I really like some of your story choices because you didnt take the easy way out by making day to day “Life” for the Bob’s easy, its more like a futuristic Odyssey and you made it even keeled instead of too optimistic or too dark. They want to train welders and computer people, not writers. I’ll have to see if they will though, its hard to explain that I want writing light Sci-fi to be my new career and that it would be able to sustain my living. I’m trying to get the VA to let me go back to school to take a writing class or two. It was nice to have something that brought troops together and I was asked if there will be more several times but I was unable to finish the series because of my injury. I understand about adapting, I have written a couple short stories and they circulated in Afghanistan and it was weird when a Polish Commander asked me if it would be ok to translate it to Polish and he wanted my input on the translations. Write the book that you’d like to have read. I can’t give you any advice on that, just encouragement. I can understand why that puppy is still in the top 10 on Audible, 6 years later. Re Ernest Cline, I’ve listened to Ready Player One on Audible. If pantser is 0 and plotter is 100, I’m probably at the 60 point. You don’t have to be up against one peg or the other. When you’re reading about writing strategies, there’s a lot of talk of pantsers vs plotters, but it’s important to remember that it’s a continuum. Also, before Audible signed me, they gave a lot of free development editing advice.

I had the main story arcs set out, but a lot of the details evolved. I also didn’t initially have the VR concept, but the story began to feel too “talking heads”.

I was worried about multiple first-person POVs, but because it’s all the same person, people accepted it. Legion started out in third person, then I decided that created too much distance.

All these worlds bobiverse