I completed writing the short story, that will function as material for my space opera short subject. It has drama, it has intrigue, it has complete vagueness and it’s still a work-in-progress. But, the work will progress faster now that I have something to work with. I basically have the whole picture in my head, [...]

Space opera is such a great (sub)genre of fiction. You can totally let everything go and fully intrigue yourself with the big unknown of space and its “they-do-exist-no-they-don’t” inhabitants. The stories are literally endless — where you are limited by known-facts when writing fiction that takes place on Earth, you’re not-so when writing about stuff [...]