Final drafts, like any marketed product, look polished, straightforward and consistent, but that’s not how they got there. Much is left out of any published book, or any final product for that matter. Final products shine as the tips of the creative process. Readers get little information on what thoughts and agonizing contradictions characters suffer [...]
"Relevance is a malleable term." I had dinner last night with Sophia Lass; bless her sweet nature. Ricardo was lucky to have her as his lawyer in my novel Jellyfish Have Eyes. She begged me not to steal her thunder by divulging the outcome of her efforts. Fair enough. What a ravenous appetite she had, [...]
I consider myself a writer now, not because I am starting to publish, but because I care so much about how it’s phrased and whether it’s good enough, which it never is. When I gave my friend Warren, who had extensive writing experience, one of my early short stories, he urged me to dispense with [...]
While some might insist that science is strictly factual, I think most would agree that speculation links discrete scientific data – facts – resulting in a narrative that becomes modified with additional data and knowledge. Speculation is not factual. In that sense, I view science as partly fact and partly story, and propose that reality [...]
Recently Ricardo stepped out of Jellyfish Have Eyes looking for tell-tale signs that his troubles with science in the mid- 21st century were sinister developments of earlier times. As he suspected, he found an article in The Washington Post that he believed foreshadowed the demise of ivory-towered basic research. I remember that he looked depressed [...]
