I'm sure you've received an ask along these lines before, but what originally got you into writing? On a more specific note, where did you originally find inspiration to write the Chronicles of Terra's Grace? Love your writing, and hope you're having an excellent week.
I don't know that I've ever gotten an ask like this before! Certainly not recently/about The Chronicles of Terra's Grace specifically. I don't know that I can say definitively what got me into writing, because I have been writing for as long as I could hold a pencil.
The first story I remember writing (though I am sure there were ones before this) was when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old and was about a fairy who had to go on a quest to find a magical flower that could heal her baby brother from a deadly illness. I read a LOT as a kid: I was reading chapter books in kindergarten, and I instinctively absorbed the conventions of how to write, the grammar and formatting and how sentences and paragraphs worked. I was writing more stylistically correct passages when I was in early elementary school than some people do in college. I wrote my first completed "book" when I was in 4th-5th grade, which was about 13,000 words. My second would have been when I was in middle school, and it was about 20,000 words. (There were many other false starts to stories that I wrote maybe 2000-10000 words of but never finished). I still have those "books". I haven't looked at them in a long time, but I should take a peek at them and see how well they hold up, lol.
In high school, I discovered fanfiction! Cut my teeth on Doctor Who fic when I was 13 and never looked back, lol. I finished my next original novel when I was 15-17 (I say finished...I am still working on like a 4th draft of this novel, which has haunted me severely for over ten years now lmao. Emory Briat I will never, ever abandon you, my love...). I haven't finished an original novel in a long time, but I'm working on multiple on and off, and hopefully will have one actually finished someday.
But as for Terra's Grace, I don't remember exactly what my thought process was at first besides "Man, I would love to write a fic about Grace getting to interact with humans again. Also wouldn't Earth want to send a mission to Erid to at least make sure that they got the Taumoeba?" But! I DO have my very first notes to myself about it where I was figuring out the logistics, and I figure this is a fun place to get to share those, so!
Visitors to Erid fic could be biting off more than i can chew BUT it sounds fun so im gonna try
The ship theyre using is essentially a generation ship that a wealthy government started building before Sol was saved. It was unfinished bc that government collapsed and the project was basically put up for auction and bought by…here are some options:
A) egotistical billionaire who just wants to do smth Notable B) NASA C) a private space exploration company owned in whole or in part by one of Grace's students
Oh yeah okay that last one is the only good option huh
They dont OWN the company maybe but they work for it and have been pushing and pushing for this mission to 40-Eridani literally since the beetles with the Taumoeba and Grace's videos arrived
It took 5 years after that for them to put the mission together, but theyre the captain
So...in normal/planetary/not relativistic time: Grace 13 years from Earth to Tau Ceti Grace 1 year in space Beetles take 11 years back to Earth 1 year to fix Sol 16 years for Sol's light to reach Erid
42 years from when Grace started the mission til when he knew it has succeeded...wack
That cant be right, but whatever
Surely Grace wasn't 29 when he left earth??
He was mid 30s. Where did i add years
No I'm not stupid, Grace is. the math doesnt check out. it's fine it's whatever i dont even care (lying)
We've got two of grace's students on the Terra's Grace: Dr. Imara Stone and Yiming Hart
I think the crew is like, pretty big. Like 40 people on the ship big, with lots of redundancies
I mean, theyre going to meet aliens. Of course they bring lots of weird experts. I think there's two therapists/psychologists too. One of them is a behavior specialist/counselor and the other is also a psychiatrist who manages medications for everyone on board. Two doctors, one who is a physical therapist and does internal medicine/medication management and the other who can manage surgeries and medical emergencies and such. A linguist. Two anthropologists. Maybe i actually need to put together a ship manifest document instead of babbling about it here...
Which is when I started a document where all of my notes about the crew and plans for the fic went!
I hope you enjoyed this little ramble, thank you so much for asking about this topic and for caring about my silly story! <3
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