Woo! Happy to hear Mechanics of Fiction Writing is getting some love. It’s both very different from typical internet writing advice and extremely insightful. I would love to see more in the Rowe Writes series.
Thanks, MJ! More Rowe Writes is on the way. I've had one recorded for "The Vault" for ages and haven't had a chance to edit the audio. Soon. Also thinking about doing one for "Mouse." We'll see how the next few weeks go.
I would like to add my thanks to the growing number of other listeners who are enjoying your work. I'm looking forward to hearing more in the coming year. Thank you for sharing your remarkable talent.
Thank you for sharing your craft with us. I bought several copies of your book and am passing them out, asking they be paid forward. I love to hear the next story. I love your AI artwork btw;) CJ
I would, too. Experiences are one thing we get to keep and if there is more after I expect they will go with us. KennyJoe, keep that recliner warm. I’m doing the same here. InscrutableJohn
A good story with fair suspense mitigated by intelligence and preparedness. Welcome back this New Year and I'm looking forward to a 2024 with your imaginings and narrations. Tally-ho 😊!!
In the words of Dak Prescott -" HERE WEEE GOOO!" Another great story and I eagerly look forward to more. Especially more about what happened with Birch? You Goo Roowe! Enjoying it all!
Thanks, MrIzzy! Yeah... Here we go! 😃 The fun part of looking back on 2023 was realizing I had no idea where it would take us. If 2023 is any indication, I think we'll meet some interesting new people in some amazing new places 🚀
dang Cowboys Daked the bed that was horrible. sorry to conflate football with your beautiful story. Well as for the next. story about space pirates - can we get a parrot on the shoulder - if its not too late. parrots are amazing.
Gotta add to other comments. Your technical approach to problem solving suggests you can be handy at any level of tech. Feels like real science (fiction). I think Asimov's and EE Doc Smith would be proud (and I could use a hand fixing the projects in my garage.
Thanks, Johnny! Would it surprise you to hear that I was inspired to write a story like this by working on my brakes in November? 😂 Fortunately, I didn't have to live in my car for the three days I was working on it!
Thanks, Karl! I suppose you could take the opposite position too 😂 I'm not sure I'd like to be a character in one of my books, let alone somebody else's!
Having been a lover of science fiction for.75 years, you are a favorite up there with Asimov and Bradbury and Lewis. Ive read all the good ones. Love your work and i know whats is good.
Thanks, Linda 🙏😃Humbling to read such a thing, as those are some heavy names in my book! The best I can aspire to is write the best I can each week and hope it connects with people in a meaningful way. Glad to hear it did with you!
Just subscribed to your mechanics of fiction channel - looking forward to learning new things!!! And wow an excellent story as we enter 2024, full of tension, anticipation, hope and deliverance. Awesome!!!
I keep finding more titles I didn’t catch due to the weighting of the YT selection algorithm. It’s great to be able to say that I’ve yet to read a dud. I’m not sure how P.E. has managed to get a hit with every pitch, but I’m enjoying my good fortune. Not many folks I know read SCIFI, but the couple I do have gotten my recommendations and I’ve been told they lied what they read. About a million years ago I wrote a SCI-FI multi part story that I’m proud to say got rejected too many time LD to count. So I’m now living vicariously through the positive feedback on this channel even though I’ve got nothing to do with it. I do say proud though, because when I started it i did follow through with more than one submission and ten times as many re-writes. So, Rowe Here you go! Your work is great. I’ve been rejected enough To know! Thank you.
Thanks, John! I have no major secrets. All of them are in my Mechanics series on my other channel 😃 One thing that's for sure though is every writer who sticks with it knows what rejection after rejection feels like, including myself. Once upon a time I pinned my form rejections to the wall to motivate me. For the record, though, I have to admit the positive feedback in these comments is far higher octane fuel 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
I love these. You’re really talented. And I don’t say that often. Who cries at short stories? Apparently I do. Edit: I just read your Amazon bio. Yeah. 2 Masters degrees in Literature ? You def didn’t need my opinion😂
Thanks, Kitka! It's a joy to share them 😃 Edit: That doesn't mean I don't value your opinion, though. Also, I think a lot of people cry over stories when they find them meaningful. Humbled when they're mine 🙏
@RoweLit I too admire and enjoy the writing, concepts explored, excellent tension and emotional build/ release, and the very pleasant narration. Having read 50 years of books not sure I ever said that before. As for my comment "it was a dark and stormy night".
Mr. Rowe can weave well rounded characters that you actually care about and dynamic adventures through a plethora of fantasticaly intricate solar systems full of high drama, emotion, and just great stories that i truly enjoy and am grateful to have found his talent! The earth is a brighter place for having him in it!
I’m back from a break from the channel for a few months. I loved the misfits and just finished listening to the recap and am now back and enjoying the brave one. I’m now ready to get back into the new stories can’t wait thanks for sharing. 🇦🇺🌌
@@RoweLit noway man!! I'm vacuum sealing it and storing it for the inevitable day it becomes a best seller... then I can boast that I have a first edition copy!! 😁
Thanks Fellover! Very curious 🤔 For scientific writing, or for fiction writers who are scientists? I've spent a lot of time trying to develop writing pedagogy in STEM disciplines. So I can vouch 😂
@@RoweLit I mean for science writing, but there is inevitable crossover, both in terms of scientists having fun and sci fi fans becoming encourged to enter science. Take Carl Sagan, for example. Far more people can quote a line from Contact than from Demon Haunted World. The current state of affairs is intolerably high scientific illiteracy.
Oh, man, Sagan. "That's here. That's home. That's us. ..." Never got credit as deserved for the prose stylist he was, but that essay is among the most beautiful and profound composed in any language, much less English. Should be required reading/listening/watching for humans. Humans. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GO5FwsblpT8.html One of one.
50 years?Stranger things have happened. Between leap year and daylight savings time do really know what time it is? Nevermind a sun in a suitcase and a black hole inside an ancient ship hidden amongst dusty asteroids that has the ability to send us anywhere at anytime for an undisclosed amount of time. I was sort of expecting the bipahl that is the Ship Yankee Chaos who can also take human form was about to come out of the storage hold with the sabaka sticks saying" Time we don't need no stinking time."
Thanks for the feedback, Shane. I'd love to, but at this stage, that's just not possible right now. I couldn't afford to commission an artist for every thumbnail, as much as I wish I could. Best I can do is commit to making sure my book covers are made by a talented, working human artist. If it drives you crazy to see, the stories are on audio only through my Substack link.
Beautifully written. Your ability to end the story inducing so much emotion is masterful. I love how you tie into almost forgotten details and make them into profound moments. Every passenger provided something- insight, conversation, drone skills, etc. an athlete that had no beneficial knowledge and even rarely mentioned in the story played the most important role in the very end. A role that required what only she could provide at the most extreme time of need. 🤌
