I have mostly kept the same, first person kick arse female protagonist that I use for my fantasy works. Though the voice and the details about the characters are always different, it does help a little towards my goal of actually finishing the trilogy.
A small extract: I am not going to surrender. "Prepare for the Jump Gate in three ... two ..." There would be a time when we would lose a race, but it would not be today. Bex's voice blazed through my earpiece.
"Are you insane? The Gate is going to tear us apart!" The imbecile. I thought he wanted to win just as badly as I did. Wasn't it all about going to the SPL (The Slipstream Premier League)? Hadn't that been our dream right from the beginning? We were very nearly there. Bex would soon learn what it meant not to give up. Raising the white flag wouldn't be practical to our goals. My goals. He had to see that. Our craft just happened to be made of stronger stuff than he thought.
"We're going to be fine," I slammed the throttle into position. "One!"
I think its quite good so far for a first draft, but its like pulling teeth at the moment. Try swimming underwater and you'll get the general gist of what it feels like when a fantasy writer tries soft science fiction for the first time in ages -- with actual spaceships, instead of virtual reality a few years into the future.
I managed to look up current hovercrafts, too. http://www.google.co.nz/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT5125470&id=nyUfAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=hovercrafts&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=hovercrafts&f=false
Now, I don't know how to reference the article but what I can say is that this design isn't going to work in space, but it gives me a vague idea of what they're like. Basically, I'm going to have to double and triple check my information, to make sure I've got it right. Along with designing my hovercrafts similar to the pod-races of which Anakin flew in, I'm not going to comment any further on it.
I am going to say that I'm looking forward to the finish line with these characters. They're interesting and I can't wait to write the actual romance between Cameron and Elliot.
Cheers,
Nyxix
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