Looking Into Deep Space

It’s fascinating the things I find myself peering into when writing this Science Fiction Ghost Story. I am relaxing into the process now that I am seeing the fruit of my labors. Writing a novel which entails deep space exploration has been a challenging and enlightening endeavor. Writing a novel is the process of turning chaos into prose – nearly impossible really. But I’ve decided to relax and enjoy the things I love while I write. One of which is space.

This planet scientists call ‘Poltergeist’. It’s a super creepy Pulsar planet documented PSR B1257+12 c, and is an extrasolar planet approximately 2,300 light-years away”….

Other wonderful mysteries of deep space are lurking within the coffers of the web. If I’m going to traverse the galaxy, I figure I better understand our own Local Group first. Vast and various are the Lord’s magnificent displays…

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings backlit by the sun and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. We look like another star from 898 million miles away.

Take a look at our vast Milky Way and beyond to our closest neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. Let’s take a weekend trip, what do ya say? Pack a light picnic; the particle accelerating spacecraft is outback…

I have nearly completed the second draft which fleshed out the story and characters bringing the theme into greater form. My third writing will be adding the voice and writing the novel. I’m excited!

Hope everyone is enjoying Spring. When my mind and pen are not among the stars, I am enjoying the green grass and bird songs of the season…

Have a beautiful week lovely people, and don’t forget to look up and admire the great expanse above our heads~

If you want an excellent book on the writing process, Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a good start.

2 thoughts on “Looking Into Deep Space

  1. Oh good another sci-fi book ! It is a genre I have always loved – perhaps because I studied sciences and Maths at university… And King’s book is quite fascinating for readers even if they will never be writers .

    1. Ashley Gatewood

      Yes, I’d recommend that book if only for the last few pages written about his experience getting run over by the truck. It shook my world.
      Hope all is well Rukshana:) Enthusiastic sci-fi readers like you inspire me to keep at it when the going gets tough!

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