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How To Have Ideas: Six Steps To Your Personal ‘Eureka’ Moment

Lynn Reynolds · May 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment

How To Have Ideas: Six Steps To Your Personal ‘Eureka’ Moment

The question of how to have ideas isn’t just for people working in explicitly creative roles: if you’ve got a job, any job, sooner or later someone will expect you to think stuff up. When I was at school doing my ‘A’ levels, I worked as a hospital cleaner. My manager was always asking me […]

Filed Under: Creativity Tagged With: Excel, freewriting, Getting Started, Ideas, Isaac Asimov, John Ingledew, Mind Maps, Practicalities of Writing, Scapple, Scrivener, Wired Magazine, Writing inspiration, Writing Process

Why Read Science Fiction?

Lynn Reynolds · March 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Why Read Science Fiction?

Why read science fiction? Perhaps surprisingly, it’s not about science. Given that so many of us have been reading science fiction for years, you’d think the answer to this question would be obvious, wouldn’t you? Especially as my new year resolution for 2017 is to read more contemporary sci-fi. It’d seem strange if I didn’t […]

Filed Under: Reading Tagged With: Cixin Liu, HG Wells, I, I Robot, Isaac Asimov, Johanna Sinisalo, John Wyndham, Liu Cixin, Naomi Alderman, Robot, science fiction, The Core of the Sun, The Day of the Triffids, The Power, The Three-Body Problem, War of the Worlds

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