KM Freeman
Author of the completed manuscript The Niagara Event coming soon!
Read about my stories, follow me on my journey to being published (and beyond!), and learn with me about fascinating scientific, technological, engineering, and mathematical wonders.
Writing for Scientists
Science fiction has tricky rules. You're making up science or imagining what it could be capable of by pulling the information out of thin air. The audience understands that it is fiction. But if you don't explain enough then it doesn't sound like science.
So you do your research and understand the where the math ends and the make-believe begins. Now your editor is asking "how" and "why" the make believe does what it does and you just want to say, "You got me! It's all pretend! I made it up!" But science fiction isn't about proving your story is plausible to physicists who know it is not. Writing is ensuring that the underlying logic is consistent. But how deep does that logic need to go?
Feb 14, 2025
Food Genius of Soy
When I learned my baby I was nursing had a soy allergy, I thought it would be easy to cut soy out of my diet. I'd just reduce the quantity of Pad thai I ate, no problem. That was before I understood the food science genius that is soy.
Soy is everywhere. If you doubt this, pull out your snack drawer and start reading ingredients. Just skip to the end where the allergens will be listed in bold. Love Oreos? Contains soy. Like eating anything at Sonic? Soy. It's all because it's just such an amazing ingredient.
Dec 3, 2024
Efficiency Expert Heroes: The Gilbreths
Sometimes I am discouraged and think, "How can I possibly add 'author' to my identity when it is already full with technology professional, mother, wife, and the small tasks and titles that draw on my attention like grocery shopping and remembering to call my mother?"
We only have a finite quantity of time and energy to spend, so how should we optimize it and keep all the plates spinning? The gold standard in this space isn't a blogger or influencer, but rather the husband and wife team of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
Nov 2, 2024
What Makes Autumn Leaves So Brilliant?
In Tennessee, you have to take a trip to Chattanooga or the Smoky Mountains when the leaves change. The roads will reveal sweeping vistas of untouched mountains swirling in reds and yellows, purples and greens. If you want to kick it up a notch, then travel the “Tail of the Dragon,” a road that kisses the Smoky Mountains as it winds through 318 curves in an eleven mile stretch.
If you can time it right with the changing leaves, the drive is so beautiful, you’ll realize you’ve never actually seen the color yellow properly before. I love to go there in the fall, but the window of beauty is quite tight and the majesty ebbs and flows from year to year. Why is that? How do I predict that? Why isn’t my backyard that amazing?
Sept 30, 2024
Iterative Methodologies, Killer Nashville, and Yachts
I spent this past weekend (and the tail end of last week) at a writing conference in Nashville, TN. Killer Nashville may lean towards murder mystery, thriller, and cozy genres, but at its core, the conference is about authors getting together and supporting each other. It also socializes and breaks down stigmas between authors, aspiring authors, editors, and agents. It was a great chance to get out of the normal 9-5 grind and focus on writing and its opportunities.
Aug 29, 2024
Photo by me of a pistol shrimp the group caught.
The Pistol Shrimp
The best vacations are the ones where you not only collect interesting memories, you collect interesting facts. So when we did a girls weekend at the beach, we also did a boat tour that came with its own naturalist and I learned that the world was more amazing than I realized. Read more
Find out more! Science.org How Stuff Works
Sept 8, 2023
Website Launched!
This website was created September 2, 2023. This will be where the latest blog posts will live before being archived into the blog archive pages either under "the craft" or "the life."
Sept 2, 2023