Post date: Nov 09, 2011 5:12:25 AM
Something fairly new to me: writing fiction rather than software. I have only tried once as an adult to write some fiction, an unpublished short story, a near-future tale of media terrorism. The new effort was prompted by John Michael Greer, in his blog "The Archdruid Report". It was this post specifically. I have begun working on a near-future coming-of-age romance in a mostly post-industrial world. It is currently novella-length, perhaps it will grow to a full novel. The beginning is here: Dissolution Day. It is written at perhaps the "Young Adult" level. PG stuff!
I excerpted part of it and expanded it slightly to make it stand better on its own and submitted it to John Michael Greer for consideration of publication in a short story anthology. That short story is "An Alliance Too Costly."
This fiction-writing project has absorbed all of my hobby Linux software developing time in the past several weeks, so if you came here for progress updates for software, I'm sorry about that. I hope you enjoy the fiction. I will get back to software, probably around the December/January holidays.
If you came here because of my fiction, and you are at all interested in Linux, please take a moment to review my original Linux apps. Of course, I you you enjoy the fiction as well!