D. Thomas Minton
writes speculative fiction from his home in the mountains of British Columbia.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Alien is Here
The other day, someone asked me where I get ideas for alien worlds. That made me pause as I realized that I don’t write many stories that take place on alien worlds or which even have aliens in them. The … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Science Fiction, Writing
Tagged Fine Art of Surfacing, Hoodoo
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On Being a Writer and Getting Eaten by a Shark
I aspire to make a living one day from writing fiction. It’s something I’ve aspired to for most of my life, but never pursued because I was always told the chances of success were so slim, and therefore it was prudent … Continue reading
Wrong Goals ===> Disappointment & Misery
I recently had an email discussion with a writing colleague about how he was discouraged by the relatively few “returns” on his writing “investment”. That got me thinking about writing goals again—I think a lot about writing goals. In this case, … Continue reading
NPR’s Top 100 SF&F Books
Probably everyone on the planet has seen this already—or at least that’s the way it usually works for me—but in August NPR announced the results of its reader poll to name the Top 100 science fiction and fantasy books. I’m a … Continue reading
No Fish For Me
I submitted a story to an upcoming anthology called Fish, to be published by Dagan Books (the same publisher who is producing IN SITU with my story “Hoodoo”). My story didn’t make the cut, which is always disappointing, but I saw the table of … Continue reading
Pouncing Deadlines and Other Randomness
The end of September came out of nowhere, kind of like a tiger pouncing. Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines—both at the day job and with my writing—and all of them on the last day of the month. People put so much emphasis … Continue reading
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