Long story short, after some build-up, about a week ago I was in the hospital, with ambulance ride and IV drip and everything; and I've spent most of the week since then recovering through sleeping. (Best guess: virus, complicated by not being able to keep any calories down.)

Plan for this week: Catch up on what I've been letting slide. Odds of success: moderate. If you're waiting for any responses from me on anything, now's a good time to refresh my memory.

I'm taking a short break from creating "S.I.", and am trying a somewhat different writing exercise: building up an entire story before I start writing any of it, as opposed to the web-serial model I've been trying with S.I.

I'm going for hard science fiction, based around the idea of brain-uploads, something like a Singularity, thinking hard about how to solve problems, and interplanetary exploration and exploitation. The furry content is mainly incidental, but still present, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

I could use all the constructive criticism, commentary, and advice I can get. The current draft of the story design-document is at ...
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I've been writing.

Last May, I took a piece of advice: "Just start writing".

I'm now over 222,222 words into a novel, and counting. You can see my first chapter in my account on FA at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/14787286/ , or at the story's eventual permanent future home at http://www.datapacrat.com/SI/ . (Note: The sample chapter there is NSFW due to containing an image of tasteful female nudity.)

"S.I." contains a protagonist who is transformed by Science! into a humanoid rabbit in the first chapter, includes what could be safely described as 'vore'...
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How much is your life worth to you?

If you suffered from a disease which might strike you down at any time; and a treatment was available, which cost six thousand dollars per year... would you be willing to scrape together that much cash for it? If the best available treatment only had a fifty percent chance of success... would you be willing to pay three thousand a year it? If the best available treatment only had a five percent chance of success... would you be willing to pay three hundred a year for it?

My own answers to all three questions are 'yes'.

After reading and researching about cryonic preservation, my best estimate of its success - that is, eventual revival - is somewhere in the neighbourhood of five percent. I have also learned that...
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