Finally (really!) writing Collider

I started writing Collider yesterday. 

It’s only about thirty years in the making. When I first came up with the Space Corps stories, the Danab didn’t even exist. It’s since become known as the Danab Cycle. I didn’t really have a story, back then, but I stumbled into one when I very unexpectedly decided to kill off one of the main characters early on.  Hey, I’m a Star Trek geek. I’m sure there was some Tasha Yar reasoning involved. 

As the years advanced, I worked on the story until everything about it made sense. I even figured out why that character’s death meant something. I wrote a novella, eventually, dealing specifically with that (Terrestrial Affairs), which kind of lightened the load a little. It remains absolutely essential to this story, but the whole story doesn’t have to explain why it happened so much as what resulted. 

I had the last of the needful breakthroughs, really, only later in the day. So I added to what I wrote yesterday this morning. And can now plunge confidently forward.

I‘ll keep you posted…