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C.J. Stevens
I went to work. The most narcissistic, self-involved manager we have called a meeting, for the entire day.
C.J. Stevens
Tellus Tertius
Same thing (but with my Vampires). Enjoy life, Love, and explore new frontiers. Study Physics. Medicine. Enjoy the wide-open spaces and unspoiled planet.
Same thing (but with my Vampires). Enjoy life, Love, and explore new frontiers. Study Physics. Medicine. Enjoy the wide-open spaces and unspoiled planet.
C.J. Stevens
I read the entire 'Rivers of London' series. Excellent. I read the new Dennis E Taylor 'Outland'. Preordered the new Scalzi and next 'Longmire'. I am reading "Hamilton' after seeing the musical. Getting ready to read 'Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime'. As a Sci-Fi Romance writer, I try to be sure I salt my reading across multiple genres, including hard science. I worry when I talk about some things that something might change: example, everyone in the physics world is working on unseating Einstein with a new theory of gravity. You can never write about science and have that be the end of it, because we are always learning more.
C.J. Stevens
I have heard of this of course, but I am hoping to never have to answer that. I have never had it, and mostly that is because I have four different worlds of stories running through my head. Hypernatutals came first because it was the largest and most complete. The Murder mystery is done in first draft form, and I'll go back to that. I may add to that line, or I may not. There is a second story floating around there that bridges the 'Lonely Dancer' world and the Vampire one. Then there is my superhero story, and it is done in first draft form, but its one that I am not happy with and am waiting for it to resolve its issues in my head. Lastly, there is a 'Vampires in Space' thing, about the future. It unites all of the stories but it's so spoilery for these worlds I will have to be done with everything else first before I go there. All of that means I can write for years yet before I have to deal with this. I hope.
C.J. Stevens
Strong hands.
OK. Again, its something you have to do, so I guess it is that the characters and the stories will leave you alone once you have set them free. That makes room for the next thing they have to say.
OK. Again, its something you have to do, so I guess it is that the characters and the stories will leave you alone once you have set them free. That makes room for the next thing they have to say.
C.J. Stevens
What every writer will say. Write. Write and keep writing, and if you are not happy with it, put it away and write something else, and just keep writing. Invest in a little portable computer and keep it with you so you can write at lunch, and in the park and at the Taproom (I write a lot there....)
C.J. Stevens
As I type this, Conclave, Book 3 is out. Book 4, purity is done in second draft but needs a final few edits for grammar and such. Books five through eight are all in process, as they occurred to me as a second arc. Book eight, in particular, grabbed me by the throat and won't let go, so it will be completed as first draft before I go back and write anything else before it. Book five will be next, and then I will go back and clean up book four to publish it and will have it out before the holidays end. Somewhere in there I will go back and re-write 'Lonely Dancer', with is about Morgan when she was a cop. I make frequent reference to the event in that book, so I need to get it out too.
C.J. Stevens
Writers have to write. I have always written, since age eight. I think Heinlein said it best: "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." Robert A. Heinlein
C.J. Stevens
Conclave is the most recent book out, but so far there are eight in some stage of being written. It started in 2010 when I decided to write Vampire novels that had Vampire that had evolved rather than were magic. My Hypernaturals world is filled with the possible, if not exactly the probable. They are romances, in the sense that all stories about Vampires have some basis in sex. Vampires want you to look into their eyes. They want to seduce you into giving them some blood. I made it so all those things happen, but because Vampires are equipped with pheromones that drive you insane with lust, and fangs that can inject you with a drug far more powerful than sodium pentothal and Rohypnol. Thus, they are Science Fiction Romance. Conclave was written sequentially as part of the first three books. An Arc, not a trilogy.
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