Upon the Wings of Greater Things

The creative endeavours of Starla Huchton

Tuesday Teaser – Meet Lydia

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Welcome to my first ever Teaser Tuesday post!

I’ve decided to take the next three weeks and give you a little taste of the Sci-Fi Romance Endure series I’ve been obsessively slaving away at for months now. I’m a good chunk of the way through book 3, Progeny, as of this posting, but I can’t give you any of that until books 1 and 2, Maven and Nemesis, are out in the world. Hopefully, I’ll have some sort of timeline on their release very soon, but for now you can get a little taste of what’s coming.

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Shifting Gears: From Fantasy to Science Fiction

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If you’ve ever written anything remotely Science Fiction-related, you’ve probably done research. Personally, it wasn’t something I had ever really considered up until a few years ago. That was the beauty of primarily writing Fantasy: you can make it up and no one will question it (usually, there are outliers).

I’ve found Science Fiction to be an entirely different animal. I have to be honest here. I was never much into “hard” sci-fi, full of detailed explanations of tech and high level theories. I always preferred Fantasy’s “wave a wand and call it magic” approach, thus negating the need to explain why things happened (I’m not arguing rules of various magic systems here, just go with this for argument’s sake, okay?). This was one-hundred and fifty percent true for me… until I discovered Steampunk.

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2013: First Goal Reached

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So, remember about two weeks ago when I said my goal was to finish three first drafts of novels this year?

Well, I’ve finished one.

It wasn’t the story I was planning on finishing first, but it’s one that’s been with me since I was in high school. I began writing this novel last year about this time, cranked out 68,000+ words, and set it aside as Master of Machines took hold of me and threw me back into the world of Antigone’s Wrath. When reviewing all the projects I started last year, this one called to me once again and I dove in and finished it up in about a week after my last blog post.

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