In Space, No One Can Hear You Blog
I'm an author and someone mentioned to me -- okay, a lot of someones mentioned to me -- that in order to grow my so-far-nonexistent fan-base, I should have a blog. Probably more than one. A plethora of blogs.
Now, I love writing, but I'm all about the idea of starting small and building up slowly. Mostly because I'm also a busy person who is, at the core, lazier than potentially anyone else in North America.
I mean, I write soft science fiction. Not the hard stuff, because that requires actual scientific knoweldge, or at least actual scientific research. I love my stuff, but I probably fall onto the side of 'softer than the Star Trek Tribbles episode'. We're talking -- I make it up and if I think "hey, it could happen" it's good enough for my form of government work. I'm not into the making it harder than it has to be idea.
So, the mere idea of a blog, let alone a plethora of blogs, daunts me. And the idea that I'm probably doing this for no one and to no one would depress me, if I actually thought about it. However, not thinking is, in reality, 'my thing', so I'm good.
So, here's to the beginning of a beautiful friendship between me and my blog and, one hopes in the deepest part of one's hoping place, some readers who may, one day, become so rabid for my work that they beat down the bookstore doors in order to get my latest brilliantly soft science fiction masterpiece before anyone else.
Hey, it's a dream, okay?
G.J. Koch
Now, I love writing, but I'm all about the idea of starting small and building up slowly. Mostly because I'm also a busy person who is, at the core, lazier than potentially anyone else in North America.
I mean, I write soft science fiction. Not the hard stuff, because that requires actual scientific knoweldge, or at least actual scientific research. I love my stuff, but I probably fall onto the side of 'softer than the Star Trek Tribbles episode'. We're talking -- I make it up and if I think "hey, it could happen" it's good enough for my form of government work. I'm not into the making it harder than it has to be idea.
So, the mere idea of a blog, let alone a plethora of blogs, daunts me. And the idea that I'm probably doing this for no one and to no one would depress me, if I actually thought about it. However, not thinking is, in reality, 'my thing', so I'm good.
So, here's to the beginning of a beautiful friendship between me and my blog and, one hopes in the deepest part of one's hoping place, some readers who may, one day, become so rabid for my work that they beat down the bookstore doors in order to get my latest brilliantly soft science fiction masterpiece before anyone else.
Hey, it's a dream, okay?
G.J. Koch
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posted by G.J. Koch at
11:19 AM
4 Comments:
I've tried my hand at some sci-fi, soft, softer than soft. Good luck with your efforts. Fingers crossed that one of us gets a TV series based on our books, one that runs longer than Gunsmoke!:D
WK, I like where your head's at! And good luck with your work, too. I choose to believe that people LIKE soft science fiction since, you know, it's easier to read. (I'm good with this kind of justification. If you need any, just call, I'm here for you.)
GJK
Not much of a sci-fi reader, but I'll give you a chance to convince me.
MaryL
I love a challenge! Well, okay, not really, but I'll take the challenge, how about that?
What do and don't you like about science fiction? Just so I know if I have a shot or should just shoot myself in the head with a laser right now. LOL
GJK
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