Not quite the word I expected, but one I’m happy enough to see. :) I was hoping to channel at least a bit of CelestAI through him, if she didn’t have access to massive computing power.
Is this a reference to the Timeship?
Nope. I’ve heard a few “if only we had the money” speculations about building a cryo-focused ranch, group home, retirement-like community, or the like fairly close to Alcor’s HQ, so members who get warning that they’re going to de-animate soon can be as close to the facility as possible. I just assumed that sometime in the next three decades, something approaching that idea ends up being put together.
Your writing has improved much
I’m pleased to hear that—and a little surprised. On this side of the keyboard, I haven’t really noticed how my writing has changed. (And f you have any specific suggestions for how to improve further, I’m all ears.)
Is every protagonist you write based on you?
Before Missy, most of my writing was in the form of play-by-email RPGs. Some of the protagonist characters I wrote were self-inserts, some took some aspect of personality and magnified it to a ridiculous degree, some were experiments (hiveminds are always fun), and some were just, well, characters. I do have to admit that when I consider any given setting, some of my first thoughts tend to be to try to figure out how I’d deal with matters therein, and I find self-inserts to be easier to write than other protagonists.
They all get turned into female animals at some point, as well.
In at least one draft of X-Risks, the protagonist ended up as a male dragon in a hard-to-reach mountaintop library-lair, before getting nudged by CelestAI into a lifestyle that’s a little more friendship-oriented. More generally, I suspect that this is a combination of my enthusiasm for transformation-focused stories that try to explore some of the possible range of the parahuman condition, and that the three protagonists you mention were close enough to being self-inserts to start out as male humans.
Not quite the word I expected, but one I’m happy enough to see. :) I was hoping to channel at least a bit of CelestAI through him, if she didn’t have access to massive computing power.
Nope. I’ve heard a few “if only we had the money” speculations about building a cryo-focused ranch, group home, retirement-like community, or the like fairly close to Alcor’s HQ, so members who get warning that they’re going to de-animate soon can be as close to the facility as possible. I just assumed that sometime in the next three decades, something approaching that idea ends up being put together.
I’m pleased to hear that—and a little surprised. On this side of the keyboard, I haven’t really noticed how my writing has changed. (And f you have any specific suggestions for how to improve further, I’m all ears.)
Before Missy, most of my writing was in the form of play-by-email RPGs. Some of the protagonist characters I wrote were self-inserts, some took some aspect of personality and magnified it to a ridiculous degree, some were experiments (hiveminds are always fun), and some were just, well, characters. I do have to admit that when I consider any given setting, some of my first thoughts tend to be to try to figure out how I’d deal with matters therein, and I find self-inserts to be easier to write than other protagonists.
In at least one draft of X-Risks, the protagonist ended up as a male dragon in a hard-to-reach mountaintop library-lair, before getting nudged by CelestAI into a lifestyle that’s a little more friendship-oriented. More generally, I suspect that this is a combination of my enthusiasm for transformation-focused stories that try to explore some of the possible range of the parahuman condition, and that the three protagonists you mention were close enough to being self-inserts to start out as male humans.