2010-06-01

didn't want to be lulled into telling stories only from protagonists' narrow perspectives when he had a universe of diatribes to pull from.

2010-06-02

...which reminds me: From one author to the next, if you ever have trouble coming up with cool character names, check your spam filter. :)

2010-06-03

would like to do first-person in the future, but with this many characters, he needed the decentralized focus of third-person omniscient.

2010-06-04

This was the third, main thing that SSC was about, and it was laced with characters - some made up; some from real life; and many, a homage.

2010-06-05

So while I'm off writing novels, my original claim to fame - my music is made to suffer, right? Never. Novels were made for soundtracks.

2010-06-06

'Epic Novels that Read like Movies' wasn't just a tagline. SpaceStation Colt is on some 2.39:1 type stuff with soundtracks to match.

2010-06-07

Cinematography in prose, novel soundtracks, and even book trailers are nothing new. It won't work every time, but when it does, it's great.

2010-06-08

Books can be the equivalent of 'movies with unlimited budgets', so leveraging aspects of movie marketing and presentation was only natural.

2010-06-09

The soundtracks were a nice consolation prize (in a big way) for my hesitance to create audiobooks - mainly a time prioritization decision.

2010-06-10

Anyway, I never stopped collaborating with DJ VoiceCrack. I'm just writing a different kind of word to his increasingly treacherous beatz.

2010-06-11

So almost eleven years later, SSC was released causing nearly a twelve year gap between that and SSC2. It won't take that long for SSC3.

2010-06-12

Many things prevented my moving forward with the SSC series from personal responsibility to contractual obligation to corporate work/life.

2010-06-13

Once that all settled down, I needed to get back into a creative mindset, so an attitude of quiet confidence in my style was called for.

2010-06-14

Quiet confidence was not about humility, modesty, bragging, or boasting. It was about my hunger as a no-name author to type the next word.

2010-06-15

From the Depths of Death in the Midst of Chaos was written at a time when I needed something to root for, and the characters' plight was it.

2010-06-16

SSC2 signified an end to growing pains because those labor pains, long associated with delivering my baby, had now become a labor of love.

2010-06-17

Writing SSC2 wasn't necessarily worth the pain that preceded it, but the story was worth telling, and hard times inspired me to write it.

2010-06-18

The fans also had me on the hook for the wait, but everybody else was sizing me up for talking trash across six months of status updates.

2010-06-19

SSC2 demanded thoroughness of effort. It was the sequel to SSC and the closure to the Zero Universe books. The long length was essential.

2010-06-20

With experience, I could predict the length of my work (prior to having written any words) which helped me to gear up for what was in store.

2010-06-21

Barring editorial constraints, books should be as long as they need to be. SSC2's plot came up short where I first envisioned it ending.

2010-06-22

combined the original ideas of SSC2 and SSC3 together into a behemoth SSC2 where the whole wound up being greater than the sum of its parts.

2010-06-23

Not every book will be that long, but I was comfortable with the flow and pace. Being honest about this during planning saved time later.

2010-06-24

Extending out the endpoints gave me increased storytelling options. In essence, I had the opportunity and an obligation to slow SSC2 down.

2010-06-25

SSC took place across all of three days, but SSC2 was going to span months, so this meant that the characters had a chance to put on a show.

2010-06-26

handpicked the returning characters from SSC as supporting protagonists because of either their hilarity, mystery, symbolism, or potential.

2010-06-27

always desired to delve more deeply into the few surviving characters from SSC and make a good portion of the remaining series about them.

2010-06-28

For those who hadn't survived, I never viewed nor treated their deaths as smears - ultimately reserving my right to resurrect them later on.

2010-06-29

Killing off characters is hard for me because those lives hold meaning. Their sacrifice in the story was a major contribution to the story.

2010-06-30

From living life, I can tell that most deaths are often senseless, but there is absolutely nothing worse than a senselessly written death.