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9/11/20, 10:09 AM
> I’ve gotta say, the fellow who borrowed the idea, the one where the gov stepped in and made the symbiots into rubber drones and killed off the great one with round up… he had a good story too. Kinda hoped he’d continue his version too. Like alternate universes… > That's my boy rubbrsome -- I love what he's been doing, too. (it's been a hot minute since we've heard from him -- I hope he's well.) He let me preview that story before he posted it and I loved it! (There's a cool argument to be made about why we assume the aliens would only pollinate humans -- rubbrsome ran w that.) Yes, I look at it as an alternate future... or maybe it's not.
9/11/20, 10:04 AM
> I’ve read long ago about programs that scriptwriters use to help plot outlines and keep a handle on what’s going on. > Plotting is one of my favorite parts of the writing process! I don't want AI doing it for me. Thing is, for me, the plot comes first, which it clearly did not in BOOK ONE. That's what complicated this. Fortunately, I figured it out!
9/11/20, 3:05 AM
You might have been making it up, but it became a cohesive story and one that many of us enjoyed reading. I always hoped there'd be a sequel, so many possibilities. I've gotta say, the fellow who borrowed the idea, the one where the gov stepped in and made the symbiots into rubber drones and killed off the great one with round up... he had a good story too. Kinda hoped he'd continue his version too. Like alternate universes...
9/11/20, 1:45 AM
Absaman, 15 years later, this story still blows my mind and remains one of my greatest fantasies. So glad to see you coming back to it and giving us more still. It may have gone out of control, as you say, but in a way, that made it so much hotter. Thank you for sharing your stories, and trust that we're still here desiring more.
nycboot
9/11/20, 1:10 AM
I know people in the forum have spoken about how artificial intelligence program can help write stories. But I've read long ago about programs that scriptwriters use to help plot outlines and keep a handle on what's going on. This enables scriptwriters to create more complex plots. I don't know what these programs are called....maybe another reader does.
9/10/20, 5:25 PM
I really enjoyed this story! It was kind of sweet and again, really well written!
9/10/20, 4:28 PM
> What a cliffhanger! And you’ve kept us hanging on that cliff for about 15 years now. > > A cliffhanger of 15 years. I am very excited to see it continue. > I know! It's going to be like waking up after a coma. The truth is when I finished BOOK ONE in 2006, I was pretty much done with this series, over it. I'd been writing it for the better part of a year and I felt it was all terribly out of control -- my own fault, I had no plot for it. I was making it up as I went along -- I freely confess that. So I had been sort of dreading returning to it for years, especially because I didn't know what I wanted to do with it. That said, I'm honestly surprised at how much fun I've been having playing in this garden again. As I write this comment, I'm about five chapters in to the new material and I haven't been getting anywhere closer to any kind of plot resolution. I'm worried I'm going to be writing a BOOK THREE about this time next year. Shudder. Here's one difference: I've actually had to start keeping track of my plot threads, especially now, as they start to dovetail into each other. It's been a LONG TIME since I've actually had to write a plot down. But in BOOK ONE where I was just tracing the line (branch) of the symbionts-takeover, I was spreading out -- in BOOK TWO, I'm trying to craft something out of it, and I'm bringing it all together. I'm legit excited for you all to take the journey with me -- and I love hearing myself say that about this story!
9/10/20, 4:07 PM
A cliffhanger of 15 years. I am very excited to see it continue.
9/10/20, 3:51 PM
What a cliffhanger! And you've kept us hanging on that cliff for about 15 years now.
9/10/20, 1:19 PM
> Mike Milano’s transformation in the stand-alone version is almost better than any of those in the series > They had a way bigger budget for the movie.