Let’s explore the first impressions made by books, TV, and movies that we’d love to experience again, as new.
I don’t think most fictional worlds would be fun to vacation in, unless you’re into extreme risk. They’re the setting of a story for a reason, and that reason usually involves violence or mortal stakes of some kind.
Most readers would be surprised at how often writers abandon books, even completed ones. Follow me as we take a journey through my head-canon of the universes that I’ve either almost abandoned or am not yet ready to complete.
Conspiracies themselves aren’t uncommon, especially during the cold war era of my childhood. Keeping them secret for long periods of time is uncommon. Once acted upon, they tend to become public.
Over the years writing TAU CETI, I’ve had a short playlist of songs that I felt either captured a theme of the story or the mood of a particular scene.
TAU CETI has had two different prologues over the course of its existence. This is the first prologue, Dr. Velasco’s very vague origin story. It is quite short.
I’m not a foodie. I like a boring, spice-free diet. But, I’ve lived many places and eaten in interesting restaurants. Here’s three restaurants I’ve enjoyed.
There are authors that I’d love to meet. But I wouldn’t want to spend the night talking shop. The social anxiety would kill me.
All events have an impact, some large, some small. I know with a prompt like this, the inclination is to change some big, historical event. I’m going to save one life.
Publishing is broken and there’s not enough time to fix it before my novel comes out. Two words keep coming to mind: Plan Accordingly. I wish I knew how.
