Archive for the 'Story and Plot' Category



The Game

Published on January 25, 2006

Thought of this on the way into work. I think it could work, this or the previous story about the mech fighter may be the next one I work on. This story asks the questions about the difference between games of war and wars fought like games, and when we lose the distinction.
In the […]


Mech warrior

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I had an idea for a short story, involving some of the character archetypes I’ve thought up. In the future, mechoids (my version of big battle mechs — robots two or three stories high controlled by a single human in the center or head of the bot) are used to patrol cities, fight wars, etc. […]


Writing good stories

Published on March 31, 2005

Just a little note here on some thoughts I’ve had of late. To be a successful writer, I think I should focus on getting a short story published. To do so, I plan to subscribe to some of the sci-fi magazines for a while and read them, enjoy the stories, and take notes on the […]


Things you need for a good story

Published on January 12, 2005

Most are common sense, but I thought it’d be a good exercise for me to sit down and think, ok, if I want to pick up a fantasy novel I’ve written, what do I want in it? This is from the approach of ‘write what you want to read’. My latest novel idea I […]


Space Trader Adventure

Published on November 14, 2004

A group of smugglers/traders. The lead woman is ravishing and confident, her father traded and she now has his old ship, needs repairs but it gets them around. times are hard and they smuggle more and more now, and she’d like to get back to trading but she sort of reconciles with it […]