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Last Exordium book out . . .
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sartorias shares the background of the wonderfully inventive space opera series, Exordium, that she had me own dear hubby wrote back in the '90s and then revised for Book View Cafe.Originally posted by
sartorias at Last Exo book out . . .Catching up in the sweltering heat, with a house full of people. But the house guests are from Arizona and Utah respectively, so it's not like they have any better weather at home. (Though they probably have air conditioning, which we can't afford to run.)
Anyway, the last volume of Exordium is out.
This particular book journey began in 1977, first as a film project. Which nearly sold, but got lost in the fallout of the big strike of 1980.
So we went to books. The first edition was written on Selectric, and over the years went through various rapidly changing computer iterations, both us getting married, Dave's divorce and his subsequent finding Deborah, his wonderful wife, my having two kids, our careers changing. Many house moves, Dave from next door in our Hollywood apartment complex to ten miles away, to fifty, to 300 miles away. Family deaths.
We rewrote it as retired people, with a whole lot more experience under our belts, and more time for consideration. The tech Dave predicted still holds, though we finessed how certain bits are used (time proving once again that tech does not instantly, or simply, change how we live, which is why many historical novelists get retrofitting wrong). The social and cultural interactions that I had invented have in many respects come to pass, though there were eyebrow twitching artifacts.
So now that's done.
But there's more! At Book View Cafe various writers have been offering writing hacks. Mine is up today--the easy way to map your world, plus instantly figured out time zones!
And finally, a couple of what I thought were really good writing posts. Here, from someone I knew when he was small--at four, he entertained me hugely by telling me the entire story of Lord of the Rings, and now he is a paterfamilias, and wise enough to be aware of his own happiness.
Finally, over at Harry Connolly's LiveJournal David B. Coe reflects about writing as two books come out. I really like his writing--he does complex characters. I haven't caught up with the Thieftaker series only because of So Many Books syndrome, but that means one of these days I'll get to fall on them in one F. S.
Anyway, the last volume of Exordium is out.
This particular book journey began in 1977, first as a film project. Which nearly sold, but got lost in the fallout of the big strike of 1980.
So we went to books. The first edition was written on Selectric, and over the years went through various rapidly changing computer iterations, both us getting married, Dave's divorce and his subsequent finding Deborah, his wonderful wife, my having two kids, our careers changing. Many house moves, Dave from next door in our Hollywood apartment complex to ten miles away, to fifty, to 300 miles away. Family deaths.
We rewrote it as retired people, with a whole lot more experience under our belts, and more time for consideration. The tech Dave predicted still holds, though we finessed how certain bits are used (time proving once again that tech does not instantly, or simply, change how we live, which is why many historical novelists get retrofitting wrong). The social and cultural interactions that I had invented have in many respects come to pass, though there were eyebrow twitching artifacts.
So now that's done.
But there's more! At Book View Cafe various writers have been offering writing hacks. Mine is up today--the easy way to map your world, plus instantly figured out time zones!
And finally, a couple of what I thought were really good writing posts. Here, from someone I knew when he was small--at four, he entertained me hugely by telling me the entire story of Lord of the Rings, and now he is a paterfamilias, and wise enough to be aware of his own happiness.
Finally, over at Harry Connolly's LiveJournal David B. Coe reflects about writing as two books come out. I really like his writing--he does complex characters. I haven't caught up with the Thieftaker series only because of So Many Books syndrome, but that means one of these days I'll get to fall on them in one F. S.
