In our final character review of this summer, I get to talk to Zito, the fixer of just about anything, who I sort of modelled on Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. But then I used that in the Paradisio flash fiction
Friday Character Interview: Big Pete and the Swede
This time travel stuff is weird, but tiring. I arrive at the spacedock of Pleasant Valley, one of the synchronous third planets of the sun Viridium, without really knowing how, and satisfy myself I am some 800 years in my
#FridayFlash Fiction | The Inspector Calls
Today’s challenge from Chuck is to start with a stranger at the door and write 1000 words. I fancied a little more Viridian System backstory – you may find referring to my world-building post on Ulric useful, but it’s not important.
#IWSG – is ‘it’s okay’ good enough?
This month’s Insecure Writers’ Support Group gives me a chance to talk about pulling a published book and revising it. Not necessarily the technical side of it – more the emotional bit. That is what the IWSG is all about really,
#FridayFlash Fiction | Return to Sender
Back to Chuck Wendig‘s very creative prompts today. I don’t know where he finds these random prompt generators on the internet (maybe I should google ‘random writing prompt generator’ and find out), but this one gave us two descriptions of
Report from Camp NaNoWriMo
The price of doing both Camp NaNoWriMo AND the A to Z Challenge in April was that my reading time disappeared completely and my email answering time was sadly neglected. In fact, I only dealt with urgent emails. When I
#FridayFlash Fiction | The White Rose of York
Friday is flash fiction day, and I’ve restricted myself to just over 800 words to bring you a piece of Viridian System series backstory, which readers of The Perihelix have been asking for. Well, they wanted to know more about
V is for the Viridian System
Well, today V hits Viridium, the spur for my world-building theme for this year’s A to Z. I have a detailed description here which is an edited version of that on the Viridian system website. Then I’ve answered my own question
U is for Ulric
Ulric is a planet within the Imperium, although it is not a planet, but a large moon, orbiting the planet Daedalus, which orbits the star Barnard at 1AU, the same distance as the Earth from the Sun. Barnard, as it
#FridayFlash Fiction | Sunset Strip – Elder Council
S is for Sunset Strip, the binary planet of the Viridian System whose major industry is leisure and tourism. Whenever I write flash fiction for any worlds in the Viridian System at present I’m always thinking of what I’m writing
Q is for Quadrants – mainly Alpha and Delta
My theme this year is ‘world-building’ and for Q I’m going as far as the whole galaxy! In my Viridian System series, I decided to define the structure of my Milky Way galaxy, just in case my characters decided to locate
#FridayFlash Fiction | G’Nauss is the Winter of our Discontent
My Friday flash fiction feature needs to fit with G for a world of my own – in this case G’Nauss. G’Nauss is a Federation planet known for its champagne – well, that was the main reason for inventing it
Farsight and the Federation
Welcome to my world-building themed challenge for this year on F day. I’m dithering over whether to talk about Farsight or the Federation, so I’ll do a snippet on each! Farsight One of the most important worlds in my Viridian System
A is for the #AtoZChallenge #FridayFlash World-building Mash-up
Greetings, A2Zers everywhere, as well as to my flash fiction followers. It’s April 1st, and no fooling, it’s the A to Z Challenge again. Since I’m also doing Camp NaNoWriMo, to help me get through my writing schedule this year,
#Fridayflash Fiction | All you can eat
Chuck gave us a simple challenge this week – pick one of the seven deadly sins, and go for it. So here are 1000 words on Kaa Birith’s hospitality at work. The Kaa is a senator of the Imperium, and