I've had a spare universe rattling around in my brain for quite a few years now. If you follow me on Tumblr, you've heard me refer to it as the Catalyst!verse -- it's mostly been a mental sandbox, a place to file cool aliens and space pirates and exobiology and other original sci-fi stuff. I've done a lot of worldbuilding with it and have developed
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And there's no reason something can't be camp and meta and really fucking thoughtful at the same time. I mean I keep thinking back to some of my favorite pulpy sci-fi things, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, The Automatic Detective and hell, even something like Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titian. They're all ridiculous and all camp and all waaaay deeper than you expect even while playing with Tropes.
If you need plotty bits, I'm here if you want to brainstorm. Plot and ideas are kind of my forte. Places, alien cultures, and world-building not so much.
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Writing stories after they pass 10K is kind of daunting. There's a reason why I only ever tend to finish my shit during nano. I have an epic space opera floating around that's about 4 years in the making that I keep rewriting to change shit. At a certain point I feel like it's best to just go with it even if it just starts with writing scenes from 15 different character's POVs. The weirdest things will slot people into the right place for you.
ETA: And it's nice to hear roommate is doing a bit better even if she's still short of healthy. Scary shit, that.
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Follow your story where it needs to go!
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