Started work in earnest today on my next #SciFi novel, a space opera inspired by Thucydides & dealing with ethical dilemmas in wartime. Major question of the work: How can one build proactively when others' destructive actions constantly compel triage-based response?
Process differs for every writer: I'm of the school that endlessly revises the first 20% of a story before I can finish the draft; I need the initial cadence *just* right to set a tone for the rest.
Still, it's a start! #AmWriting
@NikkiBuschEdit Thanks, Nikki! In the writing world, there are always people who think they know The One Right Way to write (usually, the method of just banging out a very rough full first draft, then fixing it all in editing), so the rest of us try our best to make sure newer writers know the only "right" way to write is whatever way works for you. Appreciate the well-wishing! :)
@MLClark It took me 15 years to come up with the opening line for my memoir. If the opening statement isn't perfect, the rest of it will flop.
@Oma_Trisha Exactly! 🙂 Birds of a feather, Oma Trisha.
@MLClark ... and you're worried about whether you can write essay pitches ... 😂
@thewebrecluse 😂 *successful* essay pitches. It's a tough market to crack!
But I think I've figured out just the right topic for such an essay. Just need to find the time, while also working on a piece on biocomputing and consciousness studies for OnlySky tomorrow. Always more to do! 🙃
@MLClark As always ... in awe of you M 😆 I can't imagine an kind of literary ANYTHING that wouldn't benefit from your unique level of skill at pairing the most perfectly symbiotic subjects into something epic and bringing the feels out of it. I don't know what these people are normally publishing but it can't be as good 😆 I'd be lying though if I didn't say I'd give anything to see your work NOT along side headlines about "I ❤️ hot youth pastors" stickers ...
@MLClark Is the answer to the major question: "with coffee?" :D
@Apocryphiliac Heck, it can't go much worse than all the other strategies we've tried! 😂
@MLClark I might have misunderstood.
Is this the concern of the work or the concern in producing the work… or maybe both? 🤔🧐
@Apocryphiliac Concern of the work! But hey, if coffee brings us intergalactic peace - or even global peace! - I'll take it. :)
@MLClark I’d be happy with a few peaceful hours. 🙃
@MLClark, that's a fascinating process. Thank you for sharing it. I'm always curious about how different authors arrive at a finished draft. Good luck with the rest of the writing.