Deep dives into the indie author life, from messy first drafts to published books.
It’s Robo♥beat’s 10th Birthday!
Today marks 10 years since I started this blog Robo♥beat. It began as a side project to discuss my nerdy interests — especially video games — as I hoped for a writing job in the video game industry. And it worked! I ended up working in the games industry for over seven years. My first…
NaNoWriMo: 5 Tips to Make It to 50,000 Words
Some of you may know that I participate in NaNoWriMo every year — a month-long test of writing endurance. It stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it happens every November. The fun of it is the camaraderie of writing your ass off with thousands of other storytellers around the world, who treat November with…
My Biggest Worldbuilding Inspirations
Like a lot of writers, I draw inspiration from many of my favorite creative works. Since I’m currently writing a science fiction novel, some of my biggest sources of inspiration are other science fiction works — but not always books. Anything with great worldbuilding is a candidate. The smallest detail can spark a new idea. It’s never…
My Treatments for the Hardships of Writing Science Fiction
Writing science fiction is something I never thought I’d do this “early” in my life. There was a time when I imagined it to be the most difficult genre to write, because not only do you have to build an entire world with realistic politics, religions, and cultures — you also have to create technology that…
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