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The Trial of Pantsing (WIP Report)

Every writer’s journey has its unique twists and turns, characters that pop up and demand their stories be told, and inspirations that come from the unlikeliest of places. Today, I want to take you behind the scenes of my current project, “Trial of Transfer,” which is the opening saga in the “Star Trek: First Duty” series.

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WIP Progress Report: December 2015

Well, my last progress report was all the way back in January, so I figured it would be a good idea to post something here.

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WIP Progress Report: 2014, thus far…

What have I been up to since the last progress report?  Quite a lot, actually…

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Prompted: Originality Triumphs

And here is yet another prompt from the Ad Astra Blog Community, but this time it’s talking about original settings.  This topic is definitely relevant to how I write within Trek.

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Prompted: Branching Out

As part of the Ad Astra Star Trek Fanfiction Community, I’ll participate from time to time with the prompts being published by our new fanfic review/commentary blog, Boldly Reading.  And because it seems my blogging has become rather sparse lately, I decided to try my hand and this week’s prompt… especially since there’s a lot …

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WIP Progress Report: July 30, 2013

Starfleet Commbadge from the 2360s by Kris Trigwell

Here’s the WIP Progress Report for July 2013!  This will include the months in between now and then.

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Best Laid Plans

Starfleet Commbadge from the 2360s by Kris Trigwell

As with all things, sometimes when you make a plan, things don’t turn out that way you thought they would.  Full Speed Ahead is no different, and the big multi-season plan has changed pretty significantly as to warrant whole episodes being rewritten wholesale.  In this post, I’ll talk about what happened, and what happening now.

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To Triumph and Not to Mourn

As I said in a previous post, the latest Full Speed Ahead story, “To Triumph and Not to Mourn,” was completed. It has now been fully published at Ad Astra!  I wanted to take a few moments to talk about what went into the production, so if you’ve not yet read it (or the immediately …

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Last Night I Dreamt I Went to Manderley, Again…

The Chains of Error cover

Kudos to anyone who recognizes the famous first line of this blog post.  But last night before I reported in for work, Sam Redfeather and I had a chance to polish off the last bit of The Chains of Error and I wanted to write on my feelings about this endeavor.  Sam hasn’t had a …

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