Category Archives: Long Dark

Storyminded

Two things bring on storymind tonight: a cool new blog called Science in My Fiction by my pals at Crossed Genres; & the story of murder, an interstellar spaceship, & Lord Shiva that I'm about to start working on.
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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in.
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My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-01: NaNoWriMo 2009 kickoff #2, the midnight write-in

Kicking off NaNoWriMo 2009 with a midnight write-in at Denny's. I was writing some Long Dark material about a data trader whose arriving, for the first time in her life, on a planet (Earth). I reckon she grew up in the asteroid belt.
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Taking life support for granted

Pina Chomko: s a story character in my novel-in-progress Cold. She's not like us: she grew up in outer space. Her dream: to take for granted all the life support services that nature provides for free -- just like us.
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Biospherics

More on my evolving knowledge about closed ecological life support systems (CELSS) for use in my novels-in-progress projects Long Dark & Cold: biospherics is a handy new term for what it's really all about.
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My October reading list

What I'm reading, or at least looking at, in the rundown to NaNoWriMo 2009: space exploration, growing food in space, consensus government, & more. I'll be writing Long Dark, about the people making the long journey between the stars to colonize another solar system.
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October plans

October. Change of seasons, change of gears: I'll be resuming my title of occasional political blogger by becoming a far less occasional writer. Plans for October include gearing up for NaNoWriMo in November.
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Eating (& breathing & crapping) in outer space

Research notes on closed ecosystems in outer space, for "Long Dark," a story I'm trying to write in the same story universe as my 2007 NaNoWriMo "novel" Cold.
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Cold, Crossed Genres, & Flash homophobia

Writing a story in the Cold story universe for SF/F magazine Crossed Genres -- while Crossed Genres has an encounter with Flash Fiction Online's homophobic editorial policies.
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