Sorry for not updating recently. I’ve been working on my drawer full of stories and taking them from that first-draft-stage into something I can polish enough to submit to publications.
The first batch of stories I am working on are all loosely connected into a larger “universe” I am building. That being the first wave of colony ships into space. Each one represents a place on this timeline and a novel size story is book ended by the last two of them. So, in my perfect world where I actually finish all that I start – yeah right - I envision a series of 1,000 word stories, a few 5,000 word stories and one novel. The Novel is the last in the timeline with all the shorts before it being the back history
The one I am working on now started out life as a 1,000 word flash story and needs more room to breathe. It will end up being about 5,000 words when I am done. It introduces the first generational ship out into space, before the invention of faster than light travel. The cool part of this story, besides the ingrown society that develops, is what they do for recreation! They are traveling in a “spin ship.” That is how they generate their gravity. This means that in the center of the ship there is no gravity. The children growing up on the ship have never lived on earth’s gravity; their bones are longer, with less mass. Secretly, they’ve built wings that they strap to their arms and use them to glide and fly in those few hundred feet of weightlessness in the center of the ship.
Does that sound fun to you? Yeah, me too. Anyway, that’s why I’ve been missing from my blog.
Sometimes it's nice to see life from someone else's point of view. I am a mother, writer and amateur photographer. This is what the view looks like from where I am standing.
