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I'll echo what others have said in that familiar emotions are what enable readers to identify with your characters. But on the other hand, there is a lot to be accomplished with that makes such characters different from humans. I haven't thought about what a pig or caterpillar culture would be...

I don't know. I specifically don't understand Twitter dynamics, but I'm there anyway. Personal issues left me away from Twitter for a few months, leaving only my automated tweets, which are pretty much all promotional. I expected to lose a significant number of followers, but instead, over...

Exactly! It's something of a pet peeve of mine to go explaining how everything works unless it's part of the story that one person is explaining or introducing technology to another. We don't describe the workings of an internal combustion engine every time someone hops in his car; we just take...

Exactly! I can only think of one time when I changed a character's name, and that was only because I'd come to the conclusion that I had it wrong in the first place. But to the point of the thread, I'm a confirmed Scrivener user, and it's organized perfectly for keeping track of research and...

As an American, don't you dare! One of the cool things about reading is being able to sample different cultures. We need all those perspectives.

There are times this has annoyed me to the marrow. An archetypal example is the Harper Dearing arc in NCIS. Gibbs and his team do well, themselves stretching the viewers' credibility at times, but now comes along a disgruntled parent who has super powers. He can magically plant sophisticated...

Haha! I've been pretty much rubbish at Chrons lately. www.duanevore.com

When I find a plot hole and hope to fix it without rewriting the entire novel. There is usually a way, but sometimes it takes a while to present itself. We should all know that just patching it never works.

Why does that not surprise me? :) I think my big strength is coming up with wild ideas. Some of them even make me cringe.

Revising The White Shamitz, the third in my sci-fi series. Starting to flesh out two more unrelated sci-fi novels that have been languishing. Trying to convince myself to seriously revise Nemesis, which I wanted to get out this year but now almost certainly won't make.

It's extraordinary that I agree with someone on everything, but you nailed it.

Alas! Just proofing my own stuff, and trying to fit in "To Kill a Mockingbird" again.

Say what? That'll last about a week.

I do images in EPUB using Sigil, as I can get the images exactly where I want them that way. But you have to be able to edit HTML and know something about EPUB format. I feel it's work the learning for self publishers.

Almost finished with A Hierarchy of Gods. Hope to release it around the end of the month. Also working on the next in the series, The White Shamitz. I'd planned on releasing Nemesis next, but this one is closer to being finished than I remembered, so I may bump it up a notch. Wrote about...

Today I was working on Part 3 of my Introduction to the Trarsani language. If you're interested in alien grammar and alphabets, you can start here.

"So let’s add these things together – from David, the lack of experimentation in form; from Nina, the lack of contemporary commentary; and from myself, the failure to examine what science fiction actually does and why it does it… Surely there’s something in among that lot worth exploring?" I...

I have no more suggestions of images other than those above, but I do have a couple of thoughts. My advanced races adopt one of two strategies, or a combination of them: (1) huge monolithic structures surrounded by hundreds of miles of pristine wilderness (Titrinka on Kyatton, Dosh Kravek on...

Mosaicx is right; it is entirely possible for a bullet fired through the forehead to pass between the hemispheres and cause relatively little damage other than an unplanned lobotomy. People who think to kill themselves by holding a gun to their temple often survive, but blind themselves by...

When pondering this thread of Brian's (http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/548173-your-top-5-sff-books.html) it dawned on me that there are several books that, while I can't think of them as favorites, nevertheless stick with me. Or they at least have some idea that sticks with me. Here are...