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July 19, 2017
The Alien Element – Chapter 3
Snippet 3 from The Alien Element
Translocator Trilogy Book Two
by M.G. Herron
Copyright 2017, All Rights Reserved, yadda yadda
3
Not Quite Right
“Reuben!” Amon shouted over the electric thrum of the Translocator.
The clamor of a forklift offloading boxes with a metallic clatter swallowed his voice even through his earplugs. The boxes crashed and clanked as two engineers wrestled them onto the platform, through the gap in the concentric sphere of blue-green alloy rings. Filled with steel ar...
The Alien Element – Snippet 3
Snippet 3 from The Alien Element
Translocator Trilogy Book Two
by M.G. Herron
Copyright 2017, All Rights Reserved, yadda yadda
3
Not Quite Right
“Reuben!” Amon shouted over the electric thrum of the Translocator.
The clamor of a forklift offloading boxes with a metallic clatter swallowed his voice even through his earplugs. The boxes crashed and clanked as two engineers wrestled them onto the platform, through the gap in the concentric sphere of blue-green alloy rings. Filled with steel ar...
July 18, 2017
Reading: The Prometheus Project
The Prometheus Project by Steve White (Science fiction, 2005)
I loved the cover, so I bought it. More proof that good covers sell books. Never heard of Steve White before, just exploring sci-fi based on artwork and concepts that appeal to me.
The Prometheus Project opens with a scene where the newly elected president meets the sitting president to discuss the transfer of power. There’s a lot of smoldering enmity. After the banter, the sitting president says, there’s something you need to kno...
July 17, 2017
Having fun with Clone Wars
I discovered Clone Wars was on Netflix and took to Twitter to share the discovery.
Enjoy my shenanigans
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July 15, 2017
White space
I’ve been plotting and world building and revising the cowriting novel project for the past 4 weeks, ever since I turned in The Alien Element. Yesterday, I got to the end of revisions and hit white space.
And today I got to write new words.
It’s like emerging from a dense forest into a sunny glade. I can breathe again!
I love writing on the whole, but revising is my least favorite part. That’s why I’m a planner for the longer stuff. I make a pl...
July 12, 2017
The Alien Element – Snippet 2
Snippet 2 from The Alien Element
Translocator Trilogy Book Two
by M.G. Herron
Copyright 2017, All Rights Reserved, yadda yadda
2
First Flight Back
Eliana hurried across the campus of the University of Texas, sweat gathering at her collar of her blouse and under her arms. Today was the day of her final guest lecture at the University, and she was late for her own class.
The leather messenger bag she purchased when she had been offered the guest lecturer position at her alma mater earlier th...
July 11, 2017
Halftime huddle on my 2017 writing goals
It’s halfway through the year, so I thought it would be useful to take a step back and get some perspective on the writing goals I set myself in January. Especially after the setback of the July-August challenge.
2017 writing goalsThe 2017 writing goals document I wrote in January is ten pages long. I decided not to blog about it at the time, which I regret. But I can’t go back in time so I’ll summarize it for you.
I had two main goals:
Publish new fiction every month in 2017 Write a lot of...July 10, 2017
Copyedits in for The Alien Element
Yesterday afternoon, my editor got back in touch with copyedits for The Alien Element. Right on schedule!
I hustled to get them all entered today. This is a simple but slow process where I take the changes back in to Scrivener, which I’ll use to produce the ebook version.
It was after dinner, nearly 11pm before I was done. Then I went out for a long walk to stretch my stiff back and legs.
A solid day. Tiring, but productive. Good to know I can do copyedits (and some minor revisions) for a ful...
July 9, 2017
Reading: The City and The Stars
The City and The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke. Science fiction, 1956.
I’m still on a kick to catch up on the mid-century masters of science fiction—stuff that, by choice or by chance, I’ve never been exposed to. When I saw this one in Half Price Books with the awesome cover I had to have it.
Appropriately aged, don’t you think?
It took me a while to read this book, and even longer to write about it. It’s good. I just needed time to let it all sink in.
Here’s the thing. It starts slow. A billi...
July 8, 2017
A literal Parthenon of books
Enjoyed this so much I had to share.
After all, this blog is all about books. Books to read, and the work that goes into the books.
Thanks to the artist, Marta Minujín, who made this art out of books.
Source: Artist Uses 100,000 Banned Books To Build A Full-Size Parthenon At Historic Nazi Book Burning Site
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