FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Do you ever write when you’re out and about? On a laptop or tablet at a coffee shop? On your phone in line at the post office? If so, where do you do it? How do you do it – any guidelines? And what app and device do you use? Do you find it productive? Join the chat
One of the most difficult things for me as a sci fi author is figuring out what I think the future will look like. Not just socially – that’s often the fun part, coming up with new social constructs to hang my story on. But also physically. What will the cities look like? What will gadgets look like? How will they work? How ill we eat? Communicate? Have sex? These can be fun things to figure out too, but they can also be writing minefields. Take, for example, computers. 50 years ago, they existed only as huge, room-sized things that … Read more
