Month: October 2012

The scene: Earth forces are assaulting Aristillus and a PK snatch team is trying to capture the Boardroom Group. John is back from his hike...

A few e-friends that I met via Prometheus Unbound and I chat in a private Google Group about anarcho-capitalism and writing. I was questioned about...

Dewitt’s slate beeped as a pop-up from the airlock administration interface appeared. “Remote Maintenance Request: tier 2 admin attempt to set state to ‘offline’. Approve?”...

== Outside Goldwater vault, level four, Aristillus, Lunar Nearside Matthew Dewitt hit the button for the hazard lights, slowed the rented cherry picker to a...

Blue nodded. “Checklist four.” John called it up in his display. “Checklist four, bullet point one. AG to three. Ramp it up slowly, please.” Blue...

Duncan cut in “What are you guys talking about?” Max said “Yeah, what ARE you talking about?” John pointed to the specifications of the old...

A second daily sample: — Duncan spoke up. “I wonder if Rex’s hack worked?” Blue raised his eyebrows. “We’ll see soon enough.” Max reached down...

I’m playing with the idea of posting one small snippet each day when I’m done with my daily 2,500 words of revision. Here’s my first:...

In my novel Hugh Haig, son of Senator Linda Haig, watches an episode of PBS web-casting and is calmed and reassured by the same old...

Draft 1 was “getting a story down”. It ran to 160,000 words. Draft 2 was “fixing the huge plot holes, filling in missing bits, making...