This was a super cool story! I loved getting to see these photos and hear the the tales of your guide and your personal journey, which there would be no other way for me to experience. This meant a lot to me, and I learned a lot, too! Thank you so much!
Honestly Sam, I’ll have to apologize to you. I think I’ve underestimated your capacity to write in evocative prose. You have such a fun, loose and above all else enthusiastic writing style that I forgot you could really FOCUS, conjure some vision of the land and its interconnections.
Have you ever considered writing a fiction novel? You’ve interviewed KSR, I know you appreciate fiction’s power.
Wow, thank you so much! That's quite a compliment - I'm really flattered! I have actually often thought about writing fiction, but I tend to get distracted by writing pages and pages of notes on fictional landscapes, ecosystems, history, technology etc. and only rarely going "So, there should probably be a main character of some sort..."
Ahaha! But isn’t that the way of things? People take shape beneath the earth and it’s rhythms like clay beneath a seal. After crafting the ecosystems, technology and history, surely there could be, as Emerson put it, “a transparent eye-ball” that is part and particle of the world you built?
I encountered the same struggle myself, I’ve been writing background for a book where the central premise as the development of a Saipan species without an Industrial Revolution. A lot of lore, a lot of nerd stuff, very little in the way of a character to view it.
What have you thought of? What would your first fiction novel look like?
This was a super cool story! I loved getting to see these photos and hear the the tales of your guide and your personal journey, which there would be no other way for me to experience. This meant a lot to me, and I learned a lot, too! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!!! I'm so glad to hear that.
Thank you for the trip.
Thank you!
I love the comparison of the wall and electric lines allowing for connection of information by two very different methods. Thank you
Thank you!
Honestly Sam, I’ll have to apologize to you. I think I’ve underestimated your capacity to write in evocative prose. You have such a fun, loose and above all else enthusiastic writing style that I forgot you could really FOCUS, conjure some vision of the land and its interconnections.
Have you ever considered writing a fiction novel? You’ve interviewed KSR, I know you appreciate fiction’s power.
Wow, thank you so much! That's quite a compliment - I'm really flattered! I have actually often thought about writing fiction, but I tend to get distracted by writing pages and pages of notes on fictional landscapes, ecosystems, history, technology etc. and only rarely going "So, there should probably be a main character of some sort..."
Ahaha! But isn’t that the way of things? People take shape beneath the earth and it’s rhythms like clay beneath a seal. After crafting the ecosystems, technology and history, surely there could be, as Emerson put it, “a transparent eye-ball” that is part and particle of the world you built?
I encountered the same struggle myself, I’ve been writing background for a book where the central premise as the development of a Saipan species without an Industrial Revolution. A lot of lore, a lot of nerd stuff, very little in the way of a character to view it.
What have you thought of? What would your first fiction novel look like?
Thank you! The work you do special!
Have you done a similar series in Australia?
Not yet, but I’d love to go there someday!
It’s a wonderful country to visit- the unique environment though is what would likely interest you, and the impacts of climate change of course.