Ask the Author: L.M. Whitaker
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L.M. Whitaker
So, daily writing and new stories are two completely different processes.
For New Stories - I have a wonderful friend that sends me cool science articles, usually from The New York Times. For example - he sent me an article on rats getting infrared vision, and that was the inspiration for Titanium Web - that idea reminded me that the Guardians would see the next level of human evolution as technological. (ie: transhumanism).
For daily inspiration - I tend to find I get my best ideas when I'm not trying too hard. I will think about whatever is next in the story - a chapter or a scene - either while running in the woods or drifting off to sleep. That's usually when things fall into place for me.
For New Stories - I have a wonderful friend that sends me cool science articles, usually from The New York Times. For example - he sent me an article on rats getting infrared vision, and that was the inspiration for Titanium Web - that idea reminded me that the Guardians would see the next level of human evolution as technological. (ie: transhumanism).
For daily inspiration - I tend to find I get my best ideas when I'm not trying too hard. I will think about whatever is next in the story - a chapter or a scene - either while running in the woods or drifting off to sleep. That's usually when things fall into place for me.
L.M. Whitaker
Updated Jan 2023 -
I'm hard at work on The 3rd Georgia Steele Book.
The inspiration comes from a New York Time Article. Researchers converted a movie into a DNA sequence and inserted it into bacteria.
So I thought - What if we discovered a pattern hidden within the DNA in our own human cells?
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Also - Georgia is going to take her fight TO the Guardians this time. Buckle Up!
I'm hard at work on The 3rd Georgia Steele Book.
The inspiration comes from a New York Time Article. Researchers converted a movie into a DNA sequence and inserted it into bacteria.
So I thought - What if we discovered a pattern hidden within the DNA in our own human cells?
Here's the original post -
Also - Georgia is going to take her fight TO the Guardians this time. Buckle Up!
L.M. Whitaker
You get to create your own world, which is infinitely more ____ than the one we have to live in (and, depending upon your mood, you can fill in the blank differently each day!)
Today I need to more....
Exciting
Interesting
Dangerous
Passionate
Cool
Revolting
Etc!
Today I need to more....
Exciting
Interesting
Dangerous
Passionate
Cool
Revolting
Etc!
L.M. Whitaker
I'm enamored with and awed by historical scientists. (Read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and see if you are too!)...
While pondering Darwin and his colleagues, 150 years ago, I wondered what have happened if the early discoverers of evolution decide to take matters into their own hands?
In 1869, Sir Francis Galton, ½ cousin to Darwin, hugely contributed to early statistics and many other fields. He also coined the terms Eugenics and Nature versus Nurture. Intro to his Hereditary Genius book...
“it would be quite practicable to produce a highly-gifted race of men� I conclude that each generation has enormous power over the natural gifts of those that follow, and …we owe to humanity to investigate the range of that power, and to exercise it in a way that� shall be most advantageous to future inhabitants of the earth."
Assuming that this happened in secret, and our group became the Guardians of Mankind...how would that manifest itself today? What would the new race of humans look like? To me, clearly nothing so short-sighted as a single race…but rather mixing races by carefully selecting individuals with superior traits.
Next, what would the Guardians think of the way average humans have screwed up the planet? Climate change, draining of the earth’s resources and mass extinction level events. Our secret society still has a long way to go, having had less than 10 generations to perfect humans, when it will take many more. How would they react?
While pondering Darwin and his colleagues, 150 years ago, I wondered what have happened if the early discoverers of evolution decide to take matters into their own hands?
In 1869, Sir Francis Galton, ½ cousin to Darwin, hugely contributed to early statistics and many other fields. He also coined the terms Eugenics and Nature versus Nurture. Intro to his Hereditary Genius book...
“it would be quite practicable to produce a highly-gifted race of men� I conclude that each generation has enormous power over the natural gifts of those that follow, and …we owe to humanity to investigate the range of that power, and to exercise it in a way that� shall be most advantageous to future inhabitants of the earth."
Assuming that this happened in secret, and our group became the Guardians of Mankind...how would that manifest itself today? What would the new race of humans look like? To me, clearly nothing so short-sighted as a single race…but rather mixing races by carefully selecting individuals with superior traits.
Next, what would the Guardians think of the way average humans have screwed up the planet? Climate change, draining of the earth’s resources and mass extinction level events. Our secret society still has a long way to go, having had less than 10 generations to perfect humans, when it will take many more. How would they react?
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