2010-04-01

Without altering style, I brought the Director's Cut as was originally envisioned from my very own eyes. The Ultra Violence genre was born.

2010-04-02

If seen during ECW or as a part of some video game, chances were that SSC would credibly reproduce the move with a believable realism.

2010-04-03

All of those hours spent watching Samurai Sunday movies were not lost on me, so great care was taken in the choreography of fight sequences.

2010-04-04

isn't a fan of violence for the sake of violence, but Ultra Violence illustrated the seriousness of the situation via gruesome consequences.

2010-04-05

Having spent so much time creating an Action, Non-Science Fiction, and Ultra Violence story, SSC still needed a name worthy of the effort.

2010-04-06

SpaceStation Colt was already claimed because of the book I wrote in 1989, plus this SSC was different and better - requiring its own title.

2010-04-07

Naming SSC involved a priceless (repeatable) college story. My next-door, dorm room neighbor talked me out of the first title I had.

2010-04-08

SSC was slated to be SpaceStation Colt: Insurrection, but as the fates of groupthink would have it, Star Trek had a film by the same name.

2010-04-09

Ironically, they were both coming out at about the same time as well, so Insurrection wouldn't have worked, and I was hungry for ideas.

2010-04-10

Back to the neighbor, he was taking some Latin course and told me about a cool phrase where rulers were erased from existence and record.

2010-04-11

Shame on me for not checking out the source, but my neighbor said that he was sure it was called Damnitio Exeum. It was good enough for me.

2010-04-12

is glad that we were both wrong back then because SpaceStation Colt: Damnitio Exeum possesses its own ring while standing of its own accord.

2010-04-13

Damnatio memoriae was the correct phrase, but its meaning did not fit the storyline of SSC. Damnitio Exeum was no less powerful a concept.

2010-04-14

In that, the naming of SSC was not considered a mistake, and I had over ten years to change it between college and now if I thought it was.

2010-04-15

loves words and might have become a philologist if he had it to do over again. Apparently, somebody was responsible for making this all up.

2010-04-16

But there are times when socially-accepted words don't fit, and you must deviate to capture the emotion of what you're trying to get across.

2010-04-17

The song Lane Navachi by Lunascape is a prime example of this, and I applauded the concept as it affirmed much of what I believe creatively.

2010-04-18

Taking this concept espoused by the title of Damnitio Exeum plus extending it to the characters and storyline makes for dynamic literature.

2010-04-19

So I've written extensively on what went into the mechanics of SpaceStation Colt: Damnitio Exeum, but what was the actual story about?

2010-04-20

The cover says, "A lesson in human nature the universe won't soon forget" implying the protagonists' response to adversity is pretty stark.

2010-04-21

But everybody's story does that. In order to separate SSC from all the rest, it was necessary to write this from a heuristic point of view.

2010-04-22

looks back on SSC and smiles because the protagonists had no idea of what was going on. So, neither did the readers - along for the ride.

2010-04-23

It wasn't irresponsible writing, and I go back and forth on whether this was just me in my naïveté, but there was no denying the rawness.

2010-04-24

would submit that it made the protagonists' responses that much more genuine because they were just about as freaked-out as the reader!

2010-04-25

Except, the characters experienced this adversity firsthand. Think about how it is when you go through life without all of the answers.

2010-04-26

Why should the reader get some sort of additional insight? There was no additional insight to be had (or deservedly given) at that point.

2010-04-27

In a trilogy, you can technically only do this once, so I wrote the story like that when it would have the most impact - at the beginning.

2010-04-28

did this in a manner that tells the story of a thoroughly fleshed out universe but brings the reader in right after it had started.

2010-04-29

It's hard to sum SSC up other than to say 'it's hard to sum SSC up'. Sometimes the elevator (pitch) can't reach the level of the story.

2010-04-30

This in no way implied that there was something wrong with the story. There was no forcing it into a category because SSC created its own.