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Proven tips to write fiction blog

Proven tips to write fiction blog

Career
Writing a fiction blog is fun and rewarding. Having an active reader base can help motivate you to keep writing and can even help you transform your fiction into cash. Writing a good fiction blog, however, takes planning and careful design. Plan Ahead for Your Blog Plan out your blog before you advertise it. Choose your characters and outline the plot. Decide how often you’re going to post, and be realistic. Aiming for once or twice a week is usually a good idea, but quality is more important than quantity. Write several posts before you publish any of them, so that you’re always a little ahead in case you can’t write for a week or two. Design Your Fiction Blog Choose a blogging website and design your blog. There are many free blogging websites, such as Blogspot and Liv...
Bad science in sci-fi movies

Bad science in sci-fi movies

Movies
The adventures of Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise defined a new level of science fiction fandom in the late sixties. The image of Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star forever changed the impact and scope of blockbuster moviemaking. Audiences ate it all up without even batting an eye at the believability of the scientific concepts on display, but the science in such sci-fi favourites is often questionable at best. Sounds in Outer Space The dramatic screeching of TIE fighters swooping across the screen to the strains of John Williams’ Imperial March in The Empire Strikes Back is in an unforgettable part of science fiction history. So are the whooshing sounds of the Enterprise going to warp speed in the Star Trek movies. Now imagine the same images with no so...