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Aug. 30th, 2007 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesOK - I've found my true home. Gay Sci Fi Nerds
Due to the Haworth sell-off, I don't think my gay space opera will be finding an anthology in the near future, I've heard nothing from the editor, and nothing from the company. It wasn't contracted, and Greg said that he was planning to put it into "Distant Horizons 2" so we are talking a long long time in the future - if ever. So... I thought - as I've already written another short story with the same characters - I might do a novel with them, perhaps a short story adventure per chapter - vaguely moving along an underlining plot - but each story standing in its own right. Kind of like a television series, I suppose. Could be an interesting project to do. Means also that I won't get mired into a novel, and I can dip in and out of it. And when it comes to Erastes and sci-fi, we are talking space opera, so there's less Sci and more Fi if you get me. I don't do maths, or physics and according to Heinlein, that makes me nothing better than a simian who has learned not to mess in the house. Anyway, that's for a future project. *G*
Film Night: No Reservations - Catherine Zeta Jones. AVOID. Truly bad. Rom-com with no Rom and no Com. Chick flick to make you sick. So so AWFUL. CZJ - i've yet to see you in a film that I like. Come back here and learn your trade properly, perhaps.
Due to the Haworth sell-off, I don't think my gay space opera will be finding an anthology in the near future, I've heard nothing from the editor, and nothing from the company. It wasn't contracted, and Greg said that he was planning to put it into "Distant Horizons 2" so we are talking a long long time in the future - if ever. So... I thought - as I've already written another short story with the same characters - I might do a novel with them, perhaps a short story adventure per chapter - vaguely moving along an underlining plot - but each story standing in its own right. Kind of like a television series, I suppose. Could be an interesting project to do. Means also that I won't get mired into a novel, and I can dip in and out of it. And when it comes to Erastes and sci-fi, we are talking space opera, so there's less Sci and more Fi if you get me. I don't do maths, or physics and according to Heinlein, that makes me nothing better than a simian who has learned not to mess in the house. Anyway, that's for a future project. *G*
Film Night: No Reservations - Catherine Zeta Jones. AVOID. Truly bad. Rom-com with no Rom and no Com. Chick flick to make you sick. So so AWFUL. CZJ - i've yet to see you in a film that I like. Come back here and learn your trade properly, perhaps.
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Date: 2007-08-31 04:36 am (UTC)I started my own gay space opera, and I have an outline, a list of characters, a synopsis and the first five pages. I think my fear of not knowing the science is stopping me, too. The Star Wars books that impress me the most are the ones that make the space dog fights feel realistic. Oh, and Aaron Allston's characters rocked. He's awesome.
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Date: 2007-08-31 06:16 am (UTC)It's the science that puts me off, a little too - I'm such a Heinlein fangirl and he blends the opera with the maths so well, but I am afraid that I will just have "Kyr punched the button, the ship changed course"....
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Date: 2007-08-31 06:18 am (UTC):))
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Date: 2007-08-31 06:23 am (UTC)this is far too early. Lili got me up at 630....
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Date: 2007-08-31 10:29 am (UTC)Of course, this year I have to finish the second half; 50,000 words only got me half way. But it was fun. And I'll certainly read yours if you finish it.