Know the rules before you break them! Created with Scrivener 2.6 Mac Template Version 1.2 Thanks to the assistance of Instagram user writerlydosageofinspiration—an effort by Lelia Strong at The Writer’s Block—the 30 Days/30 Chapters pages, as found somewhere in the NaNoWiMo forums, I was able to get my hands on …
This afternoon the Memoir app alerted me to the fact that I announced to the world one year ago today (right here on my site) that I would be writing GALAXY. A year later, I still haven’t published anything, and I’ve only made a few blog updates about the story…but …
Back-story Plots Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on some important back-story plots for my space opera novel Galaxy. These key plots may or may not make it into the published novel because they serve only to help me set a believable stage for the reader when they enter the story. Below …
I often wonder how other authors started out and what tools they used to organize their writing. After doing some initial research and reading articles about which software is better for what purpose etc., I set my path out before me. Between my Mac, iPhone and iPad, I’ve assembled a suite …
The picture of this young man fired up my imagination. I do not know who he is, who took the photo, or why. But I when I stumbled across it, I realized he would be the visual inspiration for a main character in a story I was incubating in my mind. It’s his eyes… they desperately …
Great science fiction is wrapped in solid story telling that is supported by a vast array of stuff that shapes the universe in which memorable characters exist. All of the ideas in my head need a stage to perform on. Even though I write them down for future development, I realized …
Galactic Inspiration – This is the image that started it all. From the moment I saw it, the ideas in my mind began spinning themselves into a new storyline that I am content to code-name as Galaxy. A year or so later, I can finally begin the exciting journey of weaving the many ideas …