Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories. . . Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.