Entry for G&S Hard Science Contest: An exploration of how magic could be explained by science in a world where witches, wizards, and dragons not only exist, but thrive. Science-based chapters interspersed with world-based stories.
Here’s a little window into the writing room in my mind...
When I envision a scene, I think of my novel as a comic book. I want to tell my story in key scenes, with a dramatic image in mind, with succinct text that you could fit into a thought or word balloon. I picture landscape views to set the scene, middle distance views to tell the story, and close/ups of emotional faces or depicting an action. I try to use real-life conversational language that is true to the character.
So there you go. Some of the gears in my brain-box.
Peace!
Ferd. :-)
Making good use of my few days off, I’m on a freakin’ roll!
I just realized...
ONE MONTH from today is the publication day for Ageless!
"And the crowd goes wild! Ageless is an Inkshares production, meaning that hundreds of people voted this book into existence. And with good reason, the hook is irresistible to we ephemeral folk who shuffle off our mortal coil. (Or should I go with ’out, out brief candle,’ even Shakespeare knew mortality was a dead end.)
Aless been on the run for her whole life, living in the shadows, from the day she was liberated from an underground lab. The Nazis had her, the CIA wants her. Ageless careens from decade to decade, and characters grow old and die while Aless is forced to hide her secret from everyone. Will she ever be able to stop running?
Filled with surprises of the ’wow’ sort, there’s even a little romance. (There’s also a scene in a lab the squeamish may want to skim. Fair warning.) This crowdfunded debut book, and winner of the Sword & Laser Collection Contest, is a fresh take on a ageless theme.
I received this book in exchange for an honest review."
- DJ ZipperGirl
