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Scott Michael Decker

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Scott Michael Decker, MSW, is an author by avocation and a social worker by trade. He is the author of twenty-plus novels in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres, dabbling among the sub-genres of space opera, biopunk, spy-fi, and sword and sorcery. His biggest fantasy is wishing he were published. His fifteen years of experience working with high-risk populations is relieved only by his incisive humor. Formerly interested in engineering, he's now tilting at the windmills he once aspired to build. Asked about the MSW after his name, the author is adamant it stands for Masters in Social Work, and not "Municipal Solid Waste," which he spreads pretty thick as well. His favorite quote goes, "Scott is a social work novelist, who never had time ...more

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Scott Michael Decker Just write.

Be as the empty cup in the Zen Buddhist parable. Set aside any preconceived notions of how much, how often, how many words, how many pages.…moreJust write.

Be as the empty cup in the Zen Buddhist parable. Set aside any preconceived notions of how much, how often, how many words, how many pages.

A mountain looks taller when viewed from the base. A journey of a thousand pages begins with a single word.

Just start writing and don't stop.

Don't stop to edit, don't stop to show it to anyone, don't stop to type it (if you're writing by hand), don't stop for any reason, even writer's block.

The most successful way to address writer's block is simply to write, even if it seems a Sisyphean task, where the words want to roll right back over you from the high hills where you've pushed them.

If need be, write without thinking, and in the suspense of reason, the channel opens. Be the open channel and let the words spill forth. They know where they're supposed to be.

Just write, and the words will write themselves.(less)

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Scott Michael Decker My WIP (writer-talk for Work In Progress) is "Edifice Abandoned," a science-fiction novel about the Great Zimbabwe and similar stone monuments on the …moreMy WIP (writer-talk for Work In Progress) is "Edifice Abandoned," a science-fiction novel about the Great Zimbabwe and similar stone monuments on the planet Achernar Tertius. Cut off for a millennium by a collapse in interstellar travel, the Shona people revert to a pre-literate, Iron-Age society. They build massive cities of stone and then inexplicably abandon them.

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"Sci-fi: Inbound from space on an interstellar flight, Archeologist Nosuma Okande sees far more ancient sites on Achernar Tertius to excavate than the Institute has on record. Setting out to unearth these sites proves more of a challenge than she realizes, bringing her into conflict with local villages and ancient traditions, and with a shadowy force called the Madziva Mitupo, the Hippopotamus Totem."(less)

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	Edifice Abandoned (Alien Mysteries Book 1) 3.81 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The new novel, Protoplasm, is going well, but even now, 38k words and 138 pp deep, it's still a toss-off.
How, you ask, can something so daunting as writing a novel—or painting a portrait, penning a book of poetry, writing a screenplay, composing a symphony, or making a movie—ever be considered a toss-off?
Well, an acquaintance taking an art class said one of the assignments was to compose a piece Read more of this blog post »

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