Home Sweet Home!

I've decided to do a little reorganization of the blog. I've been bouncing around working on this and that, making a little progress, here and there. So I will document my progress on individual pages for the specific books that I am working on. So, if you want to know what I am doing, you're going to have to look around and figure it ou!

Still Battling on Rikkman Three

Well, I am still battling away on Rikkman Three. I realized it was unrealistic to think that the former Free Traders and other independent types that live on Rikkman Three, would not have set up some sort of defensive systems around their home. So I have been reworking the battle to put a little more "teeth" in the fight, from the viewport of the colonists, that is.

The DragonHawks

Doing some writing and some behind the scenes work tonight. Continuing to write on the aftermath of the Rikkman Three battle. Trying to find some character names, I have gotten into a bit of reorganization of my Star Trader Data workbook, specifically the character spreadsheet. With 258 characters list by name, I decided to break it up by first and last name, and do some other reorganization.

Meanwhile, Sollar and Alanca are still keeping secrets from each other. Sollar does not want to talk too much about the wreck of the Sollar Star. Nor does Alanca want to talk about his organization, although he knows that Sollar could help him out, just like he can help Sollar out. Hopefully their friendship will prevail in the end!

The Battle of Rikkman Three Continues

It's been a long time since I wrote a new blog entry. I did not realize how long until I saw that my last entry was on September 19th. Truth be told, I have not been writing very much lately. I must admit that I got distracted by another author, Kim Harrison and her series about witch bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. If you are not familiar with her books, you should go check out her work at http://www.kimharrison.com/.

Meanwhile, the battle of Rikkman Three continues. I have almost finished the battle, working right now on the aftermath. I am sad to report that the Sollar Star did not survive the battle. So now, Bane Sollar is stuck on Rikkman Three, hiding from the Reska who are prowling through the wreckage of the terminal and the Sollar Star, looking for Bane Sollar.

So I have a lot of work to do, to get Sollar safely away from Rikkman Three and back to Tycho Station. I have a feeling that Sollar is going to find out some things about his friend Pol Alanca and the other residents of Rikkman Three.

Thanks for reading!

Dave

Dragon Summer - The Escape

Tonight I posted a different part of Dragon Summer to that page. Go over and read about The Escape and let me know what you think!

Thanks!

Dave

The Battle of Rikkman Three, Tycho Station

I have been making some good progress lately as I work on a major change to Tycho Station. This change will ripple through the rest of the book, as I destroy the Sollar Star in the battle and leave Sollar at the mercy of the former Free Traders, Mundo Wigo and Ramm Charan.  Overall, it should be a good change.

At the same time, I cut out a big, meandering background story that was not really needed. So my quest to reduce the size of the story continues...

At last, an update

Well, it's been almost a month since I made an entry here on the blog. I've been working on Tycho Station and a bit on Dragon Hunters. Not making much progress. I know I need to rewrite the the battle on Rikkman Three, have some pretty radical ideas about what to do. Like make the attack, an attack on Sollar. The OutRiders coming after their masters, the Tycho Star Traders, or something like that. And the destruction of the Sollar Star.

Then move the timeline of Dragon Hunters forward, have the Tychos kicked out of Gaanard at the start of the story. Have Elias get an earlier start on building up his fleet and the size of Legion.

Need more action! Need more action! Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

Something like that...

Thanks for reading!