The damn dam reformed.

     Like constipation, writer's block causes someone to just sit there and sit there, with nothing emerging (thank the Golden Girls for that joke). Hopefully, when something does emerge, they don't have the same characteristics. But I disgustingly digress.
     I'm blogging on a few blogs tonight to try to break something loose. So far, I'm coming up with setting ideas and alien species ideas, but little to no narrative ideas.

     'Across the Multiverse' is science fiction at it's base, with magic and psionics as accents. As I've said before, the concept of somewhat the love-child of Star Trek and Dungeons & Dragons. And I'm the type of science fiction writer who would make sure the science theories are strong, then go from there. Questions come to mind like "Could a gas giant's earth-sized moon have a moon of its own?" "Could a red giant have a planet with vegetation?" And I Google things, then get distracted, and Google more things.
     So, my writing process is, as they say, like a monkey fucking a football; a lot happens, but nothing gets accomplished.

Hobbies feeding off each other.

     My gaming and writing are feeding off of each other. I got into playing Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. The character I play is a cyborg mercenary with body modification addiction, which reminded me of a character in one of my stories. However, the character I wrote is a bit more principled than the game's character.
     In "The Chronicle of the Heir: Death Sets Sail," Scorp is a partially mechanical second-mate and security enforcer of the ship 'Reckless Revelry', who is succumbing to bod-mod addiction. But I'm careful not to make it seem like I'm plagiarizing. Cybernetic upgrading and modification addiction (cybernetic and otherwise), are both common character motifs; and it's really about what the writer wants to do with those motifs.
     The main reason I decided to make Scorp a cyborg is because of the old stories about pirates with eye patches, hooks, and peg legs, so I decided to make him have futuristic versions of all three.

     Also, I've decided to split the spotlight among three adventuring parties for the fifth "Chronicle of the Heir" story. I haven't quite figured out what will constitute each party, though. I've also started writing the third and fourth stories at the same time - "Wanted" and "Requiem."