{"id":6105,"date":"2011-09-23T17:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T23:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2011-09-23T17:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T23:53:52","slug":"to-publish-or-not-to-publish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/to-publish-or-not-to-publish\/","title":{"rendered":"To publish or not to publish?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s what I’m wondering about right now with my latest project, Star Wanderers.<\/em> The full-length novel isn’t complete yet, but the first part forms a self-contained novelette that has been sooo<\/em> much fun to write.<\/p>\n

The story takes place in the Gaia Nova universe, about five hundred Earth years before the events of Bringing Stella Home<\/em>.\u00a0 The main character is a 20-something boy who, as is customary in the outworlds, left his home to wander the stars, searching for a suitable place to settle down and start a family.<\/p>\n

While visiting a remote space station, he unwittingly gets roped into marrying this girl, whose father is trying save her from starvation by sending her away. The problem, though, is that neither the boy nor the girl speak the same language.<\/p>\n

So basically, he just wants to drop her off at the next port and be done with it, while she thinks that she’s his wife and is trying to live up to those expectations.\u00a0 Over the course of their voyage, though, they gradually fall in love and become a couple.\u00a0 That’s where the novelette ends, and the second part of the novel begins.<\/p>\n

Because I’m a total dork, I looked up all the major tropes in Star Wanderers<\/em> on tvtropes.\u00a0 Here’s just a few of them:<\/p>\n