Articles Tagged with writing

Inscribed by hand (I)

Published on April 28, 2020April 29, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Is handwriting necessary?

Handwritten English is much less important than it was.  But handwriting is not.

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Superficial writing

Published on March 10, 2020March 9, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Not enough research

Some writers don’t look deeply enough into the background.

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Old science fiction

Published on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The trouble with predictions

It didn’t happen that way, but we enjoy the stories in spite of that.

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Modern human adaptations

Published on June 18, 2019June 17, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Changes in the design

The world changes.  Do we?

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Beginning with a question mark

Published on March 12, 2019March 13, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The written and the spoken word

We ask a question: how do you ask a question?

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Destroying the world (almost)

Published on February 19, 2019February 17, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Science to serve the plot

We comment on a science-fiction novel in progress.

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Professional writing

Published on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

and professional reading

Some writing is not what we’d expect.

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Putting pen to paper (III)

Published on December 25, 2018December 24, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Too easy

Why do some easy things never actually get done?

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Putting pen to paper (II)

Published on October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The novelists’ instrument

We examine an incident in which new technology did not change literary genres.

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Putting pen to paper

Published on October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Writing changes, and doesn’t

We examine several literary genres.

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