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Airships: Over or Not?

Looking to write some steampunk. And wondering: are airships overdone?

Done ... and done.

In which I finish an epic fantasy-novel draft in epif fashion, and contemplate a glorious future.

How Tex Avery's gag man taught me how to write a novel

Seriously.

When I was in my early twenties and just getting started out trying to write a “real” novel – as opposed to the rather short porn novels I’d been writing – I found I had no idea what it felt like to write a full-length novel.

Forget the awful challenge of a blank page. This was [...]