Why people get close but don’t finish. In February of 2021, I opened a new Word document. An idea had popped into my head, and I wanted to get it down on paper (the screen) before it was gone. This is what I wrote: New idea: Sci-fi story where the aliens are the familiar fantasy tropes. Elves, orcs, goblins, all of the monsters of D&D as aliens instead. True sci-fantasy. All the tropes of characters
Writing for the love of storytelling. This might be oversharing, but I have very few childhood memories. Why is not important to this. One that I do recall, when I was almost 5 years old, was experiencing Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) for the first time, What I recall was hearing that big, soaring, amazing John Williams theme, the text scrolling up the screen. Then the pan down to the planet. Idyllic. Peaceful.
The first book of my Savagespace sci-fi trilogy is published today! In 2020, I published 3 books. Then, in 2021, I published 6 books, all of my Forgotten Fodder series and 4/5 of my Void Incursion series. In 2022 I published nothing. Then, in 2023, I published the last Void Incursion novel. This year I am publishing all 3 novels of my new sci-fi trilogy, Savagespace. As murderous anti-life forces emerge from savagespace threatening the
What message does your choice send to the reader? I just finished a military sci-fi book, the first in a series. The story had a great protagonist, an excellent example of Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”. The action, the adventure, the other characters, and the world the author created were intriguing. It was great hard sci-fi, and it was hard to put down. But as the conflict shifted from the protagonist proving himself to learning who the
There’s more than enough room for all of our books. I am not a well-known, traditionally published sci-fi author like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, or NK Jemisin. I’m not any of the indie authors I admire like M.R. Forbes, Kate Sheeran Swed, or Jessie Kwak. Neither am I any other sci-fi or fantasy author out there. Nope. I’m MJ Blehart, storyteller, and author of sci-fi, fantasy, and Steampunk novels. Since beginning my self-publishing, indie-author
Making art, like playing a sport, is all about passion. I’ve met many people who find writing to be nothing but a chore. It’s not fun, it causes discomfort, and there are lots of other things they’d rather do than write. I feel the same about fiber arts. My wife can crochet anything she sets her mind to. She can also knit and do other fiber arts. While I can sew buttons onto things and
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I post here twice weekly about my work with Positivity, Mindfulness, and Conscious Reality Creation. I’ve been blogging every week, without fail, since the beginning of 2012.
Mondays – Positivity (and related ideas for making choices and decisions in life).
Wednesdays – Pathwalking (my philosophy for consciously choosing how to live your life mindfully, on your terms).