Graham Clements

Writer, science fiction fan, blogger, web designer, and dreamer.

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I am a writer, blogger, and web designer. I enjoy writing novels and stories. I have written non-fiction for online and traditional print platforms.

I write mainly science fiction. I love pondering the future and the challenges humanity might face.

My non-fiction has included writing for the Divine website for six years. It was a website for people with disabilities. I also had a stint writing for my local newspaper, the Wangaratta Chronicle.

I design websites. I ran my own business, Wangaratta Website Design Services, where I designed websites for businesses and authors.

I also have a long-running blog where I review books and write about writing, science fiction, web design and the internet.

We live in interesting times

It is a time when it is hard to tell what is the more significant threat to writers and the integrity of the written word. Artificial intelligence is rapidly increasing its hold on the world and making inroads into the writing field. Unfortunately it is frequently used to write articles full of incorrect or misleading facts.

Even without the ‘aid’ of artificial intelligence, social media users are often the source of fabricated facts. When a new meme surfaces on my social media feed, I often fact-check it and frequently discover it’s incorrectly attributed to a person or organisation.

I make up stories

I have written fiction on and off for the past few decades. Along the way, I have completed a few writing qualifications, like a Master of Creative Writing. I don’t write many short stories, as my ideas usually demand the elaboration of many thousands of words. I am currently working on five novel-length manuscripts.

Just about all my fiction writing is science fiction. I love to speculate on the future. To imagine what might become. My stories range from cli-fi to space operas to the apocalyptic. I am particularly interested in exploring the impact of the technological singularity: nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence.

I try to stop stories being made up

Using facts, telling the truth, and treating human beings equally are ideals that are very important to me. That’s why many of my posts on social media will have links to sources so people can see where my “facts” come from.

I can’t stand the dreaded angry shout of “FALSE NEWS” used by those who don’t want facts to get in the way of their opinion.

I have worked as a writer/journalist for print and online media. To the best of my ability, I have written only fact-based news stories. Stories that have credible sources.

I am particularly interested in the world from the viewpoint of people with disabilities and how they are enabled or disabled by society.

I design websites

I ran my own website design business, Wangaratta Website Design Services, for three years. I designed websites for horse trainers, tradies, authors, orchards, and gamers. My web design page displays a portfolio of some of my websites. I designed and built this website.

I found running my own business a real challenge and still wonder how things would have been different if COVID had not hit two weeks after I opened the business.