Deacon Carver’s Disappearing Cats
As a story develops, plot points may become irrelevant, and disappear. Or they may become too difficult to keep. Sometimes, they have nine lives.
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Deacon Carver
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Who’s Your Audience?
This prompt steps into the middle of an ongoing, never-ending debate among the writing community: Should you write to market or write what you’d want to read? I can only represent one of these perspectives, write what you’d want to read.
Deacon Carver
ONBOARDING: Deacon vs Rikaine
As part of a writing course I was recently taking, we were asked to develop scenes that showed the conflicting personalities between the main characters. In this scene, Deacon Carver, a smuggler, is being “onboarded” onto the Chaucer, an Interplanetary Union vessel.
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The Deacon Carver Chronicles – Origins of Character Names
I thought it might be time to start sharing a bit of this universe, where it’s going and who’s taking you there. And I thought it’d be fun to start with character names.
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Character Intro: Char Osbaldistan
Meet Char Osbaldistan. She was a smuggler. But when we meet her in-universe, she’s a full-fledged member of an Interplanetary Union crew.