I’ve gone from having a neat universe with no story to having a little short story to having the potential for a book. One of the biggest problems with action adventures is how many times can the hero save the world? Either you have to get new villains (more powerful natch), do the [...]
The Dizzy Dean caretaker crew has to admit that they haven’t a clue as to whether or not any of the popsicles are infected. They will be paying rapt attention to new decontamination and quarantine protocols that are being developed. Some of the crew will have served in the Interdiction Patrol and will [...]
I’m at that point where the stories are coming to life in my mind, but I don’t have the experience or confidence to write them.
In some cases, details just pop into my head. The Dizzy Dean is the name given to the hijacked ship, Jenny Dalton will become the main driving force in defining the [...]
In the The Plague Years, I had a story idea:
A story arc might be a hijacked ship going close to where a spacer ship goes. During the long journey, the two crews keep in contact to pass the time. The spacers help the hijackers deal with emergencies. The crew disgorges the popsicles on the planet [...]
I want the initial exodus from Earth to start out slow and controlled. This would the colonization of our solar system. And I want them to be self sufficient. But I don’t want them to be self governing.
And I want some probes sent out to Alpha Centauri and Bernard’s Star. Some asteroid ships with [...]
The story Misfits is about Miri and what happened on Klamath.
What blowed me away was that as I reread the cycle of books, I came across little details which basically said the Lee and Miller already had either written Misfits or they had a good outline. I.e., Miri’s treasure box has the master key, she [...]
Steve Miller and Sharon Lee have a nice setup for doing Serialized Science Fiction over at korval.com: Home of the Liaden Universe®.
I’ve been reading their work for quite some time and I’ve even paid for some of their work in the Embiid Publishing electronic format. Luckily I’ve been quite good at backing up both [...]
List of nearest stars, but not what is close to them
SolStation.com allows you to determine which stars are close to a given star - i.e., it is not Sol centric.
Stars and planetary systems in fiction lets you know how other authors have used the systems.
I was trying to decide where the first interstellar probe would [...]
Title says it all. I got in all of the notes and I now have a good grasp on where some of the ideas fit and where some do not.
I have several one line story pitches, but no clue as to where to go. I seem to have a detailed culture, economic battle ground, etc [...]
I’ve decided to start using my MacBook Air to do all of my writing.
It goes with me wherever I go and it has shells for me to run my perl scripts, to scp my stuff upto Serialized Science Fiction, etc. I probably will use it differently than most people attempting to write would if they [...]
