New adventure

When I retired as a Physicist in 2014, I started my writing ‘career’ with a textbook on Physics, (“Humane Physics – No Student was Harmed in Writing this Book”) and that kept me busy for a year. I enjoyed the process of writing and publishing, but it was over and I had to try something else. Next, I published my poetry collection (“The Prism of my Mind”) and that was fun too, but didn’t use up much of the liberated time, so I experimented with writing short stories. A few got published and one, eventually, morphed into a novella. The reviews I received for one of the short stories (“House Arrest”) and the novella (“Time Scope”) got positive reviews and many of the critics suggested that I should develop both into a novel because there was so much more story to tell based on the original idea and characters. I have now published my first novel based on the short story and vowed never again to write another long tale. It’s just too much work. However, sitting in the car at the parking lot, waiting for my wife, it suddenly occurred to me how the novella could be turned into a novel in a way that would be a direct continuation of the story, without having to change anything. Once I had this idea, it just wouldn’t go away and now, in spite of my determination of never doing it again, I am caught up with the fever of creating another world. It will be an escape story from our dismal planet (without leaving Earth) into a sane environment. It will still be sci-fi, using the Time Scope as its catalyst and the same characters (plus a few new ones) but it won’t be a cake-walk for these people. There will be lots of drama and suspense, but, as always, it will have a positive ending. That’s all I am prepared to reveal at the moment and now back to the keyboard and to my coffee and red-wine soaked universe.