Borg Dreams: Updates and Analysis

I've decided to catalogue a bit of what I'm doing here. Alot of people are interested in the process of writing and often ask authors how they do it and how they get their ideas. I thought it'd be interesting to keep some notes as I'm pretty much learning this stuff now. At the least it will be interesting for me to come back and look at it later, and see what I was thinking, be it good or bad.

The first story in the Borg Dreams series is under way, and is going to be a short story. The idea came from a mix of horror and "alternate reality" ideas inspired by Stephen King, numerous Twilight zone episodes and other horror and sci-fi as well as the already (partially) created Borg Dreams back story. It leaves much open and hints at alot of what's to come.

For now, the outline is finished but I'm doing some research and imagination into technologies and events of the world this takes place in. It does take place on Earth in a time not far off from our own, which makes for an easy starting point. Aside from sci-fi and horror, the series is also going to take alot from cyber-punk and various dystopian/utopian literature.

This being my first attempt at a major story, I'm not setting any deadlines, but I am setting aside two days a week when I'm not alowed to do anything but work on this, so I can be sure to be getting somewhere. Once I know my own writing habits better, I'll be able to give myself more of a schedule.

For the curious, there will be at least 3 types of interstellar travel. Warp, Hyper, and Wormhole (though they may have different names) and possibly an extra one between Hyper and Wormhole, a type of "trans-warp" or "super-warp" (still looking for a name) that relies on some ideas of string theory and M-theory. You can see my comments on warp and wormhole travel in earlier posts.