Eric Landreneau liked a review for Beneath White Clouds

Even from the start, the very start, you can see the idea. Maybe not specifically, but you know it's there. Eric Landreneau (copied and pasted because there's no way I was gonna get that right) has an idea of what this sci-fi world is, and it's so tight and clean that the writing shines.The visual aspect of everything is described with certainty and flair. The words embed a look that, while it might be different for everyone just like books tend to be, is completely stable and stays with you every step of the way. The personalities and what the POV character George thinks of the world around him is very fun to take in. Then there's a consistently-entertaining sense of humor that comes from an author who clearly gets timing and surprise.A world as solid as an AI-maintained forcefield and Eric Landreneau's (pasted again) well-realized science-fiction ideas make this 100% up my alley, and I encourage others to read through this wonderful preview.

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Eric Landreneau liked a review for Beneath White Clouds

Even from the start, the very start, you can see the idea. Maybe not specifically, but you know it's there. Eric Landreneau (copied and pasted because there's no way I was gonna get that right) has an idea of what this sci-fi world is, and it's so tight and clean that the writing shines.The visual aspect of everything is described with certainty and flair. The words embed a look that, while it might be different for everyone just like books tend to be, is completely stable and stays with you every step of the way. The personalities and what the POV character George thinks of the world around him is very fun to take in. Then there's a consistently-entertaining sense of humor that comes from an author who clearly gets timing and surprise.A world as solid as an AI-maintained forcefield and Eric Landreneau's (pasted again) well-realized science-fiction ideas make this 100% up my alley, and I encourage others to read through this wonderful preview.

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Eric Landreneau liked a review for Beneath White Clouds

Even from the start, the very start, you can see the idea. Maybe not specifically, but you know it's there. Eric Landreneau (copied and pasted because there's no way I was gonna get that right) has an idea of what this sci-fi world is, and it's so tight and clean that the writing shines.The visual aspect of everything is described with certainty and flair. The words embed a look that, while it might be different for everyone just like books tend to be, is completely stable and stays with you every step of the way. The personalities and what the POV character George thinks of the world around him is very fun to take in. Then there's a consistently-entertaining sense of humor that comes from an author who clearly gets timing and surprise.A world as solid as an AI-maintained forcefield and Eric Landreneau's (pasted again) well-realized science-fiction ideas make this 100% up my alley, and I encourage others to read through this wonderful preview.

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"What?" you ask after opening your inbox. "What what what? An update from Beneath White Clouds? But it’s a dead project!" You stroke your chin in baffled wonder, girding your loins for the coming upheaval. "What is this?"

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See what I did there? Yep. Prose in second person. Just felt the urge to stretch that particular brain-muscle.

So hello one and all. I am writing this update to lay the groundwork for zombifying the heck out of this dead project. It’s voo-doo time! Why? Well, I started receiving some of the Inkshares and Quill projects I backed and they’re good, they’re outside the norm, they excite me, they have re-invigorated my interest in the idea of Inkshares. Bunch of paradigm-busting geeky punks.

I’ve heard it said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice but expecting different results. But who cares? I’m gonna do it again! I’m putting on my Quixote pants and revving up for another Inkshares drive! And this time, I have a plan!

What plan?

Well, I plan to run the crowdfunding campaign with a modicum of preparation. Prepare to talk. Prepare for outreach. Prep for updates. Prep for games, prizes, funstuff! Stuff what’s fun and cool. Or, as Rishi Bee once said, "fucool," which sounds like an insult, but assuredly is not.

I’ve got things to do to make this work. Groovy things. But groovin’ voodoo takes time. I tentatively expect to hit the go button on the new campaign in August-ish.

The purpose of this update is to ping my first-run followers. PING! I’m sounding the depths. Imagine you’re in a submarine, all cramped corridors and low-hanging conduits, creaking noises, the crushing weight of thousands of feet of water hanging like an obese lurgy of doom overhead. PING!

If you’re diggin’ on the notion of Beneath White Clouds charging ahead for a Quill or Inkshares publication, then PING back. By which I mean "like" this update.

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