Tag Archives: Cold notes

Writing life

By Mel Green | Published: Tue, 16 February 2010
A writer's progress report: reading up for the design of Consensus in Cold & Long Dark; work on "Trading Shirts"; revision of "Itch" from Finer.
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Building Consensus

By Mel Green | Published: Wed, 10 February 2010
How editing Wikipedia & a fictional Martian constitutional convention influenced the Consensus government in my novel(s)-to-be. Yep, & consensus would be a better way to run our own world too, yep.
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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

By Mel Green | Published: Sat, 6 February 2010
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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Buddha in the coffee shop

By Mel Green | Published: Sat, 2 January 2010
My Side Street Saturday included an encounter with a handcarved Vietnamese Buddha of white-grey marble, which its owner hopes to sell as a fundraiser for Veterans for Peace. A little about Job, integrity, cold, & low atmospheric pressure, too.
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Taking life support for granted

By Mel Green | Published: Wed, 14 October 2009
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

By Mel Green | Published: Mon, 12 October 2009
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

By Mel Green | Published: Wed, 7 October 2009
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

By Mel Green | Published: Fri, 2 October 2009
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

By Mel Green | Published: Tue, 29 September 2009
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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Terraforming notes

By Mel Green | Published: Wed, 3 October 2007
A few notes about what terraforming is. A terraforming project on an extrasolar planet is the context of my SF novel-in-progress "Cold."
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