Writing Today's Novel Combining Technology by Jamie Cortland
The genre has already been decided upon; the plot has been outlined, the location and whatever needs researched has been done. The era the book takes place in is set, and the character sketch is complete. In the past decade, the world has changed greatly though. In order to write a novel set in the present day I needed to consider crime lab techniques for one, driver-less cars, cloning perhaps, drones, and of course, robots. Since Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz was released in 1939, “Star Wars” and “The Terminator,” robots have been on the horizon. In the Wizard of Oz, ”The heartless Tin Woodsman”, technically a cyborg, wrestled with a common problem faced by all robots, the inability to feel and the desire to combat rust. With my overactive imagination. I have always hoped that robots would remain in ...