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Fame and Money Velocity

Posted on March 10, 2017 By Jackson Allen

Was reading an interesting tidbit on the Internet yesterday about the misbehavior of the CEO of Chipotle. I’ve never cared for or about Chipotle, personally. You don’t need them after you to go the El Paso Taqueria on Blair Street, anyway. The negative notoriety reinforces something I’ve known for a long time about fame and why…

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O’Reilly Auto Parts Hid a BTTF Easter Egg in Their Catalog

Posted on March 9, 2017 By Jackson Allen

Great Scott! Someone posted a link to this hilarious easter egg on Reddit. O’Reilly has a functioning Flux Capacitor on their online store catalog. You can’t buy it, it’s permanently unavailable, so I suspect that it may simply be in there for QA testing (darn you, nerds!). It’s funny all the same. Does this mean…

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The Path to the Dark Side

Posted on March 8, 2017 By Jackson Allen

Sigh … Another week, another round of stories about reboots. Disney is planning to reboot TRON and Scarlett Johansson is starring in a reboot of Ghost in the Shell. Despite my hopeful words about reboots a few weeks ago, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that reboots and legasequels are still a thing. The ship of our genre doesn’t…

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Precision Takes Time

Posted on March 7, 2017 By Jackson Allen

Some brief thoughts after finishing the first draft of ‘Victoria Crater.’ It took me MUCH longer than I expected to write this short story. I took breaks to re-focus my brain on telling the right story and use the right style. It’s harder than it looks. I asked myself over and over again, am I…

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DONE – The Battle of Victoria Crater Out for Comments

Posted on March 5, 2017 By Jackson Allen

DONE. DONE, DONE AND DONE. It’s taken four months of grinding, but I’m happy to say that the first draft of ‘Victoria Crater’ is complete. Under normal circumstances, it shouldn’t take four months to write thirteen-thousand words, but VC was an experiment for me. I had to develop a whole new writing style to bring…

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Okay, You Can Stop Writing Dystopian SciFi Now

Posted on March 1, 2017 By Jackson Allen

I’ve been a fan of Edward R. Murrow, ever since I saw ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ twelve years ago. Amazing movie, great cast, gripping tension. What’s always made it stand out as a historical drama is the fact that its director (George Clooney) more or less told the story as it actually happened. I…

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We Will Sell No Whine Before It Is Time

Posted on February 28, 2017 By Jackson Allen

I’ve been remiss in posting here because I like to wait for the right spark to strike before I start slamming away at the keys. In general, I like to have something to say before I blog, and current events have trumped overall sci-fi discussions. I’m keeping busy; still tinkering away at the Battle of…

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Torture You Can Live With

Posted on February 21, 2017 By Jackson Allen

Two rejection notices for short stories. Submitting them elsewhere and refusing to give up! Short Stories Roadmap is Updated Rejection never feels good, but if you’re a creative person, you have to learn to live with it. I remember an interview with Jerry Seinfeld in which he described the process of writing comedy every day….

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State of the Art – 2/20/2017

Posted on February 21, 2017 By Jackson Allen

Late winter in Eugene is always a tough time of year. Introverts love it, though. As dark, wet and cold as it is out there, I have a perfect reason to stay inside. On with life stuff and writing. I’m getting good feedback about ‘The Battle of Victoria Crater,’ and I’m hoping to submit it…

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Another Sci-Fi Wallpaper

Posted on February 18, 2017 By Jackson Allen

Another wallpaper for you … experimenting with different processes to achieve photorealistic sci-fi

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My name is Jackson Allen. My intention is to be a self-sufficient science fiction author. I spend my time actively writing, querying, submitting neo-Golden Age scifi and I analyze future trends, asking: "how can new tech and innovation help kids feel excited about the future?" Lots of self-published shorts - actively querying for a formal, mainstream publication house.

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