Serial Distrations has some comments about Dragoncon, and detail some of the suggestions for writers from the “How to write Good Fiction” panel…. For example:
- Characters are the emotional heart of the story. Without them, the reader won’t care about what’s going on.
- It is also important to know your audience…if you fall too heavy into characterization and forget to have the character actually dosomething, you may alienate your reader.
- Two-dimensional/flat characters are nothing new…it’s poor literature, but not a new phenomenon. Even the ones that are somehow popular.
Remember Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of science-fiction is crap…and if you extrapolate that, 90% of everything is crap.