I've started working on another novel. I looked through my list of ideas and picked the one that screamed the loudest. I'm excited about getting it written and I'm also serious about getting it done within a reasonable amount of time.
Now, if I can just get through the first chapter.
I like to write the first draft on 3x5 notebooks and then edit as I type it in to the computer. I've already ripped out and restarted the chapter twice now. I already know how the next chapter starts and I'm thinking ahead on how I want things to happen, but I can't decide what to explain in the first chapter. So frustrating. Even more so, because I know this chapter will get the most rewrites and edits as the story unfolds. Oh, well, for now it is that ever so familiar - one step forward, two steps back.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
First!
The first post must, of course, be dedicated to shamelessly plugging my novel. It is the reason I've launched the Facebook page, website, and blog after all.
So what's it about? Read on, but please remember that I'm writing novels and condensing them into jacket cover blurbs is an art I will never master.
Red Sky at Morning is a science fiction novel which takes place in the mid 26th century. Mars has been colonized for about 100 years, but space colonization did not spread out as expected from there. Instead of being a springboard to the rest of the solar system, Mars has become little more than a tourist attraction.
For Simon Owen it would have always remained little more than an annoyance on television or the billboards he passed on his way to work, but one phone call changes everything. He will be charged with destroying an entire mining settlement on Mars and shown images of himself enacting the crime, all under the narration of his own voice on the other side of the call. It will throw his entire life off balance and he will struggle to regain control of it as he travels to Mars to unravel how he could be implicated in such a heinous act. He'll have to hurry, for he is followed closely by Detective Jake DeVitt, an officer from Earth working as liaison with the Mars Planetary Security Force.
Let me know if I've interested anyone (or even if I haven't - but please be kind).
So what's it about? Read on, but please remember that I'm writing novels and condensing them into jacket cover blurbs is an art I will never master.
Red Sky at Morning is a science fiction novel which takes place in the mid 26th century. Mars has been colonized for about 100 years, but space colonization did not spread out as expected from there. Instead of being a springboard to the rest of the solar system, Mars has become little more than a tourist attraction.
For Simon Owen it would have always remained little more than an annoyance on television or the billboards he passed on his way to work, but one phone call changes everything. He will be charged with destroying an entire mining settlement on Mars and shown images of himself enacting the crime, all under the narration of his own voice on the other side of the call. It will throw his entire life off balance and he will struggle to regain control of it as he travels to Mars to unravel how he could be implicated in such a heinous act. He'll have to hurry, for he is followed closely by Detective Jake DeVitt, an officer from Earth working as liaison with the Mars Planetary Security Force.
Let me know if I've interested anyone (or even if I haven't - but please be kind).
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