After years of sharing writing advice, I'm making the leap every writer dreams of: becoming the author I've always wanted to be. This October, Myers Fiction launches with original stories, starting with an eco-thriller that'll make you question what lurks in the shadows of our changing world.
Science fiction and fantasy require an attention to detail and coherence that can't be found in first drafts. While you can create better and better first drafts as your experience grows, you will still need to depend on your editing and revision skills to help your story reach its full potential.
Consistency is the invisible thread that weaves believability into the fabric of your fictional world. Whether you're crafting alien technologies or arcane magics, establish clear rules and stick to them. Your readers will suspend disbelief when they trust the logic of your world—even if that logic defies our reality.
Research is the backbone of effective world-building in science fiction and fantasy. It grounds stories in facts, lends authenticity, and provides credibility to speculative worlds. Whether hard or soft, sci-fi or fantasy, the time we put into research as writers pays direct dividends into our books and reader satisfaction.
Science fiction and fantasy offer a rich environment to explore complex ideas that provoke thought and conversation between readers. Theme is defined as a subject or topic in a work of art, in your case, your book. There's a reason it's called the craft of writing.
Kenneth W. Myers 