THE FLOWER CHAMBER is the working title of my new series, which stars Omaha as The Goddess Hathor Reborn, in a Domed City of the Future after the Great Economic Collapse, trying to make it work between Men and Women in an uncertain world, from an Egyptian palace under the dome where love is being dispensed for free.

The series is being serialized in CHERRY COMIX starting this year, along with a CHERRYPOCALYPSE serial by Larry, and work by MARK BODE and others.

Check for more details at CHERRY COMIX!

"The Flower Chamber" is taking shape

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Published: Saturday, 12 October 2019 14:35
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THE FLOWER CHAMBER is the working title of my new series, which stars Omaha as The Goddess Hathor Reborn, in a Domed City of the Future after the Great Economic Collapse, trying to make it work between Men and Women in an uncertain world, from an Egyptian palace under the dome where love is being dispensed for free.

This is a piece that is partly Science Fiction and partly allegory, and of course it is adults only.

After a lot of beginning research, I seem to have turned a corner. Now the story I believed on-and-off that I had, is starting to emerge, in big surprising bursts. There's a lesson here somewhere, something like, when something grabs you hard, stick with it and believe in it no matter how crazy it seems. Things that caused me to believe my story was totally absurd, have emerged as important plot points, and things that came up to stymie me have popped into the story with a meaning that I didnt even suspect until i did more research, and connections I made that i thought were foolish have turned out to have historical or mythological significance and belong in the story for reasons I only found out later. In the end, of course, i'll smile and do the cat thing, of saying "oh yeah, I meant to do that." When really, stuff just keeps falling in my lap.

 Here is a promotional drawing of our star, Osanna (aka Hathor) in Her palace, which will appear on the back cover of Larry Welz's upcoming Cherry #23.

I will post developments as they occur.

Science fiction is HARD WORK!

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Published: Friday, 13 September 2019 06:48
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   I've been reading this stuff my whole life, but I've never had to write any. When we did Omaha, Kate and I didn't have to make anything up, we just gleaned stuff from our own lives and the life of the city we lived in. We were never short on material. We didn't have to do any world-building.
I'm pretty good with dialog, but I'm not used to the Herculean task of world-building like my SF writer friends, my gaming friends, my fantasy writer friends, or my superhero comic writing friends. And to make things worse, I haven't been paying that much attention to the CURRENT world I live in for it to be useful. So, study study study, search search search, learn learn learn. I have characters, I have a mise-en-scene, but i'm nowhere near having a story. Before I have that, I'm going to have to put the characters in the setting even though it's far from fully realized, and see what happens, and what comes charging in from offstage. And everything that happens brings me to a new juncture where i have to go back to the research and do more construction.
I haven't even been to the drawing table yet, but my studio is just shoveled-out enough so that I can get in there as soon as i have to.
 

 

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