I didn’t make any substantial progress with the novel last night. I did manage to type up about a thousand words. I have found that once I get into my creative zone (which wasn’t last night), I really don’t want to stop writing down new ideas and plot lines.
In the novel, I have a alien scientist named Mikash on a planet called Zaigosh. Mikash needs an assistant, so that they can have a dialogue to reveal Mikash’s thoughts and plans. I have named this assistant Psotto, but I have yet to develop him at all in terms of character, which I want to do. I need to examine what the plot demands of him.
Yesterday, a former colleague/acquaintance was showing me and some other his new Tesla, which has a computer screen vs. a dashboard. This was a mind-blower for me in a couple of ways. On Zaigosh, the cars are all magnetic levitation driven with computer screens instead of dashboards. I thought I was being very forward thinking in coming up with this idea, only to find out that Elon Musk has already done it. Am I so far behind the times that my ideas of the future are already part of the present?
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 