Put the Sci in your Fi — Kill the Character, Cure the Disease…Or Don’t

Find out ways your immune sci-fi character can stop a plague without becoming a sacrificial lamb.

Put the Sci in your Fi — Getting Personal: The Realities of Life in STEM

Hello everyone, welcome to another entry of "Put the Sci in your Fi"! For this month's post, instead of talking about superpowered animals or lab equipment, I thought I'd talk about the people who do the work with that equipment—the scientists. Recently, I came across this question on Quora: "What are the harsh realities about...

Put the Sci in your Fi – Real Life Superpowers—The Naked Mole Rat

Find inspiration for your Sci-fi character's superpowers from amazing, real life animals

Put the Sci in your Fi – Real Life Superpowers—Tardigrades: Just Add Water

Tardigrades can survive anything—can your Sci-Fi character?

Put the Sci in your Fi – Beakers, Bunsen Burners and Budget Cuts (Part 1)

First of all, thank you to fellow sci-fi writer K.S. Watts for the title! And now, on to post no. 2 for putting the 'sci' in your 'fi', part 1 of the mini-series, Beakers, Bunsen Burners and Budget Cuts! If you've watched any sci-fi movie, you're probably familiar with the following setting: Why do labs always look...

Why write?

Hey guys! A bit of a break after the holidays, but I'm back now. I thought I'd start off the new year with a new topic: writing. This past year (maybe more like 1.5-2 by now), I've picked up another creative hobby—story writing. Now, this wasn't something like music. I hadn't been writing my whole...