BrainStormer Books / Guides for fiction writers
Build worlds
worth writing
about.
Big ideas. Believable details. Stories with somewhere to go. Practical guides for writers of military science fiction, science fiction, and fantasy.
Choose your next frontier
What are you writing?
Start with the world you want to build. Find ideas you can use, questions worth asking, and details that earn their place in the story.
01 / Military SF
Military Science Fiction
Troops with a job to do. Enemies with plans of their own. Build the tactics, command decisions, and logistics that make future warfare convincing.
02 / Science Fiction
Science Fiction
Explore remarkable technology, alien worlds, and the people whose lives they change. Turn a promising what-if into a world full of possibilities.
03 / Fantasy
Fantasy
Give your magic rules, your kingdoms a life beyond the throne room, and your characters a world worth getting into trouble for.
Start with a free ebook
Give your characters a mission.
Give the enemy a vote.
The Military SF Mission Generator gives you 100 missions and complications, plus 20 complete mission packs. Build objectives, enemy reactions, terrain, logistics, and the awkward decisions that keep a story moving.
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Put your imagination to work
A good idea is only the beginning.
Understand the essentials.
Get a handle on the science, systems, and practical details that shape your setting. Choose the depth your story needs.
Follow the consequences.
Ask who benefits, who has a problem, and what changes next. A world comes alive through the people living in it.
Find the story.
Use examples and fresh possibilities to build scenes, choices, and conflicts. Your research should help you write the next chapter.
The writer behind BrainStormer
Experience.
Curiosity.
A healthy supply of “what if?”
BrainStormer brings together William S. Frisbee Jr.’s experience as a science fiction author, Marine veteran, and computer consultant with an appetite for exploring how imagined worlds work.
You do not need every answer before you begin. You need useful questions, sound foundations, and the freedom to discover something better along the way.
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