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Drafting

The Kuiper Dominion, the third book in the NASA Engineer series that started with The Martian Incident

34/45 chapters drafted

Editing

In Pentagon Review

The Saturn Anomaly, the dual-timeline sequel to my hit The Martian Incident

Crush Depth, the chilling deep sea technothriller sequel to Lag Delay

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End of May/Beginning of June 2026

A much better month in terms of writing, but still no traction on my two novels in the Pentagon security review. The Saturn Anomaly and Crush Depth I pinged the Pentagon on the 4th of May, no joy – they’re both still in “component review.” I’ll ping them again sometime this summer. There’s precedent though – both…

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AI and Writing – Part 2 The Good and the Bad

Well this is a hot topic right now… Last post, I showed why AI is a bad drafter. But there’s a lot that an LLM can do, and it’s not all bad – just don’t have it write any words for you! I’ll break this post into two categories – what I’ve found that AI…

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Improving the Process

2 months ago I wrote a post on inefficiency following on from a previous post on wasted words. I’ve been a very inefficient writer over the last decade – I just trashed most of a half-complete 45,000 word draft! But I’m getting better, and this is how. Heavy Outlining I’ll admit it – I’m lazy.…

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