I've been lucky at times, had a bunch of ideas just come together, all I had to do was write them down.
But, too often, it took a lot of work to reach 'critical mass' before I dared begin to write.
My 'Hard SF' tales required some 'handwavium' to get around Einstein's Limit. Although much seems 'artistic licence', there's some genuine geometry beneath the lid. I'd half-remembered the clue, needed many months to track it down.
My 'magic' tale took a lot of research until I had a plausible mechanism. Then it took a great heap of research until I had worked out the logistics. The first draft was sadly lacking, ground to a halt among contradictions and paradox...
Oddly, my Vampire tale was a process of elimination. I progressively discarded all the transmogriflying aspects, found I only needed a very few, almost mundane attributes. After that, the story almost wrote itself as I explored logical consequences..
I've been lucky at times, had a bunch of ideas just come together, all I had to do was write them down.
But, too often, it took a lot of work to reach 'critical mass' before I dared begin to write.
My 'Hard SF' tales required some 'handwavium' to get around Einstein's Limit. Although much seems 'artistic licence', there's some genuine geometry beneath the lid. I'd half-remembered the clue, needed many months to track it down.
My 'magic' tale took a lot of research until I had a plausible mechanism. Then it took a great heap of research until I had worked out the logistics. The first draft was sadly lacking, ground to a halt among contradictions and paradox...
Oddly, my Vampire tale was a process of elimination. I progressively discarded all the transmogriflying aspects, found I only needed a very few, almost mundane attributes. After that, the story almost wrote itself as I explored logical consequences..
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