Writing Unleashed with Laura M. Harkins

News spbkchat.blogspot.com Sci-Fi Reacquainting Us With Our Own Sexuality Science fiction authors employ humans characters as well as aliens and intelligent machines in their stories. Kyle Munkittrick discusses the wide acceptance of interracial and interspecies love and sexual relationships found in science fiction and how it will break down the sexual barriers in our own lives in the future. Do you believe fiction will break down the sexual barriers in our world?     flickr.com Neil Gaiman Called a Thief by Congressman Republican Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Matt Dean, urged by his mother, apologized to Neil Gaiman for name-calling . Gaiman received $45,000 for a speaking engagement. Dean felt the payment of $45,000 to Gaiman for a speaking engagement was exorbitant and labeled him a thief. Do you think $45,000 is an excessive amount to pay a superstar author for a speaking engagement? weeklyworldnews.com Mermaids Splashing Onto the ...

fanpop.com When you write you want to grab and hold your reader’s attention.  How can you accomplish this?  Maybe add a romance.    Just about every novel contains a love story.  Make the romance between two teenagers and you might be on to something.      The unknown territory and innocence of young love creates a feeling empathized by all readers.   Intensify the attraction by adding complications of unrequited love and life or death situations.   Throw in a few supernatural beings (i.e., vampires, shape-shifters and human/vampire hybrids) for a delicious twist and you have Stephanie Meyer’s best-selling  Breaking Dawn , the fourth and last novel of the YA series, Twilight . Are we really suckers for love?   No.   Well, maybe.   But you can attribute the novel’s bewitching power to conflict .   The drama provides the driving force.   As a reader you find yourself unable to stop reading in hopes o...