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The Future Has Customer Support: How to Use Helpdesks as Plot Engines  New!

For a long time, stories treated customer support as background noise. A phone call that never gets answered. A faceless system designed to frustrate. Something characters complain about and move past. But that’s changing. As our lives become more mediated by systems, tickets, queues, and automated...

When Homage Becomes Hijack: The Trouble With Fan Fiction New!

People do not pour hours into borrowed worlds because they are bored. They do it because a story hit them emotionally and they weren't ready leave just yet. They connected to those characters in a way that felt personal, and they wanted more time with...

The Hero We Keep Rewriting New!

In American popular fiction, the Navy SEAL has become a near reflex. When a novelist needs a figure of courage, competence, and moral certainty, the former special operator often steps onto the page with quiet authority and a watchful gaze. The choice feels safe because...

Age Appropriateness of Children’s Books New!

When people ask whether a book is right for a child, what they’re usually asking is whether that book fits the child they have in front of them. That’s a fair concern. Childhood is not one long stretch of sameness. A kindergartener and a fifth...

How to Create Sci-Fi Religions Without Copy-Pasting Earth Religions  New!

Science fiction loves religion, but it often treats it lazily. A space pope here, a renamed Bible there, maybe a futuristic church with glowing symbols and alien robes. The result feels familiar, but not in a good way. It feels borrowed. If you want your sci-fi...

Writing Sci-Fi With ONLY 3 Technologies (and Making It Feel Massive)  New!

Have you ever read a science fiction story that felt enormous, even though it only introduced a handful of futuristic ideas? No endless gadgets. No ten-page explanations of how things work. And yet, the world felt alive, deep, and real. That’s not an accident. Some of the...

Your Futuristic City Needs Trash: Writing Waste, Sewage & Recycling in Space New!

Have you ever noticed how futuristic cities are always spotless? They have towering skyscrapers, glowing transport lines, floating billboards, and streets that look freshly polished at all times. No trash bags piled in corners. No clogged drains. No signs that anyone ever flushed a toilet. It looks...

The 3 Laws of Writing Scientific Nonsense That Feels Real  New!

Have you ever read a story with impossible science and thought, “This makes no sense… but somehow I believe it”? That’s not an accident. That’s good writing. From time travel paradoxes to magic systems disguised as physics, some of the most beloved stories are built on...

Narrating From A Black Hole: Using Unusual Perspectives To Unlock Fresh Storytelling New!

What happens when the narrator isn’t human, isn’t alive, or doesn’t even exist in any traditional sense? Most stories are told by someone we recognize. A person. A voice with eyes, hands, memories, and a place in the world. But some of the most striking...

5 Great Benefits of Attending a Writer’s Conference New!

If you’re an author or even an aspiring author, attending a writer’s conference can be a great step in your journey. I attended my first writer’s conference back in 2017. The decision to go seemed somewhat risky since I had not been to Philadelphia before,...