I'm a new writer of science fiction and adventure tales. I also make occasional forays into fantasy and realistic fiction. I love post-apocalyptic settings, utopias and dystopias, coming-of-age stories, and stories about underdogs struggling against the machine.
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things are moving... slowly...

Wow, that really doesn’t look like much progress since the last time I posted a progress bar, does it?

I’ve become a big fan of the Stuff You Should Know podcast. It’s a really good resource when you don’t know much about a topic, and need to find out the basics in like, [...]

Learning to read people's thoughts and turn invisible

I’m starting to realize something about Sweet Heart Catalyst: I’ve bitten off a really big chunk to chew. Or however the saying goes. It feels like my last story was so simple by comparison; all I had to worry about was cold weather, ice roads, iron mining, heavy equipment, a space station, and two [...]

lookee, progress!

I’ve made some progress on Sweet Heart Catalyst. I’ve been writing this thing in a different way than I usually do. Instead of starting at the beginning and writing each chapter or scene in succession, I’ve been using prompts to spark my imagination, and then writing the scenes as they come to me, [...]