Here's a new video from the Spacedock #Youtube channel about the Orion Drive. I love all the #SpaceShip designs they talk about, and I want to find ways of using them in my #SciFi #writing.

It also has a link to the #ScienceFiction #AudioDrama The Sojourn, which I'll start when I have the time.

#inspiration #WritingInspiration #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritingSciFi #SF #SpeculativeFiction #WritersOfMastodon #SpaceShips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ntizB4Uc_0

@lordmatt

The first is likely very well known, but here are the 7 bookmarks I use most for #WritingSciFi.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php

https://www.vcalc.com/

http://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/SpinCalc.htm

https://in-the-sky.org/solarsystem.php

http://orbitsimulator.com/

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/acceleration

https://flood.firetree.net/

Taking a break from #WritingSciFi #WIP #SciFi H2LiftShips - Vol 4 'BosonsWave^2'

Here's a little bit of a time diversion.

We're not killing baby Hitler, but exploring the breaks in the semi-solid time jello surrounding all of us.

https://www.scifishorts.co/premium/time-jello/1b8a7b32-0e75-4ddf-98d8-2a3b80da85b8

Working on the monetary system of the #SciFi world I've built.
BioGel chits are 'wallets' and
everything is in ΞStandards. The smallest unit is a colored line the width of a single micron, equivalent to the cost of one waste disposal session.

For some reason, the concept of money based on sewage disposal seems pretty fair to me.
No one can say I don't write weird stuff.

Vol 4 BosonsWave^2 - H2LiftShips series
#WritingCommunity
#WritingSciFi

Have idea for science fiction book, but not sure how to go about constructing it. Currently keeping a daily journal to generate plot, but uncertain as to how to arrange it. Do people read novels anymore?
#writing #sciencefiction #writingscifi

Stuck on the #WIP so time for a change up.

It seems no matter what I do, there are some 5% passive sentences in anything I write.
I'll just put it down to 'style' and let it go.

'Time Amoeba' is at 3k words and ready to be finished up.

Of course, if anyone wants to read and comment, I'd be happy to share.
#WritingCommunity
#WritingSciFi

Nothing much new this week.

Here is an old shot of Canyon Creek Lakes in the Trinity Alps one fine winter day.

Hit a wall on the latest #WIP of the H2LiftShip series and am now running down the TimeJello path.

All I can say is that it is an interesting world once you step behind the time wall.

#WritingCommunity
#WritingSciFi
#SciFi
#TimeJello

@ekelseya you like sentient octopuses? We got them here.
The navigators talk to you in color languages, sucker diaphragms or Morse code.
All books free until January 01, 2023.

Links here
www.h2liftship.com
#scifi
#WritingCommunity
#WritingSciFi

Fresh cover for the next #H2LiftShips book (Vol 4)
Adjustments will be needed.

Vol 1 - 3 are still free from the #Smashwords End of Year Sale, ends Jan 01 - Get them now!

Links at www.h2liftship.com

Vol 4 is at 30k words, needs to grow to 80k+
This will be a long haul, expanding the universe and tracking the concepts, but that is the fun of #WritingSciFi worlds.

#WritingCommunity
#Bookstodon #SciFi

Nerds, allow me to introduce @Fordwalker.

She writes! (In magazines like BCS.)

She draws! (She illustrated for Disney.)

She skates! (And her skates are fancy.)

Please make her welcome.

#amWriting #writingCommunity #writingScifi #writingFantasy #scifi #fantasy

#WritingWonders Day 2: "Would you live in your fictional world?"

For my #WIP #InteractiveFiction, the world is the #StarTrek universe, in the late 23rd century.

I would definitely live there, could I, but not in the setting of the story, which is a Starfleet ship.

I might travel on civilian starships, and mostly live on planet (probably Earth), but the danger and unstable life aboard a Starfleet ship wouldn't appeal to me as a personal lifestyle. #ScienceFiction #WritingSciFi #writing

A short story came back, #rejected, of course, and I paid for feedback.
"The piece conveys such well. Everything
from the title — Cataquences and play on a phrase — to the content is wholly, completely warm.
Relaxing."
"...rambles and tangents of the speaker,"

Relaxing and tangents, I can live with that. Published, now that is a different question.

# Bookstodon #Bookbub
@bookstodon #WritingCommunity #WritingSciFi

COVER REVEAL! Shelly Campbell and I are delighted to present the second edition of Making Myths and Magic: A Field Guide to Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy, which will be available January 2, 2023 (which is also National Science Fiction Day!). Add to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63958983-making-myths-and-magic #BookCover #WritingSciFi #WritingFantasy

In the #Holiday spirit, here is a little celebration in the great void for your entertainment:
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https://www.h2liftship.com/the-santa

Celebrate ‘The-Santa’ on an Asteroid.
It isn't always pleasant, but it's always cold and dark.

#SciFi #WritingCommmunity #Bookstodon #WritingSciFi #FreeStory ~3k words

In the #Holiday spirit, here is a little celebration in the great void for your entertainment:
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https://www.h2liftship.com/the-santa

Celebrate ‘The-Santa’ on an Asteroid.
It isn't always pleasant, but it's always cold and dark.

#SciFi #WritingCommmunity #WritingSciFi #FreeStory ~3k words

“Our new, fully-automated, treat dispersement system uses patented technology to error check Peck code and to ensure your hard-working fowl are well-rewarded for every single line of valid bird code that they peck out. Combine the power of Peck 2.0 with our new Avian Development Environment (ADE) and your poultry pals will soon be happily pecking out beautiful, efficient code! Visit your local Avian Industries retailer today for more information!” #writingscifi #writing #scifi

The commercial continues: “Avian Industries, the leader in bird-based computing systems, is proud to announce the release of Peck 2.0, our all new advanced Avian programming language! Peck 2.0 has been designed to take advantage of the processing power of five or more chickens in order to produce beautiful, high-speed, optimized bird code. Gone are the days of slow, single chicken programming!….” #writingscifi #writing #scifi

Somewhere, on a dusty old farm in the middle if nowhere, an ancient radio crackles to life and a commercial from an alternate mid-century America fills the air. “Are you a hard-working farmer looking for a way to increase your yearly revenue while expanding into new and exciting markets? Do you have a few chickens sitting around doing nothing but laying the occasional egg? If so, the new and exciting world of large-scale avian farm programming might be for you!” #writingscifi #writing #scifi

#WritingSciFi
#WritingCommunity
#SciFi
I should be working on Vol 4 of my Space Opera series, and not spend time on social media.

Now with #mastodon AND the #Twitter, I can waste even more time...I mean, research on the fine weirdos/personalities on the platforms.
Not #you, of course.

www.h2liftship.com

#WritingFantasy
#WritingSciFi
#WritingCommunity
#WritingFiction
#Writing