Fun, but hard work too.  I am cruising right along and enjoying every minute of it.  It is amazing how the ideas just start to flow and everything starts to build a cohesive plot, and characters form personalities and pretty soon you have your own little world built!

I didn't realize I would use so much of my writing time building back story and writing character histories that you don't even see on the printed page.  (Guess that is how J.K. Rowling knew Dumbledore was gay but we hadn't a clue until she outs him in an interview and not a book.)

Being a SF/F fan for so many years, and reading voraciously in the genre has led me naturally to write in it as well.  I think making up worlds is maybe harder than writing about the one we already know.  Sure, you get to create whatever rules you want for it, but they have to be believable within that whole fantasy scope.

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