Writing

Status Report October 2024

First Gods Series Book 4 in the First Gods Series (Alien Cities) has been completed in draft form (September 2024). This was the second attempt for this book! I originally finished a first draft in 2023 but it was too rushed and incomplete. I had my mind on the last book in the series (Book 5) and it was obvious.…

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Time travel is a problem in storytelling

The First Gods series is Science Fantasy. Here’s Wikipedia’s description: Science fantasy is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy. In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as being scientifically logical, while a conventional fantasy story contains mostly supernatural and artistic elements that…

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How I write

Why would you care? Well, it’s always interesting, if nothing else, to see how other people do the things you do. Perhaps some small parts of their routines may be useful. Even in a negative sense. The scientific method is like that, finding out what doesn’t work (for you, with writing) is a valid result. I don’t use a quill…

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Outlining thoughts

Novelists consider their writing method to be either an outliner (they make notes on plot, plot progression, character changes, etc) or a pantser (a seat of the pants writer who starts with a blank page and just, well, writes). They argue which is better. Outliners consider a pantser ambitious. Do pantsers really think they can write a first draft that…

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