2016-10-07 15:23
This blog has been moved to a shiny new self-hosted site: Please follow me there.Sorry, no intelligent reptilian species will be allowed in my imaginary universe. (Reptile by kwayne64 on dev… Read More
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A blog about writing, science fiction, and the Catholic science fiction novel I am writing.
2014-11-07 16:28
A DIY cover mock-up I created for my beta readersI've taken a long holiday from blogging while I labored over draft 3 of my science fiction novel, Cast into the Deep Sea of Stars, which I'll… Read More
2013-10-08 15:11
Today I’m going to review the free Kindle sample of John Scalzi's Old Man's War. Why review just the sample, rather than the whole book? Read my previous post for a full explanation, b… Read More
2013-10-08 15:11
Today I’m going to review the free Kindle sample of John Scalzi's Old Man's War. Why review just the sample, rather than the whole book? Read my previous post for a full explanation, b… Read More
2013-10-07 18:03
A self-portrait of my juggling act:writing, revising, marketing,taking little breaks for R&R.For a long time now, I’ve been contemplating a new blogging venture – which may b… Read More
2013-08-21 05:05
A couple of months ago, I took a pause from writing my own Catholic science fiction novel, Cast Into the Deep Sea of Stars, and spent some time searching online (as I do from time to time) f… Read More
2013-08-20 15:49
Detail from Franco Brambilla's "Aliens and Priest"I see it's been a while since I posted anything on this blog, but that's because I've been busy working on my novel. I've also done a little… Read More
2013-08-01 21:08
I wrote a few months ago about how my protagonist doesn’t fit most of the stereotypes for science fiction heroines. Now it appears that the entire novel may prove to be a horse of a di… Read More
2013-08-01 20:57
I thought I would post something about the novel I have in hand, and those planned to follow. Theoretically, at least, the Sancta Futura series will comprise a minimum of nine installme… Read More
2013-05-05 01:24
This week has been an exciting one. First, as I mentioned in my last post, I far exceeded my Camp NaNoWriMo goal for the month (30,000 words), having written 44,576 words of the first draft… Read More
2013-05-05 01:10
Wow! Camp has been great. As you can see, I've won the archery award. What's better than a perfect bulls-eye? Whatever it is, I made it -- my goal was to write another 30,000 words on the fi… Read More
2013-05-05 01:02
Taking a break from writing and editing my sci-fi novel, I discovered the wonderful Pulp-o-mizer over on the Thrilling Tales website. The whole website is pretty marvelous, at least to those… Read More
2013-05-05 00:57
Nearly halfway through Camp NaNoWriMo, I'm having lots of fun participating in classic camp activities. For instance, I've been tying knots (in the lives of my two leads), pulling pranks (wr… Read More
2013-05-05 00:55
Perhaps a toast is in order?What is the ritual sailors have for when they cross the equator? (I hope it doesn't involved getting a tattoo.) I feel like I should be doing something to celebra… Read More
2013-04-12 06:37
I've been learning from the experts how to plot a novel, using resources that were free to me (or almost). Besides reading chapters out of books I didn't want to buy at Half Price Book… Read More
2013-04-01 20:25
I haven't posted here lately because I've been hard at work on the novel -- I'm over half way on the first draft (about 69K words), and I'm off to Camp NaNoWriMo this month, so I'm hoping th… Read More
2013-02-24 22:03
I've been doing a lot of background work on my scifi novel (new working title: Cast Into the Deep Sea of Stars). I've been dealing with three major tasks, more or less simultaneously: learni… Read More
2013-02-01 03:19
Having a well-planned world before you writeis important for a science fiction writer.I got about halfway through the extended outline of my novel -- which is not really an outline so much a… Read More
2013-01-29 23:00
NOT my protagonist!Having finished going through Bell’sbook on plot and structure, I’ve begun to think more about character and incident and how they relate to structure and the… Read More
2012-12-27 07:24
NaNoWriMo is one-third gone, and I'm just now starting to write -- unexpected domestic situations threw me off my stride, and the Catholic Reading Project took up most of my writing time. Ho… Read More
2012-12-27 07:15
One of the Christian scifi novelscurrently free on AmazonIn my quest to seek out and sample Christian science fiction currently available, I found all these Kindle freebies on Amazon. One of… Read More
2012-11-29 20:33
Athena is miffed, having been dissed in my dream.I've been reading a fair amount of advice on writing lately, and one of the suggestions for coming up with story ideas was to keep a dream jo… Read More
2012-11-22 04:23
Will there ever be "farmers in the sky"?The sci-fi novel I am working on takes place several centuries in the future, at a time when people have finally gotten a bit bored with scientific an… Read More
2012-11-02 04:14
Oh, yeah, I also took a nap.The first day of National Novel Writing Month has been slow, with respect to actually writing even a single word of my planned novel. I'm always one for a long, s… Read More
2012-11-01 01:54
I've decided to take on the NaNoWriMo challenge this years. For anyone who has no idea what this means, NaNoWriMo refers to "National Novel Writing Month" -- for the last several years, nove… Read More
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