All Coming Together

A "Big Plot" is coming together piece by piece in my mind as I slam words out of my keyboard. Several former ideas and abandoned stories are merging together in a roiling Big Crunch of Good, which will soon blast out in a Novel Big Bang, exploding into the universe that is quality genre fiction, all the while kidnapping the promising characters trapped in half-baked stories, subsuming their half-remembered plots of old into a glorious tapestry of tapestrontaneity.

I'm going to steal my own comment on Alex J. Kane's blog post because it applies to the remainder:

/My theory goes as follows:

Bam! The Singularity occurs. That is, humans can shed their bodies for more immortal coils. It’s very expensive so only the very rich can afford it at first.

So, there’d be rich immortals, middle class techs, and poor laborers for a while. The Singularity continues, becoming cheaper and cheaper at a faster and faster rate until everybody can afford it.

And since the technology also improves, it’s possible that the late adopters might be the best off in the eternity that lies ahead.

Ah, but is not delayed poetic future social justice future poetic social justice denied?/

After I finish this ghost story, I'm going to settle into writing the book-provisional title "The Apocalypse of Frank Evers"-taking off from the cast of characters I wrote in a novelette that failed to satisfy me. I'm calling this the expansion of what was Meant To Be.

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Here's the highlights: Independent Space Scouts, the Singularity "Incomplete Utopia" Revolution, Clipper Ships, Fast Zombies, Post-post-Apocalypse, Persistent Virtual World, Romance?!?

Combining my love of the Singularity with my love of clipper ships is my idea of a good time. Also, both concepts have a small carbon footprint.

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500 words? Yes
Short Story "Moving In, Moving On" - slow but steady, in progress (~2/5?)