Mana Winds
We sail the mana winds into interstellar space. We surf the bursting magic of the stars.
Galaxy∞Bound
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Window
Tove often pondered what reality really was. Maybe it was true that we are all in a simulation? So when a window opened in front of her, hanging in thin air, it oddly didn’t bother her so much as it made her think “about time”.
Nesting
Professor Greene spread his wings while he brushed six fingers over his facial hair. I did not dare disturb him while he was thinking, and waited anxiously for his feedback. "You're right, this does pose a problem. The simulation will grind to a halt if they keep this up." We looked at the footage of the simulated people in their simulated lab as they were coming to terms with the simulated…
Tell, don't show
From the department of "oh, no, he's avoiding his editing again" I know a few of you - authors, English literature students, and a few others - might have gotten close to choking on something when you saw "tell, don't show" since you've been told the opposite over and over. Or maybe you're angrily firing up Twitter just from the title ( come at me! ) Ironically I've showed you, rather than told…
Causal Boom
(this was sent to my mailing-list first; sign-up below if you want more like this, along with other updates) "Light in a vacuum moves at the speed of propagation of causality," he said. I looked back at him with a blank expression. I had no idea what that meant. We were walking past the accident site towards the tents that had been housing the investigation.
Representation in writing
There are two main reasons to care about representation in writing. The first is that it matters to people. The wonderful late Ursula Le Guin wrote about this in the form of the feedback she got from people who felt more represented by the diversity of her characters: I have heard, not often, but very memorably, from readers of color who told me that the Earthsea books were the only books in the…
The path to Galaxy Bound
When I first started planning this series, I had no idea it would take this long for it to come to fruition. I intended to self-publish from the start. That was not the problem. The problem was that I started writing without a plan. And roughly 10k words in, I ground to a halt. I struggled my way past another 6k words, but then got nowhere. To those of you with no concept of how long a novel is…