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THE LAST ASTRONAUT
Vehicle Gallery: Orion VII
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Vehicle Gallery: KSpace Wanderer
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Vehicle Gallery: Orion VI Mars Express
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Vehicle Gallery: X-37d Drone Spaceplane
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Vehicle Gallery: Space Launch System
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Negative Space in Prose
One of the most powerful tools that graphic designers and visual artists use is the deployment of negative space. Sometimes called "white space", it's the use of empty space in the layout of, say, a magazine page or a painting--an area with no graphic elements at all. Negative space is incredibly good at building emphasis. …
There Are No Rules
There's been a lot of pushback lately--I mostly see it on Twitter--from authors who say writing advice focuses way too much on plot and character, on spare, lean, energetic story-telling rather than the craft of writing: the lyrical, the quiet, the rhythmic. And I'm certainly guilty of that here. My writing advice on this blog …
Your First Publication: Don’t Forget to Enjoy It
In the last week I met two people who had just published their first book. I congratulated them, but I could see the look in their eyes. One I knew all too well. Days after I published my first novel, Monster Island, I was on the floor of my apartment, so wracked with anxiety and …
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