Roxannebarbour
A blog to promote my novels, and post quotations, and articles on science, mathematics, space.
MY BLOGS
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Roxanne Barbour, Author
http://roxannebarbour.wordpress.com/
A blog to promote my novels, and also post quotations, articles about science, mathematics, space.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 147 )
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SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #8 – A Way Between
SciFaiku ReviewSciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #7 – Black Holes
SciFaiku ReviewSciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
August Contest!
August ContestDuring the month of August, read the preview for “An Alien Collective” on Amazon (www.amazon.com/dp/B0087U1NN8) and answer the following... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2012 CREATIVITY -
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #6 – The Guardian of Forever
SciFaiku ReviewSciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – August 2, 2012
I write in a confessional way, because to me it’s so exciting and fun. There’s nothing funnier on earth than our humanness and our monkeyness. Read more
Posted on 03 August 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
A Way About (eBook) – Free on Smashwords
Free (for a short time) on Smashwords:www.smashwords.com/books/view/206025Use coupon code: BQ67EColonel Esseline Robinson, the Planetary Police Chief of... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2012 CREATIVITY -
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #5 – Alone
SciFaiku ReviewSciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – July 31, 2012
We, and I think I’m speaking for many writers, don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is to write dutifully and day... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #4 – Hunting Aliens
SciFaiku ReviewSciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #3 – An Alien Sun
SciFaiku ReviewSciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – July 27, 2012
I threw the thesaurus out years ago. I found that every time you look up a word, if you want some word and you can think of an approximately close synonym for i... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #2 – Spacial Anomaly
SciFaiku ReviewSciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
SciFaiku Review: SciFaiku #1 – Sunspots
SciFaiku ReviewSciFaiku (Science Fiction haiku) is a form of poetry inspired by Japanese Haiku.SciFaiku poems are short, minimalistic, poems about science and... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – July 25, 2012
I make a very tight outline of everything I write before I write it. … By writing an outline you really are writing in a way, because you’re creating the... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Asteroid Flies By Earth Today: How to Watch Online
This graphic plots the orbit of the near-Earth asteroid 2002 AM31 through the solar system. The city-block size asteroid will fly by Earth July 22, coming withi... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2012 SCIENCE -
Quotation – July 22, 2012
The most important thing is you can’t write what you wouldn’t read for pleasure. It’s a mistake to analyze the market thinking you can write whatever is hot. Read more
Posted on 22 July 2012 CREATIVITY -
Boldly Go: Space Shuttle Enterprise Opens to Public at NYC Museum
As astronauts and officials looked on, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum president Susan Marenoff-Zausner took part in a... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2012 SCIENCE -
Aurora Over Antarctica
Dazzling Aurora Appears Over Antarctic Station In a July 18 photograph, an aurora dances over Concordia Station in East Antarctica. CREDIT: ESA/A. Kumar & E... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2012 SCIENCE -
Quotation – July 21, 2012
The conclusion to be drawn is that I am happiest writing in small rooms. They make me feel comfortable and secure. And it took me years to figure out that I nee... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE -
Quotation – July 20, 2012
Writers shouldn’t fall in love with characters so much that they lose sight of what they’re trying to accomplish. The idea is to write a whole story, a whole... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2012 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE