There’s a discussion evolving about the optimal length of a book series over at SFF Chronicles website. Do readers grow tired of a series after six books? If you write from passion will readers stay with you for however long you take?
Intellectually, no, I don’t believe everything happens for a reason. But emotionally, I feel that some things do happen for a reason. How do I reconcile that with my belief in free will? It’s a struggle. Read on…
I’m working to preserve my memories of the early days of my nomadic life, but technology isn’t helping me. I lost a lot of my Drupal content. I thought I’d also lost the old, hand-code HTML pages too. But I found an archive of them just recently.
I could cite Simon & Garfunkle, Johnny Clegg or a bunch of Beatles song lyrics, but I’m going to go with the Boss and two lines from Jungleland.
With thirty-eight chapters and a prologue, TAU CETI is an epic tale, with this final draft starting at 159,000 words.
I decided that my way to Africa was as a teacher. It took two years to get everything sorted. And longer to get there. I was facing two big hurdles: I’d never taught, and I’d never lived in another culture.
The WordPress/JetPack writing prompt for today is:
Do you think we’re shaped more by our experiences or by who we are? And my answer, without taking an easy out, is both.
I’ve been thinking Sam Neill thoughts since learning of his passing. This has led me back to “Until The End of The World” (1991). The film is a good example of a William Gibson’s quote that I like, “The future is already here, it’s just not distributed evenly.”
TAU CETI has had two different prologues over the course of its existence. Neither are in the final edit of the book. This is the second prologue, told from Michelle’s perspective, a flash forward from very near the end of the story.
There have been two important people on my path to writing short fiction. I’ve talked about one of them, Janet Reid, many times. The other person, I don’t know as much about: Alex F. Fayle.
