I write science fiction, and software. Sometimes one turns into the other.
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A question was posted on the stellar StackOverflow site a while back, asking if there was any future for “old” developers.
Here is my answer, courtesy of the ingenious Stack2Blog site, slightly edited and reformatted:
I resemble that remark.
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I was watching a talk by Martin Fowler and Neal Ford (the introduction is in French, but the talk is in English) and Neal remarked that in many projects, requirements are unstable. That sparked a realization…
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If you search for “get application version in .NET” or similar, a lot of answers come back telling you to call System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() – but this gives you the assembly containing the code that is currently running, which may or may not be the application.
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A good friend and editor gave me a copy of the Elements of Fiction Writing series. I’m certain it was just a friendly gesture, and not a critique. Well, mostly certain.
Anyway, I’m finally getting around to reading it, and it is extremely helpful.
It remains to be seen if the tips and techniques will improve my fiction writing, as I have had no time to apply them – but I expect that they will.