Friday, 3 August 2012

Confessions of a Museum Bunny-- At SFWA

My guest blog is up at the Science Fiction Writers of America site. It's all about how I love museums and how they inspire my writing.

It was a lot of fun to write. I ought to do more non-fiction. Thinking. . . thinking . . .

Any ideas gratefully received.

What about you guys? Does anyone write non-fiction? (not counting your own blogs, I already read those) Do post the links if you do, I'd like to check them out.

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18 comments:

  1. Melissa Embry3 August 2012 at 06:08

    Nice post. There's really nothing like seeing things directly, in some cases, even being able to get hands on.

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    1. Deborah Walker3 August 2012 at 06:51

      Oh yes. I got my hands on a dinosaur bone the other day. Very cool.

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  2. Mark K3 August 2012 at 06:29

    I wouldn't know where to begin. So kudos to you, Deborah :)

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    1. Deborah Walker3 August 2012 at 06:52

      Hey mark, I was just going to pop over to your blog. Rats, now it looks like I'm doing a tit-for-tat.

      You should do something on writing and gaming. There's bound to be a lot of scope there.

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  3. Christine Rains3 August 2012 at 17:33

    Great post! I never thought to ask a Curator for a tour. That would be so cool. I don't write non-fiction, but I like to indulge in reading it now and then. I recently read Bill Bryson's newest book that has fun details about the history of domestic life. It's fascinating!

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    1. Deborah Walker4 August 2012 at 00:15

      My Mum's a great fan of Bill Bryson. He's so witty.

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  4. Golden Eagle3 August 2012 at 17:59

    That was a really interesting article. Museums are fascinating places.

    I did non-fiction for my website (http://www.eagledirectory.org/) but that's basically all that I've done, other than school stuff.

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    1. Deborah Walker4 August 2012 at 00:16

      I loved your eagle directory, Golden. I hope it's getting lots of hits.

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  5. Simon Kewin4 August 2012 at 07:31

    Fascinating article, Deborah. I don't write much non-fiction, but I am intrigued by writing fiction that appears to be non-fiction. Made up travelogues, for example. I think there's a lot of scope there.

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  6. Cate Gardner5 August 2012 at 09:14

    Interesting article, Deborah. I'd love to see the Tree of Life.

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    1. Deborah Walker4 October 2012 at 10:19

      Yes, it's amazing. Also my ten year old son just loved the display of machetes in the gallery.

      Boys ....

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  7. Patsy5 August 2012 at 13:33

    I have written a bit of non fiction, but I found it really frustrating having to edit out a lot of the good stuff because I'd made it up so I stick with fiction now.

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  8. Samuel Mae7 August 2012 at 13:18

    Very nice article, Debs (as usual, i am late to the commenting). :-)

    One of my dream trip ideas is doing a museum crawl across North America and Europe. One of these days... or perhaps i might have to shorten the goal a bit and just pick a city, like London, and hit all its museums. I better start saving up, then!

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  9. Unknown9 August 2012 at 10:04

    Um, nope, don't do any non-fiction writing!
    Off to read your guest post now :)

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