Yes, I've done some: Got the outline to the place where I stopped writing a couple years ago... You see, though I love microbiology, and have done some of the Amateur Study on it, I am by no means an expert in the field. So it makes me nervous... You know the thing that keeps me going at it? A year or so ago, I read <i>Vitals</i> by Greg Bear, my absolute favorite sf author... partially because he writes about microbiology stuff too! And well, I wrote him fan mail, something I only ever do if I'm insanely fanatic about the person's writing. So he and Tamora Pierce are the only ones who've ever received it from me... (*G*<lj user = "jimhines">, I'm not counting you because I know where you live -- in here!)
Well, so anyway I wrote him fanmail, and -- gasp -- got a reply! I'd told him that reading his book got me inspired to work on the bac book I had in the hopper because I had run into a dry spell with it... he actually said he was looking forward to seeing it in the stores someday! Ohhh, gasp...
So that's what keeps me going back to it, and well I was working on it last on the night of my latest Near Death Experience (the finale of Battlestar Galactica will be forever entwined with that in my mind) back a few months ago...
But, having finished Nirvana, I've gotten a sensation like I'm not doing anything, so I decided to work on this book again -- hopefully to finish it this time!
Of late, I'm still doing the outline/Holly Lisle version, but my version includes research, which today means making the Maze that the Neo Bacs on Phobos need to go through so that I have a clear visual I can refer to...
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