Tag: beyond-the-bridge
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Beyond The Bridge – Issue #8
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Finding Flow and Watching the Story Go Every writer knows the feeling when the words suddenly start moving faster than your fingers. You stop thinking about the next sentence because it is already there. The scene begins to unfold on its own. Characters start speaking before you even plan what they will say. That is…
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Beyond The Bridge – Issue #7
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When Ideas Build Themselves In Writing Some science fiction ideas hit you once and never leave. One of those, for me, comes from the Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor. The concept is simple on the surface: use automated factories to build more factories, which then build ships, probes, and infrastructure faster than any human…
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Beyond The Bridge – Issue #6
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A Point of View on Point of View in Writing Writing in first person is supposed to be simple. You live inside one mind, one voice, one version of the truth. It’s less complicated, less convoluted, there are less details about the ancillary characters states of mind to worry about… right? Nope. When I started…