I recently discovered that the Japanese have turned one of my favorite Robert Heinlein stories into a movie. The Door Into Summer, if you haven’t read it, is a classic hard-scifi story with robots, time travel, cold sleep, romance, betrayal… and a cat. The hero, Daniel Boone Davis (in the movie he’s Soichiro Takakura), is…
I hear this question a lot. How long is a chapter supposed to be anyway? Of course, the correct answer is usually “As long as it needs to be” — within reason. There’s actually a rationale behind keeping your chapters shorter, and it has to do with your readers and their attention spans. In days…
I recently asked ChatGPT to fill me in on the latest AI technologies. Here’s what it suggested: With all these new technologies, will it be long before we have an actual working artificial intelligence that knows it’s intelligent? In other words, a sentient machine? I’m waiting to see what happens…
I’ve recently subscribed to a “TV” streaming service (it has a lot of well-known channels like Hallmark, INSP, METV, etc) and have found a channel that shows old Star Trek episodes (TOS is The Original Series for you non-Trekkers out there!). Of course, as you’d expect from a show from nearly 60 years ago, the…
First Wednesday again – time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group post! March 1 question – Have you ever read a line in novel or a clever plot twist that caused you to have author envy? I have author envy all the time! Sometimes I have to stop and reread a line or two just…