Ask the Author: K.B. Nelson
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K.B. Nelson
I had been in the hospital 10 times in ten months, and was trying to get my head around the physical and emotional pain of that ordeal. My main character kept showing up, in a suicide fall with "his" AI-controlled ship toward an enemy planet. That crash and what came after stayed with me for months when the pain meds made writing an iffy proposition. It has unfolded and grown rich in the last few weeks...I'm about 130 pages in and it shows no signs of slowing down.
K.B. Nelson
By readings, taking long walks in our ancient forests here in the Pacific Northwest, meeting other writers, ingesting movies and music and glimpses of plots and characters until I am bursting. Then I just sit down and let it happen. I never know where my stories will go...they are truly character driven, and I am only trying to keep up with them as they go on with their complex lives. It's never a struggle and never a "job" and never boring.
K.B. Nelson
I'm working on a novel about human divergent evolution--two very different kinds of humanity, different ways of thinking and feeling clash on an interstellar level. Only one person can bring them together--and both sides want him dead. I love working with the wildlife of a new planet, of folding in relational AI components, of playing with politics on a planet-wide scale. Lots of fodder for a fast moving and exciting SF story.
I'm also incredibly thankful for the narrator I'm working with to bring my books into audio. His name is Gregory Peyton, and he is an amazing voice talent. Dreamcatcher Fallacy is already done and available on Amazon and iTune an Audible now he's working on what I consider to be my best writing project: Folds of the Script, a mainstream SF novel.
I'm also incredibly thankful for the narrator I'm working with to bring my books into audio. His name is Gregory Peyton, and he is an amazing voice talent. Dreamcatcher Fallacy is already done and available on Amazon and iTune an Audible now he's working on what I consider to be my best writing project: Folds of the Script, a mainstream SF novel.
K.B. Nelson
Write for yourself first. Throw away outlines and writing classes and sit down and get to work. Create strong characters...walk around with them, know them better than a sibling or lover And then put them in impossible situations...let them find the way out. Don't over-think; use your gut and "become" the characters you are working with. Fall in love with them; time spent with them is like spending time with great friends and better than any video game out there.
K.B. Nelson
Exploring all the questions I have in my own head--what does it mean to be human? Where is the species headed? What is the relationship between machines and the humanity that creates them? How do we quantify and qualify sentience and intelligence? What is the nature of evil? What taboos are cultural and can I blast through them on the back of another kind of culture? It's all fascinating.
K.B. Nelson
By putting on epic music...the soundtrack from Dune, or some of the newer epic composers. Music makes images, images become plot lines, and I never get a "let down" like caffeine can do!
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