I have been working on an epic sci-fi novel for almost two-and-a-half years. I have wanted to write something sci-fi for a long time now. While I love epic fantasy, Steampunk, and my conscious reality creation blog, sci-fi is my first love. When I was a small child, maybe four or five years old, I…
Category: Writing Updates
Updates to my current writing projects
Why is Breaking Tropes Good?
Sometimes tropes should be broken. What is a trope? In the literary sense, a trope is an often used, even over-used theme. Perfect example – the heroine in a horror movie who runs away, only to trip while running and be brutally murdered. These are many and varied, but comfortable and familiar. The elder wizard…
What Do I Name This Thing?
Sometimes it takes me a while to find the name. When I first began work on The Source Chronicles, it was my unnamed Fantasy project. I began my glossary so I could track the characters, and I called it The Source. This would, in turn, lead me to find the plot, whereby my mysterious sorcerer…
How Am I Breaking from Typical Story Tropes?
It’s fun to break away from the typical story tropes. For years I have wanted to write a sci-fi “space opera”. An epic along the lines of a Star Wars or a Star Trek, but as unique as I could make it. One of the problems you face with these things is that there have…
What am I Currently Working on?
I began to work on my fantasy series, The Source Chronicles, in 1997. I was at work, bored, and tapped out this scene that popped into my head. Then, two more scenes were written, and now I had three main characters, and the story began to take shape. As I worked on the novel I…
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