As a person who has lived many places, I’ve learned that if you want to stay somewhere, you have to make it home. So for me, ‘Home’ is more a feeling than a physical place.
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.
The prompt is a bit of a trap. It says “switch lives” with a fictional character. While you’re in their life, they’re also in yours. Plan Accordingly.
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.
TAU CETI is a big, complex story with a large cast of characters. This non-exhaustive list gives all of the important characters.
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?
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.
My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014. As much as she had become a fan of my writing, I knew there was a good chance that by the time I actually finished and published TAU CETI, it would be too late for her to appreciate or understand.
