Just Don’t

“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”

–Theodore Sturgeon

I was poking around the many How-To-Write blogs online a few days ago, and I came across one that made me stare in utter disbelief. It was a worksheets-and-examples site – one of those that begins by asserting that all writers need to figure out their entire novel in advance according to their part...