I’m nearly halfway through the backstory material for my current WIP. I’m writing a series of books tentatively titled The Five Rims Series and try as I might, I’m going to create a Tolkienesque place, a (most likely) vain attempt to give my setting a richness that will hopefully translate to a sweeping epic. I’m just going to ignore what Hemingway said about bad writers, I guess.
But (no offense to Hemingway) this is really hard work.
Really hard.
I’m not only creating six solar systems, but I’m also creating the flora and fauna for those habitable planets in those systems as well as alien races, culture, customs, a brief history of each habitable planet and a backstory for how the terrans became their conquerors and eventually were eradicated to near extinction. The first book will be titled The Last Terran.
It is daunting, I know, but I really want…
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