Tuesday Tips: Read What You Write

I write Science Fiction because it is my favorite kind of book to read. I have read a thousand Scifi novels over the decades.

(I would not dream of writing historic fiction about France in 1276.)

Even take that a bit farther down into sub genres. Read the sub genres that you want to write. Here are a few sub genres from Scifi I like and may write in the future:

• Hard Science Fiction
• Space Opera
• Space Western
• Time Travel
• First Contact
• Comic Science Fiction
• Steampunk
• Alternate History
• Apocalyptic, Post-Apocalyptic
• Cyberpunk
• Military Science Fiction
• Superhuman
• Soft or Sociological Science Fiction
• Near-future science Fiction
• Science Fantasy or Future Fantasy

--If you want to write romance, read it. Read westerns if you want to write them. Young Adult, Murder mysteries, or Buddy comedies. We'll talk about crossing genres in another post!