I’m pleased to announce that with the completion of the fifth episode rewrite, looks like the first draft of the Ex Populus collection is completed and off to editing for review and revising. Depending on how long it will take to go through nearly one hundred thousand words, my guess is that we’ll go [...]

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The first bit of good news I have is that Ex Populus will be published later this year, with the first nine episodes inside, chronicalling the first year or so of President Nunez’ administration.  It will be published under my own private press, Hope Station Publishing, and will show up on Amazon and Barnes & [...]

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During the first few days of the Hope Station: Phoenix saga, I toyed with the idea of a non-military or political story involving a single ship manned by civilians just trying to carve a living out of life in space.  A five page start emerged and was passed around as a means of portraying how [...]

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What am I intending to accomplish in December?

Finish Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque: Ready Five
Start/Finish Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque: The Ganymede Conference
Finish Knight Commander’s 6th Revision and hope that there isn’t a 7th.
Commission a cover for Ex Populus‘ release on lulu.com.

Hopefully, this will all get done within the next three weeks, but I’m not [...]

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The deconstruction of a character is fun when you’re reading a story.  Maybe I’m in the minority, but I enjoy trying to see some of the granules of information writers use to put together a character.  I think the little things about them present a depth to them that some writers might otherwise ignore.  I’m [...]

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I thought I did pretty well during the National Novel Writing Month. I was shooting for 100,000 words as the Evolution Writers site had thrown down the gauntlet for its members to give it a try, but it turned out that I didn’t need 100k words to tell my story. Just a hair [...]

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Ready Five is turning out to be something of an interesting episode for Ex Populus. Initially, the story was primarily going to be about how Amy needed to select her new deputy, but in the planning stages, it turns out that the underlying backdrop will be a war between two colonies who’re fighting to [...]

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As I had written in a previous post, I was intent upon making some changes to the story structure for Ex Populus Libertas Quod Prosperitasque. Some of the changes included the addition of a second ’season’ of episodes written after the 2134 election between the sitting president, Carter Nunez, and the vice-chairperson of the [...]

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As you could probably tell from the graphic in the previous post, I won NaNoWriMo 2006! That was my second year attempting and I had a lot of fun in writing Red Planet Greed (formerly known as Untitled #28). Inspired by the many, many police procedurals I catch on television, Red Planet Greed [...]

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Hi there!
First of all, we’ve upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.0.5, so if there are any issues, please let me know.
Secondly, I’ve begun my NaNo WIP, and I’m publishing a current status image, courtesy of deviantlore.org:

- RAM

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