As if the novel I’m fiddling with didn’t quite seem real enough, the Sun decided to provide some uncomfortable encouragement with this. A powerful solar flare that erupted Thursday (Nov. 3) from a huge blemish on the sun’s surface has been classified as an X1.9 flare, ranking it in among the most powerful types of storms [...]

I’ve got the first five chapters of my novel outlined and think I’ll be finishing up the opening sequence of events this weekend. While the larger theme of man against his environment in the absence of the technology he has become dependent on will pervade this book as it does in most books of this [...]

Thanks to a little encouragement here—and the fact I can’t seem to get the idea out of my head—I’ve started plotting out some ideas behind the novel I want to write. I’ve a rough bullet-point outline of the first four chapters, and have already run into an interesting moral theme that I’ve run into in [...]

I’m been toying with the idea of writing a novel for the last few months or so, or rather, the idea has been toying with me. As a reader I tend to get on genre benders (note I said genre, not gender, Chaz) and devour everything I can get my hands on by a specific [...]