I consider myself a writer now, not because I am starting to publish, but because I care so much about how it’s phrased and whether it’s good enough, which it never is. When I gave my friend Warren, who had extensive writing experience, one of my early short stories,...
While some might insist that science is strictly factual, I think most would agree that speculation links discrete scientific data – facts – resulting in a narrative that becomes modified with additional data and knowledge. Speculation is not factual. In that sense, I...
Recently Ricardo stepped out of Jellyfish Have Eyes looking for tell-tale signs that his troubles with science in the mid- 21st century were sinister developments of earlier times. As he suspected, he found an article in The Washington Post that he believed...
Ricardo’s back and apparently in a talkative mood. I want him to remain at this website for a little while, but he said that there’s a website for Jellyfish Have Eyes (jellyfishhaveeyes.com) where he plans to settle in. That’s his real home. However, he’s happy to...
Writers are both atypical midwives and partial parents to their characters. As atypical midwives, they deliver babies of every age in the form of words. As partial parents, they give a sliver of themselves to each character, selected genes from the author’s...
My science colleagues asked me how I could switch from research to stories – from science to fiction and back again – as if the two activities were so different that the same person couldn’t do them both. My answer was usually, “I don’t know. I just sit at...
