The Super Bowl and some travel kept me away from my blog for a few days. I am back and back to work. I write by the seat of my pants, so to speak. Yeah, I do some planning as to where I want the plot to go, but mostly I sit down, start writing, and let the characters dictate the journey. It is very revealing when I am writing, I seem to live the book. Not by actual action, but in my mind. I eat, sleep, and talk the book 24/7. When my wife has heard enough, she puts up her palm and says, "to many words, Steve." One thing I worry about is the length of book I, Evolvere - The Birth, it is 146,000 words. I have heard from agents and editors, and have read in guidelines that a first book should be between 80k to 110k in length. I could shorten my book, but I think the plot would suffer greatly.


Word for the day: Cloning. In our modern world today, most everyone knows what cloning means: to create an identical copy. Human cloning has the same goal; to create an genetically identical copy of a human. In 1998 the first human clone was created by Advanced Cell Technologies. The first that was publicly announced. There may be a cloning underground that operates in secret. Who knows? They took a cell from a man's leg and a cow's egg with the DNA removed and created a genetically identical human clone. It was destroyed on the 12th day since a normal embryo implants at 14 days.