Oh, science fiction.

[starfoozle]

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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[starfoozle]

The more I mull this over, the more I figure I ought to at least give it a try -- going ahead and combining the two ideas, that is. I have very little experience with writing long pieces, and I keep getting spooked by this thing, which is inevitably going to be massive no matter which direction it ends up taking. But those examples are actually really helpful -- that's one of the reasons I loved The Automatic Detective so much, after all. Campy and meta but genuinely good in its own right. Maybe I'll give this a go.

I'm thinking this week I'll sit down and hash out some concrete Rules Of This Universe and see if I can't get an outline of...something...generated. We'll see how this goes.

In the meantime, I dunno if you've seen this, but I've got some info-dumping and quick iPad doodles up on their own sideblog on Tumblr: http://catalystplans.tumblr.com/ I'll be updating it a bunch to keep Roommate (who is still not better but is doing pretty okay all things considered) entertained while she's stuck at home this summer.

I will definitely bounce some ideas off of you in the not-too-distant future.

[last01standing]

(I very much want to read any and all of this.) I stalk your starfoozle blog online on occasion when I'm bored so I've seen some of the doodles but these are all fascinating. (Non humanoid aliens! That actually might make proportional sense!)

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.