The Orville and Stuff
Mar. 6th, 2026 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiPrepare to cheer: Seth Macfarlane has the fourth season of The Orville written; it's down to scheduling, with his the thorniest. The full cast is up for it too. I'm pleased that a smart science fiction show with great characters and a trans friendly story history is returning after long hiatus.
The writing is moving again, and the current story is keeping my attention well enough that I'm making steady progress on it. I'm thinking hard in the direction of doing a 30 day challenge with my plot points for Love Meme? 3 – Ready, Set, Inaction.
The Déjà vu trilogy is out of editing. I'm taking beta readers for it now. I think of it as a hard science fiction story, so the math and science is based on what we know. Arthur C. Clarke said that hard science fiction can have one impossible thing in it and remain science fiction, and I think this meets that criterion. I've got lots of other stuff for beta readers too, if anyone's interested in catching my stuff. I tend to be genre agnostic, so the lines, if they exist at all, are often blurry. I also don't do trope-based plotlines or hew to genre story arcs (this is why the Love Meme? series isn't Romance, they're classic love stories) so those who like things that don't telegraph the ending early may enjoy my writing.
Other than that, things are grinding along like they do. My three score celebration went unnoticed by most of the people I know – thanks to the four people who called and the one who emailed. I wondered for many years how much VisageTome inflated awareness of it, and I figured it was around what I got this time around; it's one of the "features" of web 2.0 social media—it gives its merchandise inflated indications of their influence and social group size. I'm more comfortable knowing what the real situation is; yeah, that stuff feeds an extrovert in some ways, but physical proximity is its own reward.
The writing is moving again, and the current story is keeping my attention well enough that I'm making steady progress on it. I'm thinking hard in the direction of doing a 30 day challenge with my plot points for Love Meme? 3 – Ready, Set, Inaction.
The Déjà vu trilogy is out of editing. I'm taking beta readers for it now. I think of it as a hard science fiction story, so the math and science is based on what we know. Arthur C. Clarke said that hard science fiction can have one impossible thing in it and remain science fiction, and I think this meets that criterion. I've got lots of other stuff for beta readers too, if anyone's interested in catching my stuff. I tend to be genre agnostic, so the lines, if they exist at all, are often blurry. I also don't do trope-based plotlines or hew to genre story arcs (this is why the Love Meme? series isn't Romance, they're classic love stories) so those who like things that don't telegraph the ending early may enjoy my writing.
Other than that, things are grinding along like they do. My three score celebration went unnoticed by most of the people I know – thanks to the four people who called and the one who emailed. I wondered for many years how much VisageTome inflated awareness of it, and I figured it was around what I got this time around; it's one of the "features" of web 2.0 social media—it gives its merchandise inflated indications of their influence and social group size. I'm more comfortable knowing what the real situation is; yeah, that stuff feeds an extrovert in some ways, but physical proximity is its own reward.
