In the end, honesty serves all of us well, right? Full disclosure: It’s a wild, wacky world when it comes to a writer’s life, especially their writing routine. No matter how much you’ve drafted or how long you’ve been going gangbusters at trying to tame the writing game, sometimes it seems like you’re always starting things over.
I’ve written for newspapers, magazines, television, websites, radio and podcasts. I’ve written books. I even wrote a few songs. No matter what you’re creating, it all balances out with a devoted creation ethic and the dedicated diligence in producing your work. And, in the end, it’s a simple equation - you come up with an idea, you flesh it out, you publish - or someone else does - and patiently await the response, and if you’re lucky, encouraging solid, constructive feedback follows.
And yet sometimes it doesn’t go well.
Occasionally, stuff I’ve written - and most frustrating, the ones I’m really proud of producing - just sort of lay there. Not often, but yeah, it does happen. I’ll say mostly, happily, my content is usually well received by readers, but we all can be our own worst critic. Certainly the ego and perfectionist side of me wants each and every post to be wildly popular. Thankfully, more than a few do become popular. Now I want to share the best of the best, so far, according to you, my Substack audience.
Does Neelix Secretly Food Poison Voyager's Crew?
Neelix's Gruesome Galley - An Experiment In Food Safety
Horror Express - Board The Train For A Sci-Fi Horror Ride Like No Other
Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee Star In A Powerful Sci-Fi Horror Classic From Spain
Before He Created Star Trek Gene Roddenberry Was An L.A. Police Officer
Did You Know Gene Roddenberry, A Former L.A. Cop, Created Star Trek?
Was 'City On The Edge Of Forever', Star Trek’s Most Famous Episode, 'Inspired' By The Twilight Zone?
Before Captain Kirk & Edith Keeler There Was Paul Driscoll & Abigail Sloan of Twilight Zone's “No Time Like The Past”
Sci-Fi Script Writing Advice From A Hollywood Screenwriter
Sci-Fi Writing Is Fun, Even Exciting, But Not Always Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
The Sexiest Beastial Behemoths In Sci-Fi & Comics
They're Big, Bad, Beastial And All Around Oddly Sexy
Vulcan Police Force - Star Trek's Mister Spock Was Inspired By LAPD Cop
Police Chief William Parker Inspired Gene Roddenberry To Create His Most Famous Alien, Leonard Nimoy's Spock
RoboCop - Reassessing A Cyborg Police Officer Within A Modern Politically Charged Landscape
Is RoboCop Obsolete In Our New Citizen Minded Policing Society?
Victor Buono - A Hollywood Actor Profile
Victor Buono Most Famously Played The Larger Than Life King Tut on Batman
Star Trek Icons: The Russian Revolution of Pavel Chekov
Ensign Chekov Dazzles The Blissfully Uninformed As An Expert In Russian History