
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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Two more lists I made using a characterization exercise from Lynn Viehl. I’m finding this very useful indeed!
..compile an alphabetical list of quirks, traits and/or other aspects of personality (positive or negative) that best describe your character. Try to avoid words that are synonyms of each other. For the tough letters (X and [...]
Here’s a fun and useful characterization exercise from Lynn Viehl:
..compile an alphabetical list of quirks, traits and/or other aspects of personality (positive or negative) that best describe your character. Try to avoid words that are synonyms of each other. For the tough letters (X and Z) you can use words that contain the [...]
Whoa, haven’t made a post here in quite a while. For that, I blame the Giant Home Improvement Project I’ve been embroiled in for the last month and a half. My husband and I have transformed the second floor of our house–from a very gray, dull and office-like setting, to a space that’s full [...]
I made some new “masthead” art for this blog. Hopefully it looks somewhat SF-ish. The two featured characters are from a story that’s on the back burner right now.
Also, new character art! My leading lady from Sweet Heart Catalyst, Voula. I’m so pleased with how this pic came out. It really looks [...]
Well, I’ve come to a decision: I need to start over on Sweet Heart Catalyst.
See, it took me forever to come up with what I have. First of all, my pesky main character had decided that he was a cop investigating a murder: a giant subject about which I Knew Nothing! (as Schultz [...]
I wrote the end of Sweet Heart Catalyst yesterday! Now all I have to do is write the, ahem, pesky middle part
But before I do that, I have to finish up that shortie about my bad guy who’s bad, bad, bad, and how he got that way. It’s about 1700 words so [...]
Sweet Heart Catalyst progress. Slow, but better than going backwards!
Thanks to my writing group, I’ve received some very useful feedback on my first draft of the Wallwalker short story, which I’m now calling Encounter on Planet 352. Looks like I have my de-tripe-ification work cut out for me
I started writing [...]
I’ve noticed that a few of my writer friends have been making maps lately. It’s inspired to make my own—something I needed to do anyway.
Here’s the area map for Sweet Heart Catalyst, showing three countries: Katro, Ochoroa, and Prima. The Charemi is a disputed territory claimed by both Katro and Ochoroa. My main [...]
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 [...]
The Sweet Heart Catalyst progress bar is still moving, however slowly. My new “write everything out of order, in small chunks, and in response to random prompts” approach makes me feel like I’m moving at a glacial pace and in a disorganized fashion–but on the plus side, it feels like almost everything I [...]
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