Category: Story

  • Fragments: Scars

    In “The decline of Europe“, a series of six SF stories I am working on, Europe is in an IP-lockdown since 2020. Each of the six stories I am working on is about 40.000 words. This fragment is from “Dreams” (working title). “Dreams” is the story of Isabelle, from 2035 to 2061. It provides one of…

  • Fragments: Declaration of love

    It took me 3 posts to on several aspects related to discrimination to get my own base-feel right on this. Here is why. Abayomi is from Uganda. Where Europe went down, Uganda went up. There is a muffled sense of inferiority in Isabelle due to these differences. I “solved” this in the first version by…

  • Writing: A time travel story that is not a time-travel story

    This weekend I finished version 4 of the draft to my short story I will call “Scars” for now. Main elements It takes four main elements. “Time to leave” — And more specifically: the first draft of a time-travel / time crime story by Jurgen. “The Story of your life” — Where the main character,…

  • Writing: The different stepping stones for a writer

    Based on the past days and weeks I decided to write a short blog post on my idea of the different stepping stones in the life of a writer. This is based on my experiences (and findings) as an SF writer, but I think it applies to a broader field. The slaughter I will add…

  • Writing: Cultural Identity / erasure of cultural identity

    One recurring element in the past days and weeks is Identity. Or cultural Identity. I wrote several posts on discrimination and racism, exploring the deeper workings from a superficial point of view (not doing more research than what I am reading on a daily basis and summarizing my thoughts.) This post — no doubt —…

  • Writing: short story

    I am going to try and write a short story in 35 minutes. Because that is how much time I have. Choice “Your life is your own choice,” he said. And I nodded. And then I saw myself nod as if the camera panned back. And I stood up and smacked my hands on the…

  • Writing: Spindoctoring a war – more on the story "Future History"

    I wrote a short story called “Future History” and documented earlier here about “the first IP wars”. In this story Zambia is the first of a series of attacks in a war that is actually between America and China. The reason for this war is that in Uganda, in the Chinese factories, products are made…

  • Story fragment: sitting in the apple tree and shouting at the world

    Editing. This quoted part was added to the story beginning of this week. The apple tree plays a recurring role in the story. It is where she would be playing as a kid, imagining she was Captain Europe. The scene below is one of the key scenes in the chapter and I was almost there.…

  • Re-tellings: The Dark-hooded girl

    Short stories are not my best thing. I want to do too much in too little space and usually end up writing 10.o00 and more words. About a month ago, I decided to do something to attack that issue: take an existing short story and then retell it. Sometimes within my own future history, some…

  • Story fragment: Thinking about the future

    There was this old part in the story that was all about war and history and a shift where the war for land shifted to a war of trade to a war of intellectual property. Where the law-firms are the new enforcers, the new soldiers in the new war of power and (market) dominion. All…

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