Writing - Manuscripts


Marie and Scott started writing together back in the mid 90s. Over the years they've worked intensely on projects for a time, and then laid low for awhile.

Here is a smattering of their completed and in-process manuscripts over the years.


The Halcyon Project

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inception: September, 1995
completion: November, 1996
words: 118,500

The Halcyon Project was the first project that Marie and Scott collaborated on.

It was during the development of this storyline that their cooperative and complimentary style began to emerge.

Traces of Terror

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inception: November, 1998
completion: August, 1999
words: 95,700

Traces Of Terror is the second manuscript for Marie and Scott. Scott was afraid that the first manuscript, (The Halcyon Project), had just been a fluke.

Again, Marie took the lead and began developing a timeline for the short story they'd written when first exploring this topic.

The result is an action packed story that examines questions about how we perceive and define morality.

Halcyon II

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inception: June, 1999
completion: not yet
words: 40,000

Halcyon II came about as a logical progression in writing discipline. The exercise was to continue the storyline from the first manuscript - as if it had been enormously successful and a sequel was now required.

Although still a work in progress, Halcyon II has a completely blocked out structure with well developed extensions to the original characters.

The Existence Paradigm

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inception: January, 2000
completion: not yet
words: 60,000

The Existence Paradigm began as nothing more than a collection of thoughts and observations about what's out there and how we fit into that picture (you know, that whole "meaning of life" thing re-hashed again).

Over the years, through multiple conversations, some of these ideas grew and became so intriguing that we were compelled to develop them into stories in order to provide a more engaging vehicle for their presentation.

Dependence

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inception: September, 1995
completion: November, 1996
words: 118,500

Have we become so totally dependent on technology that we are now incapable of living without it?

Have we abdicated our own future completely to the throne of AI?