R C Beckett 
Video to Demonstrate Technique The purpose here is to make a very basic but engaging image by using a minimum of graphic tools. The header image for this post is complicated–in fact much more than necessary for the majority of posts that writers need. Spend time writing, not making images! What follows is the same … Read more
At a glance, it used to be easy to identify what a character was thinking, hearing, seeing, or saying BECAUSE the author would write: he thought, she heard, he saw or she said… The current trend is to remove such markers or filters to reduce the “narrative distance” between the character and the author. This … Read more
I used Bibisco in November 2021 for NaNoWriMo to write 40,000 words as the start of a novel. The description was enticing and a several writers at NaNo gave it glowing recommendations. It was fun to use. The problems I had came later when I began to think about self publishing. PROS Elicits a list … Read more
There are no definite rules for writing dialogue. But, there are suggestions: Try to make the dialogue progress logically. If one character asks a question, make sure the other character answers it. If you do a good job with dialogue, the reader can (almost) tell who is talking without a tag — that’s a real … Read more
R. C. Beckett contributed A Christmas Visit to this anthology released in December 2021. The short book is intended to provide a little scifi uplift for the holidays.
One of R. C. Beckett’s short stories, Toil of Robots, is included in the Second Law anthology of science fiction short stories. In the not so distant future, robots take over the world. But, they made a mistake.
Positives and Pitfalls for SciFi Writers The definition of flash fiction is a story of 1000 words or less. It is not a genre and it is not a poem. It is an art form of condensation and clarity, motion and surprise. It can be profound, often jarring and sometimes funny. The best science fiction … Read more
Most writers are familiar with word processors such as LibreOffice, Atlantis or Microsoft Word. Each has many settings to make the text of a book look good. If the appearance is good enough, then simply export the file as an EPUB file and you are done. But, good enough is often not. That’s when the … Read more
Over the past decade, it has become obvious to everyone that creating and reading fiction will be done through the e-book. Although Amazon (Kindle Digital Publishing) is the gorilla in the e-book world, it is still basically an e-book publisher. Amazon keeps that position because it provides end-to-end services from taking a digital book file … Read more
The third person omniscient point of view is the most open and flexible POV available to writers. As the name implies, an omniscient narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing. — David Mamet Once a writer decides to use a third person point of view (POV) the next question is: what is the SCOPE of that view? … Read more