Will we lose the ability to write one day?

Pre-programmed software can do all the writing for us. Not yet as efficiently as humans, but we’ll get there eventually.

Do stories age with time?

Stories come with a precise time and date tag on them. Yes, they can be timeless, as they are creative products. They are like fashion in some way because we write them at a certain moment in our personal history and the history of the world around us. That anchor in time and space gives them a certain validity.

The human brain between evolution and science-fiction 1- Science for science-fiction

Visit me at my new site https://nadiasharpauthor.com/ Introduction I do a lot of research for my writing and because some topics fascinate me. I have a basis in science through formal education. Most of it got a little rusty over time, but it provides a decent foundation that helps me grasp scientific concepts. A science-fiction […]

The many benefits of writing and reading dystopia

Visit me at my new site https://nadiasharpauthor.com/ We face our fears We contemplate our own world We identify problematic spots We learn what happens if we push the limits We see the best and the worst in us We control the future, in fiction We enjoy the thrill, without the risk We say the unthinkable […]

Bleak or bright?

How do dystopias see our future? Visit me at my new site https://nadiasharpauthor.com/ When I started writing science fiction/dystopia, I think it was from a place of resentment against what wasn’t so human in our ways. It was a short story that I started many moons ago. I didn’t plan for it to be dystopian, […]

2018 reflections

Visit me at my new site https://nadiasharpauthor.com/ I started book two of the Inline series (still a working title). I redid the whole thing because of some advice on outlining that caused me kind of ‘writing paralysis’. I couldn’t follow the outline or the world building and it felt like I was doubling my effort, […]

Future of languages in speculative fiction

Visit me at my new site https://nadiasharpauthor.com/ When we write speculative fiction, we presume that people will keep on talking in languages as we do today. Sometimes, the story lies in the near future, so there’s no need to change how the characters talk or even the little cultural connotations embedded within the language, presuming […]

9 reasons why some people hate dystopias

Last week, I was listening to Books and Authors podcast and one of the co-hostesses mentioned 1984 by George Orwell. She was saying that she didn’t like dystopias but that Orwell’s 1984 was read, back in the day, as a literary fiction, which is true. Although the term ‘dystopia’ was coined by John Stuart Mill in 1868, it became vastly used only in the past few decades.

So why people don’t like dystopias?

Inline, my dystopia

Visit me at my new site https://nadiasharpauthor.com/ I love dystopias. I like reading them and love the ones in which the protagonist fights his/her way out of them. Margaret Atwood’s worlds had been my favorite for a long time. Her The year of the flood fascinated me. I rarely read a book twice, but I […]

This blog, writing and life

Visit me at my new site https://nadiasharpauthor.com/ I have had blogging on my mind ever since I had my first desktop, back in the day. Throughout the years, I have been an active blog reader on and off. My major blogging window now is WordPress. I had tried a couple of times to have a […]