I finished the rough draft of Wallwalker yesterday! It feels good to actually finish a piece. I had been feeling a bit disheartened about my writing lately, for various reasons, and yesterday I finally realized that the only thing to do was to keep at it–which inspired me to bang out the rest of the story. [...]
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 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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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, 20 or 30 minutes. [...] I’m furiously working on Algae to try to get it into some semblance of shape for my deadline on Monday. I know I’ve probably said this before, but this is the longest and biggest 10K to 12K story I’ve ever written. Good gawd, the details! I guess that’s the danger of writing about something that actually [...] Here’s more about the topics I researched while writing my short story “Algae”. This is Blood Falls, a formation of rust-colored ice that is emerging from the end of a glacier in Antartica. The microbes that give the ice its red color have traveled four kilometers to reach the glacier’s terminus, and they are part of an [...] I’ve been taking a break from editing The Outerlands to work on another short story. This one takes place on a fictional planet called Diamanta, where it’s almost always cold. I imagine it being kind of like “planet Alaska” or “planet far-north Canada”. One of the main industries there is mining–specifically, iron mining. They mine the [...] |
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