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I leave on vacation tonight.

Overall, I feel pretty good about it. The last couple of months I've been trying to expand my writing. I love hard science fiction, but I've always been somewhat weak at writing about it. I think I'm overcoming that slowly.

Over the last couple of months, I've written:

1. The First Principle of Power
2. The Day the Laughter Survived
3. Fading Light from a Dying Star [This is really a horror story set in the far future, but I think it counts.]
4. Valedictorian Speech, 2055
5. One to Spare

For someone scared of writing science fiction stories, I think I did ok.

mallory_blog did a wonderful beta for #4 and #5. "Valedictorian Speech, 2055" is a bit sappy and sugary, but I think it fits the intended market. With only 800 available words, it is tough to write a solid story, and even more difficult to put that story in the form of a speech. Still, I think it is right for the market.

I wrote "One to Spare" for the Future Syndicate anthology. mallory_blog brought up a couple of good points that the story might be better if it starts early with the main character and her sick daughter. However, I'm not sure that this would work for this anthology. I might come up with a different entry for this story.

On the drive to work, I gave some thought to my writing. I need to complete novella #3 and editing novella #2. I need to do this BEFORE starting any other stories. When I get back, I will make that my first writing priority.

Other stories coming down the pike: [Cut because people might not want to read these and I mostly put them here so I don’t forget them.]

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I leave on vacation tonight.

Overall, I feel pretty good about it. The last couple of months I've been trying to expand my writing. I love hard science fiction, but I've always been somewhat weak at writing about it. I think I'm overcoming that slowly.

Over the last couple of months, I've written:

1. The First Principle of Power
2. The Day the Laughter Survived
3. Fading Light from a Dying Star [This is really a horror story set in the far future, but I think it counts.]
4. Valedictorian Speech, 2055
5. One to Spare

For someone scared of writing science fiction stories, I think I did ok.

mallory_blog did a wonderful beta for #4 and #5. "Valedictorian Speech, 2055" is a bit sappy and sugary, but I think it fits the intended market. With only 800 available words, it is tough to write a solid story, and even more difficult to put that story in the form of a speech. Still, I think it is right for the market.

I wrote "One to Spare" for the Future Syndicate anthology. mallory_blog brought up a couple of good points that the story might be better if it starts early with the main character and her sick daughter. However, I'm not sure that this would work for this anthology. I might come up with a different entry for this story.

On the drive to work, I gave some thought to my writing. I need to complete novella #3 and editing novella #2. I need to do this BEFORE starting any other stories. When I get back, I will make that my first writing priority.

Other stories coming down the pike: [Cut because people might not want to read these and I mostly put them here so I don’t forget them.]

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I have an author's page on Simian Publishing now.

http://www.simianpublishing.com/jasonandrew.htm

One thing I am going to do when the bulk of my soon to be published stories finally see print is something like http://www.poppyzbrite.com/characters.html

I like the mapping of the characters. I have two different story groupings that could benefit from a page like this.

The Crossroads Chronicles cover all of the Sentinel/Defiler stories, Heller stories, Tulpa Stories, and randomness that fit in that universe.

The Phoenix Chronicles cover the adventures of the crew of a cargo transport vessel in the far future. So far, there is only one novella for this, but I have enough ideas for several more novellas and maybe a novel.

I updated my character spreadsheet today. Some of my characters crossover in surprising ways. Sheldon the mystic tattoo artist appears in "Geometry of the Soul." He is also mentioned in "The Sound of the Dream" and "Skin Dancing."

Johnny Dalton never actually appears in any of my stories, but his story is told in "The Art of the Deal" and his awful music is referenced in many stories. He even appears as an actor in "15 Inches."

None of this is important to enjoying each of the stories, BUT it might provide an additional fun experience. I certain enjoyed Poppy's website.

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I have an author's page on Simian Publishing now.

http://www.simianpublishing.com/jasonandrew.htm

One thing I am going to do when the bulk of my soon to be published stories finally see print is something like http://www.poppyzbrite.com/characters.html

I like the mapping of the characters. I have two different story groupings that could benefit from a page like this.

The Crossroads Chronicles cover all of the Sentinel/Defiler stories, Heller stories, Tulpa Stories, and randomness that fit in that universe.

The Phoenix Chronicles cover the adventures of the crew of a cargo transport vessel in the far future. So far, there is only one novella for this, but I have enough ideas for several more novellas and maybe a novel.

I updated my character spreadsheet today. Some of my characters crossover in surprising ways. Sheldon the mystic tattoo artist appears in "Geometry of the Soul." He is also mentioned in "The Sound of the Dream" and "Skin Dancing."

Johnny Dalton never actually appears in any of my stories, but his story is told in "The Art of the Deal" and his awful music is referenced in many stories. He even appears as an actor in "15 Inches."

None of this is important to enjoying each of the stories, BUT it might provide an additional fun experience. I certain enjoyed Poppy's website.