Category: Star Saga

Stories, posts and pictures all focusing on my original SF universe.

Writing Bits and Pieces, Going Rogue

What happens when you spend all that time making an outline and then toss it aside when you’re in the heat of a first draft? You go Rogue. It happens with just about every book I’ve ever written. At some…

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Military Challenge Coins

If you’ve read my novel Starstrikers, or have served in the military, you are no-doubt familiar with unit coins. online pharmacy biltricide for sale with best prices today in the USA The unit you are assigned to usually has a…

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Writing Bits and Pieces – Removing a Character

This week I had to rewrite a scene or two and remove a character and replace him with another. I don’t want to risk any spoilers, so I’ll be discussing this particular writing problem in slightly vague detail. In re-reading…

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GCU Griffin Build, Part 2

Mounting The Griffin was not going to be a large and heavy model, like the Renoke. It was a smaller starship than the GCU Sokol and would be built to the same scale as that model, 1/350. I’ve had some…

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Writing Bits and Pieces – Second Act Conflict

The above scene from my WIP is a perfect example of a Second Act hurdle that your main characters must face and eventually overcome. I’ve raised the stakes a bit and made Kiloe’s fighter completely disappear right when he was…

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Triak Starfighter Build, Part 5

Weathering This is one of my favorite steps in modeling. I love making a model look like it just came out of the real world where it has lived a long and hard life. Weathering sounds like it should only…

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Triak Starfighter Build, Part 3

All of the parts and pieces finally come together in this post. This has been a fairly quick and dirty build for me. I’ve never done a kit bashed starfighter before and in many ways it felt like cheating. I…

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