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Since this is the only reply I've received I'm pretty sure I'm not welcome. Thanks anyway. Looks like we got a dramatic one over here, folks. Get out the cage and prep the bees. (Also, wotf006!) Interesting choice, refuting my feeling of not being welcome by validating it. I came here believing I c...

storysinger wrote:Welcome to the forum BLAlley. You are here so it is as it should be.

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Since this is the only reply I've received I'm pretty sure I'm not welcome. Thanks anyway.

Can you please delete my profile?

I joined a while back and just found this hidden in "Contest". Here I am, but I don't think I belong here.

I never tried to come up with an idea. I wrote every story based on an idea which came to me in one form or another. My books were inspired by: Twin Arrows Trading Post. Watching Baseball on TV. A dream. A paper by Professor Thomas J Weiler of Vanderbilt Physics Department A flash fiction contest pr...

I never bothered. As they say, agents and publishers only become interested the moment you no longer need them.

Happily! Arosil - A Science Fiction Series https://static.wixstatic.com/media/402253_3c5ebe1d37b6402ebb2661e7b3626f04~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_300,h_152,al_c,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/402253_3c5ebe1d37b6402ebb2661e7b3626f04~mv2.png https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IPE8DS8 The Diamond - A Ghost Story https://static.wi...

I included expanded versions of two previous short stories in my most recent book.

I just deleted my DA account. Wa-whaaaaa

The Freezer and Immortal by David Kersten.
Can I include my own? I didn't see any rules about that.

Awww. I wanted to write SciFi. :)

If you're focusing on marketability rather then creativity I'm automatically not interested. You should be writing because you have an idea, not because you want to be the next Stephen King or JK Rowling.

I recently discovered two gems by Robert L Forward, Dragon's Egg and Starquake. As a lifelong SciFi fan I'm ashamed to admit I hadn't read them sooner.

I'm not a fan of how-to books, particularly for writing. They tend to be more self-congratulatory and less helpful, and writing, like most skills, is learned by doing. Yes, take a class to learn the mechanics of writing, but beyond that you're far better off reading fiction, focusing on your chosen ...

I went to both extremes, having no aliens in one book with barely a mention of them, then having only aliens in another book. All within the same series.