Tag Archives: writing

Good Sex, Bad Sex and HBO Style Sex

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Cora

While following a link to something else, I came across this neat blogpost from July 2010: Nicola Griffith wonders why good sex in fiction is often considered unrealistic.

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Story trumps science, every time

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Cora

The SF Signal Mind Meld asks several SF writer how important plausible science is for science fiction. The consensus is: Yes, plausible science is somewhat important, but characters, plot and storytelling are more important. This shouldn’t come as a surprise … Continue reading →

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Twin Peaks, Rita nominations, lots of e-book links and democracy at work?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Cora

I’m busy today, so here’s a linkdump. Lots of e-book and indie publishing links as well as some other stuff: Everybody is talking about Barry Eisler and Amanda Hocking,now they talk to each other. Damien Walter briefly touches upon indie … Continue reading →

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A Fire and Some Writing Links

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Cora

Today, my evening was interrupted by this fire or rather the resulting smoke and sirens. The fire is within easy walking distance of my home. I could even see the smoke plume and of course hear the sirens and the … Continue reading →

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Book fair interviews, sex scenes, tragic endings, Tarzan and cultural omnivores – yes, it’s another linkdump

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Cora

Today is another linkdump day, sorry. It was either that or a rant about the blind techno-optimism of certain SF writers regarding nuclear power, which I would probably delete thirty seconds after posting once I realized that calling some author … Continue reading →

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Awards, Writing and E-Books

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Cora

I’m tired and busy, so here is a linkdump, mostly writing and e-book related: The Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair, one of Germany’s three most important literary awards, has been won by the 28-year-old Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz … Continue reading →

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Deadly car crashes, the neverending death match of genre versus literary fiction, some e-books and some sex

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Cora

It’s that time of the year (or month?) again. The great literary vs. genre fiction death match enters round 316. This time around the initiating event was a BBC program entitled The books we really read, broadcast in honour of … Continue reading →

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Linkdump for a Crappy Weekend

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Cora

Since this weekend has turned out to be so bad, here are some links, mostly writing and language related, to take your mind of the bad stuff for a while: Here is a very informative site, created by a professor … Continue reading →

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Some more on the whole e-book thing

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Cora

Regarding Sunday’s e-book post, now that I’ve mentioned the possibility of putting out some of my stuff in e-book form, I might as well say some more: So first of all, what would you put out? Like I mentioned in … Continue reading →

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Midweek Writing Links

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Cora

I’m working on a longer post, but meanwhile there has been a lot of interesting writing discussion going on the internet. So here are some writing links.

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