Scif-Fi & Fantasy writer, exploring the depths of insanity and traveling the alternate universes.
Up till now everything had been going smoothly. But when I reached the last fifty pages of the story, I realized I didn’t like the way it was turning out. I didn’t like the original ending at all. Now, the end of the story had to be rewritten, probably 80%…
It should have been easy; all I had to do, more or less, was copying what was on the printout, even if it was a bit faded and in need of a magnifying glass from time to time. I started with the intent of just copying exactly what was there…
I haven’t experienced this very much so far, until the day before yesterday, that is. I’m currently working on another book that’s not a part of the After Earth series. In fact, when I first started writing this story, I was writing it by hand, as we had no computer…
Let’s delve a bit further into finding and creating characters for your writing. For instance, say you need an auto mechanic in your story. Remember the mechanics you’ve known, both professional and the back-yard type. How did they dress? How did they walk and talk — what mannerisms can you…
When I talk to people who’ve read at least the first book in my steampunk/fantasy series After Earth: Journey To The Black City, I sometimes hear, “Where on earth do you ‘dream up’ your characters?” The answer can be quite obvious — we’ve all spent our lives meeting characters! Think…
In my steampunk/fantasy book series, beginning with After Earth: Journey To The Black City, I wanted to develop believable protagonists and antagonists. Too many times, the latter are more or less overlooked in stories and in films. Ask yourself, how many films have I seen where the ‘bad guys’ are…
Steam is a very powerful force, and by careful recycling, a steam driven machine, and run for a very long time without being refilled. In my Steampunk/Fantasy series, “After: Earth”, there are odd mixtures of technology. Steam power is used for almost everything, though the city-states have gaslight illumination, and,…
We need to speak more about the society, and time frame of my Steampunk/Fantasy series, beginning with “Journey To The Black City”. Humanity, as we found out the last time, is now divided into two societies—the tribal folk, who are hunters and farmers, and those who dwell in the huge,…
And now, its time to discuss the time frame and back history of my Steampunk/Fantasy series. In the very first of the six novels that make up the “After: Earth” series, titled “Journey To The Black City”, we find that the history of this earth is not…quite the same as…
Beyond the characters, and the mechanical devices I dreamed up for my Steampunk/Fantasy novels, there is something else. There are ancient swords that seem to carry a spiritual force within them—magic swords, if you will. As the story progresses further through “Journey To The Black City” into my new “After…