tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post1683738553464212096..comments2023-04-28T04:20:05.766-07:00Comments on WRITER on WRITING: Geek StuffVirtual Strangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01040333093180694172noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post-59102629471550888832009-05-16T19:06:00.000-07:002009-05-16T19:06:00.000-07:00as a loving fan of moorcock and asimov, how could ...as a loving fan of moorcock and asimov, how could i not enjoy this.<br />thank you.buttertuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04405025447868320418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859940184293909528.post-21663006986601135692009-05-16T13:40:00.000-07:002009-05-16T13:40:00.000-07:00Dang! You've gone and made me feel all insecure a...Dang! You've gone and made me feel all insecure about my science fiction project.<br /><br />I know I'm doing a lot of the good things you talk about. But it's the bad things which can be so insidious. And so dauntingly expected of the unpublished, until proven otherwise.<br /><br />Do I really have to show everything, and tell nothing? Even in dialogue with characters who are puzzling it out and referencing their own knowledge?<br /><br />I'll be going back to my text, now, to root out my failings, without mercy, sighing with only the most unavoidable pangs of self-pity.<br /><br />I was a science, history and math geek. I didn't have many friends, either, until I went to college and found some peers. A few high school teachers were not insecure around me. We had some kind of classroom bond, but that was about it. I'm afraid I found the interests of the other geek types too trivial to bother with.<br /><br />I took up reading fiction when I realized I could see people having relationships, from the inside. (How pathetic is that?) The relationships in science fiction ans fantasy tend to be pretty simple and normal and are often healthy. Not as in literature, which I was much later in exploring.frank farrarnoreply@blogger.com