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Sci-Fi vs Science Fiction: Potato potato Tomato tomato.
(Original published 2012)
I was going to ramble on about Science Fiction vs Fantasy but I found out quickly that there's a whole bit of controversy just within the smaller community itself. Perhaps I have been isolated from reality too long but I honestly did not put much stock in the trouble with Sci-Fi. I also tend not to listen to the wise words of Mr. E...
I'll post here something I posted on a forum under one of my few screen names.
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Funny thing;
I've only been reading SF for 55 years now. And never really ran into this prejudice until recently. It's a rather ironic prejudice.
Back in the early 50 most Science Fiction as it was called would today apparently be considered Sci-Fi by some of
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It's like a Zen moment...
(Original published 2012)
When a writer realizes they don't really want to rewrite every other author's work. That second we realize that rewriting other peoples novels is not a viable profession, that we really don't have that much time on our hands.
Unless we are ghostwriters.
As a writer, I've fallen victim to at least the passing thought that I could write something better. That the author chose the wrong style. That this piece of crap is annoy the daylights out of me and I can't continue it. I should make it better.
So when someone approaches my work from that level I realize that it's something that will happen. I try to step back and try to to absorb the parts of the critique that have been helpful. After all, if they sent you any sort of note that means they care enough to say something.
When we publish something we
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