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I’ve done hallucinogens. I’ve meditated. I’ve stopped every elderly person that bears a passing resemblance to Yoda and begged them for to turn me into a cyborg-warrior. Nothing worked. Yet one day, I’m reading Echo, and an eerie light from my eReader washes over me. I look in the mirror, and I’ve just been turned…
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Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel
oooOOOOHHHHH MCBAMSKIS! Whoever bought a copy of Echo last night, THANK YOU!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 All of you guys who have suffered my growing pains as a beginning author, rest assured I am hard at work trying to make my story as smooth and entertaining as possible. THANK YOU!!!!!!
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Musings
To me, the key to art is a clear and cutting perception of a conceptual core, followed by iterating that perception as skillfully as possible. Actually, I think that can be applied to everything.
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Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel
“Legs were normally springs; muscles, tendons, and ligaments worked together to partially recycle the energy of each step. For the man doing the buddy carry, exhaustion had turned his legs into dumb, untrustworthy weights. Nothing spring-like about them. Each step required him to spend the familiar effort of lifting a leg, but also the unfamiliar…
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Musings
In writing or any other art, it’s essential to retain the capability for unrestrained messiness, to encourage an overwhelming free flow of ideas. But it’s just as important to be capable of being clean and organized, so people can understand the formless richness I’ve tapped.
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Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel
I’m at a bar, trying to watch the game, minding my own damn business. A touchdown is scored. Raucous cheering. I get deluged with backslaps, and a guy yelling in my ear, “Bro! Did you see that???” (“Bro” Ugh.) Out of annoyance I flash my eReader, open to Echo, in the guy’s face. Quantum tech,…
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Musings
I found myself realizing how inherently boring literature is. In the end, what is it but black squiggles on a pale surface? So my duty as a writer is then to painstakingly arrange these squiggles as best as I know how, and to transport my audience as viscerally as I possibly can.
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Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel: News/Updates
Word Count, Volume 2: 59277 (almost 200 pages! Woohoo! It’s roughly 30k words per 100 pages) News: First off, those who have been so amazingly kind as to leave Echo a good review, Thank You! Melissa, Barbara, Ian, [anonymous], and now? Lisa! Thanks bunches, Lisa! She mentioned that it was rough in the beginning but…
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Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel: News
Word Count, Volume 2: 54660 News: I’m hunting down that 60k word count! Going to try to keep up the pace through Turkey Day, but we’ll see. Man, I’m just as busy with errands on holiday as I’m off of it! That’s life, I guess. To all you writers, I wish you inspired drafting and…
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Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel: News
OK, 20th of the month! All of you know the benefits of social media and the internet, how convenient it is, etc. I’m sure some of you know that it also can be an unhealthy obsession. Addictive chemical responses in the brain are measured in overuse of social media. Love me that little red number…
Kent Wayne 