Years

Dragon Award loser John Scalzi has come down with writer's block. The cause of the Tor author's affliction? President Donald Trump and the weather: I started Head On in January with the plan to be done in the first half of the year, to leave the rest of the year…
October 3, 201781 Comments
#ComicsGate: Diversity is Conformity

#ComicsGate: Diversity is Conformity

If anyone still wonders why comic book fans are up in arms over the desecration of their hobby by malicious SJW writers, artists, and editors, this Twitter exchange perfectly sums up the controversy: Got that? comics industry SJWs push for more "diversity", by which they mean ideological conformity. Fans note…
October 2, 201712 Comments
Praxis

Praxis

There's been a great deal of discussion lately among serious, intelligent people about how to save science fiction. It's an open secret that SF once dominated in print as it now does in film, on television, and in video games. But the concerted efforts of malicious gatekeepers have relegated the…
September 29, 20176 Comments
Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

The International Lord of Hate recently waded into a FaceBook thread started by author Mark Wandrey that had been darkened by a Campbellian Kool-Aid swiller who showed up to lecture the best-selling authors' fans about how hard science fiction is the only science fiction. Glenn: "Lowbrow readers want to be told…
September 28, 201725 Comments
Soft Narcissism

Soft Narcissism

Alex over at Amatopia continues the discussion on conservatism's cultural failures begun by myself and Rawle Nyanzi. Alex's contribution is to go a bit more in-depth about why conservatives abandoned the field to Leftists in the arts. I contend that by abandoning the arts, conservatives created this illusion of being…
September 27, 20174 Comments
Practical to a Fault

Practical to a Fault

Rawle Nyanzi picks up from my previous post on the continued failures of conservatism with his theory on why conservatives have totally abdicated their former dominance in the arts. Mainstream conservatives are too practical, and this is why they ignore the arts. The US conservative ethos can be summed up…
September 26, 201713 Comments
The Most Principled Guys on the Cinder

The Most Principled Guys on the Cinder

A common rhetorical tactic of the Left is to accuse their opponents of sounding angry--as if all the folks in flyover country whom the coastal bubble dwellers bitterly hate are a legion of hotheaded Skywalkers charged with a violation of the Jedi Code. An even worse sin than general anger…
September 25, 201714 Comments
The Convergence of Science Fiction

The Convergence of Science Fiction

YouTuber Max Kolbe recently had me on his show to explain how the SJW convergence of tradpub science fiction happened. Max is particularly interested in the sudden shift from stories that took the Christian worldview for granted to overtly atheistic, anti-religious works. We discussed how John W. Campbell ended the…
September 22, 201716 Comments