Make A MILK RUN Scene Ending Choice- Option 2

Here’s an opportunity for you to choose between two scene endings for the new military SciFi Space Battle- MILK RUN! You can indicate your choice via the comment section of this post. Just to review, MILK RUN is a military SciFi novel about a young captain fresh out of space command school on his first mission as captain of the USS Princeton, an old destroyer class spacecraft. But what our hero thought would be an…

Make A MILK RUN Scene Ending Choice- Option 1

Here’s an opportunity for you to choose between two scene endings for the new military SciFi Space Battle- MILK RUN! You can indicate your choice via the comment section of this post. Just to review, MILK RUN is a military SciFi novel about a young captain fresh out of space command school on his first mission as captain of the USS Princeton, an old destroyer class spacecraft. But what our hero thought would be an…

MILK RUN Update

Hi All! It’s taking me a bit longer to complete the next scene chapter for my new military SciFi novel MILK RUN. That’s because, unlike the other scenes posted, this is literally a brand new scene. The earlier scenes were created about six years ago. But I got writer’s block and things got real busy at the office. So, I stopped the project. Picking up where I left off, those scenes required less rework and…

Thanks and Wishes for a Happy 2023 New Year

Hello all!  It’s only a few hours before we watch the NYC ball drop and march on to 2023! There were plenty of ups and downs for us all.  But let’s face it, you wouldn’t know you were living if it wasn’t for all the pain and strife that somehow fades to happiness, love and peace.   So, my wish for the New Year is that we all work to find common ground with those around…

August 22, 2022 Beta Reader Review Update

Got lots of good feedback from my military SciFi novel MILK RUN beta readers on the idea to change the 17th scene (Standoff!).  The change happens when our hero, Captain Toby Louis is relieved of command on the destroyer class spaceship, USS Princeton, by his second in command, Commander John Emerson.  Some might call it mutiny.  Others might call it saving the ship, its crew and mission.  (Hey! That sounds like a nice tag line,…

It Was Tough To Write

This next chapter scene was hard to write. Yet, for some reason, I keep doing it!  It represents yet another low point for our hero in the story.   Now normally, one would expect to see just one low point in a seven-act story where the hero/heroine feels all is lost.  But for MILK RUN, I felt a double low point is necessary: one to represent a career low and the second a more personal low.   The…