POST-CYBERPUNK: To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what 'post-cyberpunk' means. According to TVTropes.org, Post-Cyberpunk "picks up where Cyberpunk left off. Whereas cyberpunk is/was a Darker and Edgier riposte to older Science Fiction, intended to portray what might happen if we don't all destroy ourselves, Post-Cyberpunk is intended to present a ( Read more... )

I meant to crosspost my Nuke Opera 2020 stuff from my WordPress blog as I went along but didn't keep up with it and now there are so many articles, I'm too daunted by the prospect to make the effort. So, toward that end, I'm reposting the index I created over at doomsdaywriter.wordpress.com with the intention of updating both posts as I go on.

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Introducing Our Acquaintance, the Atom:

Reposted from my blog, Doomsday Writer originally posted January 15, 2020

Since nuclear weapons unleash the power of the atom in explosions of amazing destructive power, it’s necessary to understand what an atom is to better be able to understand what they can do ( Read more... )

Nuke Opera 2020: A Reading List

Reposted from my blog,
Doomsday Writer; originally posted January 12, 2020

Introduction:
Since tonight is going to be an earlier than usual night for me, I figured I’d toss up a list of the Nuke Opera books I’m planning on taking a look at. The idea, right now, is to start at the top of the list and work my way down, ( Read more... )

Nostalgia, Nuclear War and Navel-Gazing: An Introduction to NUKE OPERA 2020
Reposted from my blog, Doomsday Writer; originally posted January 8, 2020
Nostalgia:
This is the year I turn fifty and like a lot of people do when they find themselves approaching the half-century mark, I’ve found myself turning introspective and more than a bit nostalgic for ( Read more... )

The writing continues apace - albeit a slow pace (at least until today), but still, slow progress is still progress. Word counts are, thus far:

• Day 6 (August 11): 134 words
• Day 7 (August 13): 348 words
• Day 8 (August 14): 146 words
• Day 9 (August 15): 1,576 words

A lot of those words aren’t narrative, but are instead notes to myself for the ( Read more... )

The actual writing part of the process of Chapter Zero continues! A lot of the writing is me making notes to myself, but I do have some actual narrative bits in there too and I'm pretty happy with those.

Day 4: I managed about 124 words, most of which was centered on the scene at the Joe/Autobot party and which is going to need editing. I'm ( Read more... )

The actual writing of Chapter Zero has started! It was a slow grind, but I have made a start and I mean to continue with said start tomorrow! I switched the order of the scenes I came up with yesterday and figured out locations and times/dates for the three scenes ( Read more... )

I've been working on trying to figure out what Joes and Autobots I want working together -- toward that end, I've made up about half a dozen spreadsheets aimed at figuring out which characters were likely to exist at the time when my story is set -- originally, it was just circa 1993; now, the majority of the story takes place over the course of ( Read more... )

Today has been a day of doing more thinking than actually writing. Mainly because I have determined that I need to flesh out some aspects of the story, specifically which Autobots and which Joes would be teaming up together for the joint GI Joe/Autobot training exercises that help spark the action of the story ( Read more... )