Thesis Novel Subject is Now Official…Ack!

The class I’m taking right now for my MFA is Speculative Fiction Writing II – it’s one of the classes I have looked forward to the most, and even though we’re only a couple of weeks in I’ve already learned so much!

The slightly scary thing is that this is the class where we finally have to commit to our thesis novel. I came into the program with a novel drafted that wasn’t edited and one 3/4 under way, but from the beginning I thought it would be a good idea to use the program as a way to write a new book. And not only am I trying a new book, but a new genre as well – science fiction.

So my thesis novel, tentatively titled “The Bins” is sort of Casablanca meets Firefly with a female space rogue as my lead character. It’s also inspired by the history of World War I (there is no clear cut “evil empire”) so I’ve worked a little bit of history nerd in there as well.

In this class I have to write two big scenes for it and officially commit – so here’s hoping that I’m being bold and not just crazy!