Category: Paracosm

  • Spaceship Creation Time

    Spaceship Creation Time

    I didn’t accomplish much writing this weekend, but I did spend a lot of time designing spaceships for Peregrina. I can already tell you I’m definitely going for soft science fiction. My fiance is an engineer, and I’ve always been more of a biologist, historian, and geology-type scientist. The hard math is a hard pass.

  • Small Level Story Structure

    Small Level Story Structure

    Last week, I rambled about a metaphor in story structure and how I want the story’s big picture to progress. Today I’ll hopefully provide a more legitimate theory and less abstract thought process about the parts of the beginning, middle, and end. I can’t promise to stay away from metaphors, though. 

  • A Metaphor in Story Structure

    A Metaphor in Story Structure

    Have you ever considered that Wednesdays as the middle day of the week are like the mild build or second act of the week? The middle of the story can be challenging to achieve. First, you have to keep the reader’s attention and use it to propel a story forward. Wednesday also begins the sagging…

  • Welcome to Paracosm

    Welcome to Paracosm

    For this post, I thought I might do a brief introduction to my current project. It’s still in the very rough first stages. Still, I plan on using it as an example in some ways in future posts, so this is an excellent way to introduce you (the reader) to the world of Paracosm.