Monthly Archives: January 2012

Featured Inspirational Art, 31 Jan 2012

Posted on January 31, 2012 by KenMcConnell

Today’s Inspirational Art is a Votainion Terror Diver from the Starstrikers Era of the Star Trilogy.
The design is originally mine, but this art is much better than I could do. The artist’s name escapes me now, I met him on DeviantArt. I especially love the skull and the monster with teeth or something on the [...]

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Repetitive Tasks and Daydreaming

Posted on January 30, 2012 by KenMcConnell

When you write creatively, you wind up doing a fair bit of daydreaming. It’s part of the job. How else are you going to come up with all those thrilling plots and amazing characters in your fiction? The trick is to not daydream while driving or doing the day job.
The best way that I’ve found [...]

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Twitter Posts from 2012-01-21 to 2012-01-27

Posted on January 28, 2012 by KenMcConnell

I'm moving away from just good enough ebooks. In the coming months I will be releasing ebooks that are better than average. Much better. 2012-01-26
Vader versus a Gamer. Funny. http://t.co/atWm37wq 2012-01-26
Have you read my FREE short story that ties into my novel Starforgers? http://t.co/cxFWdsVP 2012-01-26
The Vic 20 was my first computer and I even purchased [...]

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Writing Update on Starveyors

Posted on January 28, 2012 by KenMcConnell

This week I wrapped up chapter five of the novel. I need to go into my outline and work up chapter seven, as chapter six is already detailed. There has been a stretch of non-action now for at least a couple of chapters. Plenty of tension and some exposition, but not much action. So for [...]

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Building a Sci-Fi Universe, One Story and Novel at a Time

Posted on January 27, 2012 by KenMcConnell

For the past four years I’ve been writing novels and short stories that are all set in the same fictional universe. My intention is to world build on a galactic scale. My Epic Sci-Fi universe is book ended with the Star Trilogy novels. Each novel is set about 500 years from the other. So that leaves plenty [...]

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Featured Inspirational Art, 26 Jan 2012

Posted on January 26, 2012 by KenMcConnell

Today’s featured art is from CalinCosmin from Deviantart.com
It’s Corvin Castle in Romania. But I thought it looked like the Emperor’s castle on Voton as  seen in all three Star Trilogy books.

 

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What I Liked About The Phantom Menace

Posted on January 24, 2012 by KenMcConnell

I know everyone loves to loath Episode One of the Star Wars series, but here are some of the things I actually liked about the film. I’m not trying to convince you to to change you mind about it, I’m just bringing to light the things that shined for me. Something to think about next [...]

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Red Tails

Posted on January 24, 2012 by KenMcConnell

I took my kids to see the new WW2 aviation movie from George Lucas – Red Tails this weekend. I’ve been waiting to see this film for years, ever since I first heard Lucas was trying to make it. Being an avid aviation buff, I was ready to be wowed by CG airplanes and lots [...]

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Featured Inspirational Art, 24 Jan 2012

Posted on January 24, 2012 by KenMcConnell

Today’s featured art is by Stock7000 from DeviantArt.com
This is how I imagined the planet Kirii from Starveyors. The planet is seen briefly in the novel, when the Silicant named Saibot visits the ocean floor looking for signs of the Ancients. The planet is part of the Votainion Empire.

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Making of a Novel, Part 11

Posted on January 23, 2012 by KenMcConnell

[*** DISCLAIMER:  THIS POST HAS SPOILERS FOR MY NEXT NOVEL. STOP READING NOW IF YOU WANT TO BE SURPRISED ***]
This is a continuing series of posts about the writing of my novel, Starveyors. You can start at the beginning and catch up at your own pace, or just read on and try to figure it all out on [...]

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