I'm gearing up to start my revision pass on WARBOTS and just came across this line that I'm particluarly proud of:
"Are you calling to offer your surrender? Lay down arms now and maybe the Guild won’t shove a spit up your ass and turn you like a rotisserie.”
"Forensic accountants with guns, an oligarch’s worst nightmare."
#PennedPossibilities 701. MC POV: What is freedom to you?
Having control over the decisions that affect my life, and the means to actually act on those decisions.
Both of which I had before - more than most people.
Neither of which I have now - or am likely to ever have again.
#WordWeavers 9. MC POV: Whose advice do you value the most?
In this new world... Manayka. He's roughly a grad student, while Atosho's a full 'professor.' Still, Atosho's a woman. A woman from *this* world. I don't think she's equipped to really understand what I'm going through, y'know?
Honestly, I'm not sure Manayka is, either. Yet he knows a fuck of a lot more about how to live as a male in this culture, and I kinda *need* to learn that stuff.
#WritersCoffeeClub 8. Talk about something you wrote and later removed, and why.
Several chapters devoted to the first day Jim lands in the new timeline. (TBF, it's a big day.)
Pacing that was tricky. I had a section that was in stream-of-consciousness style as he moved through a neighborhood. I loved it, and intended it to help the reader understand his thought process... but it had to go to keep the story moving.
#PennedPossibilities 681. Let’s talk about your current WIP. Although it of course depends on your genre, do you have an antagonist or an evil villain?
I have a few characters that are definitely antagonistic toward the MC, but the main Big Bad is the world itself. Even his *allies* frequently give him trouble, just because of the huge cultural disconnect.
The more he integrates into the local milieu, though, the more direct, active opposition he'll be facing.
#TimeTravelAuthors whatever day
The fourth sample chapter of SECONDARY is up on my blog.
"It was an excellent lie. I bought it completely."
https://secondary.blog/tag/secondary-sample
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#TimeTravelAuthors whatever day
The third sample chapter of SECONDARY is up on my blog. The Time Eye comes online.
"People who think university types are boring should have seen the party 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 night."
#WordWeavers 18 How money-savvy is your MC?
In our world? He's privileged enough to be able to pursue graduate school all the way to a PhD.
In the new timeline? He's not even sure they ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 money.
#TimeTravelAuthors 15: How complicated is your time travel?
It takes a nuclear plant and billions in special technology to generate enough power to move individual photons around. (The designer eventually figures out how to move roughly a grain of sand... so long as you're cool with a nuclear meltdown and maybe an explosion or two.)
Jim doesn't understand how it actually works... at all. Which becomes a major problem once the machine gets hijacked.
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