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Fulcrum Shift

Fulcrum Shift  Will Kalif  New Fantasy Novel   Read more...   Or go to storm the castle

What is Science Fiction and Fantasy?

I looked long and hard into the mirror of Science Fiction and Fantasy. But I really couldn't see anything. Finally I took a hammer to it and smashed it into a thousand pieces. Each shard reflected the world back to me in its own individual way- Every view was different. I hammered each piece some more until there were millions of tiny fragments. "The secret is still there" I thought. So I grabbed my telescope and pointed it at the pieces on the floor and the answer came to me. The pieces were a galaxy of stars, each observing and reflecting the world in its own individual way. This is Science Fiction and Fantasy. Each work looks at the world in its own way. Each is a bright diamond or star and in this collection there is everything, and through them we may be able to grok the nature of "The Everything". Pick a subject and Science Fiction and Fantasy has reflected it: Armageddon, religion, philosophy, society, technology, human nature, time travel, invisibility, war, love, nature, play, work, culture, space travel, and alternate histories- just to name a few.

So strap on your jet pack or your two-handed sword (both if you so prefer) and get ready for an adventure in words.
         I Will be your guide
                           - Will Kalif

Want to write your own novel but can't get started? Here is Will's sure-fire, four-step, guaranteed method that will get you writing!

Step 1: Turn off the television!

How much Tube do you watch every day? How much every week?
What do you really get out of it? turn it off! Better yet give it away. I'm serious. Me I am pretty lucky. All the buttons on my television are broken and I can't find the remote. So my TV is stuck on channel 3 which means
the only thing I can do is use the VCR. For a while I could use the VCR to change channels but I lost the remote for this too so the only thing I can do is pop in a tape and press play. I watch one or two movies a week. I am definitely not missing anything- my gain Now I have the time to write and so
will you. Maybe you will even read a little more.

Step 2: Buy a spiral bound notebook.

I hear it all the time: "I can't use a computer well. I can't spell. I don't have the things I need to write.
What kind of software should I get? Well I got something for you. You only need a notebook and what's in
step 3. . .

Step 3: Buy a pen or pencil

What have we invested so far? Five bucks? Don't have the five bucks? Sell your TV. (Two birds with one stone.)

Step 4: Sit down somewhere and write.

That's it. Just write. Don't let your mind psych you out. Don't even give a second thought to all that stuff about dialogue, setting, characterizations, plot lines and the like. It doesn't have to be great. It doesn't even have to be good. That will come later. It is just like exercise. The more you do, the better
you get. You will improve. But only if you write.

Hey listen, sit down and write the first sentence and watch it grow into a first paragraph and then into a first page and a first chapter. Oh and after you write that first sentence send it to me.
I would love to read it!
send Will e-mail

There's a lot of broken stuff in my world and a broken gas stove is what motivated me to
finally start writing my first novel. Read the story here.

If you have read this essay and the essay about the gas stove then you know that there is a
lot of broken crap in my life. If your life is surrounded by low quality crap then you definitely want
to read this book. It is a masterpiece. It is all about the meaning of quality in life and in the things
in your life. It is written and reads like a fiction novel. You will definitely love it. It is considered a classic
and has been a best seller for a long time.

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