As a writer of speculative fiction, I’m wary of time travel as a narrative tool. It occupies this strange place where it somehow both makes things easier and makes things more complicated. Take Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I love the “time turner” sequence. It does a great job of resolving the major […]
January 10, 2014 by 18 Comments NarrativeWe Are All Sci-Fi Writers: Making Use of Time Travel in Writing
April 20, 2012 by 31 Comments CharactersHow to Create Distinctive Character Voices
Did you ever have those Shakespeare quizzes in high school in which your evil teacher gave you a list of random quotations from the play you were studying and asked you to identify the speaker? I remember being terrified of those quizzes in theory but enjoying them in practice. Not because they were easy (the teacher never chose the […]
