Blog Roundup: Week of July 29, 2013

On July 29, 2013, with the advent of Boldly Reading, our bloggers really got crackin’!

July 29, 2013 Blog Postings

Michael D. Garcia added his WIP Progress Report for July 2013.

Miranda Fave added Character Delving.

SLWalker started a new blog and added Self-Confidence vs. Self-Defeat, Multiversal Thoughts I, Multiversal Thoughts II, Multiversal Thoughts III, Pebble, I Took My Own Advice, Miranda Wants to Know, Where the Heart Calls Home, This is Why Kev Gets His Own Category, A Random-One-Off Prompt and Consciousness and Quandaries.

FalseBill added Meander Fave Homework on Characters.

jespah added Progress Report – July 2013 and Review – More, More, More!

The new blog prompts generated a boatload of interest.

• The first prompt was about what we at Ad Astra like to read. Miranda Fave, Templar Sora, FalseBill and jespah answered it.
• The second prompt was about what we like to see in a review. Templar Sora, FalseBill and jespah answered it.
• The third prompt, by Templar Sora, asked what we thought of crossovers. FalseBill, Templar Sora, trekfan and jespah answered this prompt.
• The fourth prompt asked about scenes and settings, and world building. Templar Sora, FalseBill and jespah answered it.
• The fifth prompt was about self-promotion. It was answered by jespah.

We also saw some terrific commenting on Boldly Reading as everyone got geared up for the first book review.

Blog Roundup: Week of February 11, 2012

Our second week here at Ad Astra’s new blog community, and do we have a bunch of blogs for you to check out!

Blogs for February 11, 2012

• We start over at trekfan‘s Red Shirt Eulogies, where he spoke not once, not twice, but three times on a “lost” story of his called The Last Generation.
• Unimatrix 0.1 opened this week, helmed by our local Borg Queen and Archive Moderator, kes7, where she wrote a welcome and led a discussion on the effects of using child prodigies in Trek storytelling.
• MDg continues to move Full Speed Ahead with blog posts about recent writing ventures, including the recently completed collaboration with Star Trek: Gibraltar in “The Chains of Error.”
• The breakdown of an original drug used as a plot point and a review of her short story, “Brown,” have been part of jespah‘s Barking Up the Muse Tree this week.
• Starbase G-6 opened this week with a post of welcome and why Enterprise1981 chose the name for his blog.
• “Secrets and Lies” got a behind-the-scenes look over at Ln X’s Musings, where he also tells he why we shouldn’t be afraid of mathematics.
• IntrepidSovereign joined the community this week and opened up Docking Bay #94 for our starships; we got a welcome and an insightful rant on combating personal fears.
• And last, but not least, Miranda Fave talks about his 1,000th review at Ad Astra!  Congratulations, Miranda Fave!

We added four new blogs this week, and we’re looking forward to seeing more thoughts and opinions from our authors here at Ad Astra!

Blog Roundup: Week of February 4, 2012

In our short time of existence, we already have several blogs that are making some noise on various topics:

A look at February 4, 2012

• jespah‘s Barking up the Muse Tree now displays a Portrait of a Character – Leonora (Norri) Digiorno within its gallery.
• Ln X discusses how he got into writing over at Ln X’s Musings.
• trekfan has reported for duty at his Red Shirt Eulogies.
• And MDg checks in at Full Speed Ahead with his explanation on why Ariel Must Die.

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