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Chapter 20

I’m starting Chapter 20 today, in first draft.  I’m not sure why that seems like a landmark, probably that nice round number.  But a landmark is what I’ve decided it is.  Chapter 20:  Tentative Title:  Gilbert’s rampage

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Sound on Refuge

When I created Refuge in my mind, I created a world much larger than Earth.  A world that while much greater in ocean coverage percentage wise, still has three times the land area of Earth.  That’s a lot of breathing room! I’m writing what is currently Chapter 19, and there is an

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Working on cover art

I’ve written several chapters over the last few days, although none of them are refined enough to give a sample. What I’ve also been working on, and what has kept me up until 4am, is this image of how I think the sky might look on Refuge about 2/3 of the way

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Just a joke for the weekend…

An electron is driving down a motorway, and a policeman pulls him over. The policeman says: “Sir, do you realise you were travelling at 130km per hour?” The electron replies: “Oh great, now I’m lost.”

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The day/night cycle of Refuge

Ok, the day/night cycle on a moon that circles a gas giant is going to be complex. You live on Refuge.  You get up in the morning, the sun, Oasis, is rising in the Eastern sky.  The day is going to be a beautiful green!  The sun rises higher and higher in

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Technology

I can now update the blog on the road via BlogPress. That’s a good thing, if the Internet is good where I am. Currently, in my living room, it’s excellent. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Location:The living room

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Thanks to my writing group

I wanted to specifically mention my writing group, Writer’s Write, and how grateful I am to all the help they’ve given me.  Specifically this Thursday, some of the best of the best showed up for critique that night and pointed out the errors of my ways to me.  And, as they often

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Chapters keep rolling

I’m writing my chapters as sparsely as possible, right now.  Minimal detail, although I’m putting almost all of the character conversations in.  I am halfway through Chapter 14 and I just passed 21,685 words for the book.  There is quite a lot of what I would consider almost cinematic action.  A ship

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Reading

What are some good space opera/hard sci-fi books you’ve read lately?  I picked up Firestar in hardback at a garage sale for a dollar.  I’ll post up later what I think. I usually read the first few chapters to decide if I’m hooked or not.  Recent stuff I’ve read is Building Harlequin’s

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The Michael Stennis

I’m going to give a bunch of information I’ve dreamed up about Sarah Dayson’s Seventh Fleet.  It doesn’t matter, doesn’t change the book too much, but it does give me something that I can measure against when I write.  Oh, the Stennis lost a shuttle?  They have one less now, better mark