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When my Facebook writing group Skywriters announced that they were doing an anthology themed around rings, at first I wasn’t interested.
I always found this theme-based style of writing too restricted. I prefer to write where my imagination takes me, not the other way around.
So I ignored the invitation, but somewhere in my mind, my imagination played with the idea, dissecting it, turning the pieces over, until one night inspiration came streaming. I decided to offer a story of my own.
I came up with a red gas giant, unnamed at the time. Surrounding this planet is a ring of dust, rocks, and ice. People must go there for some reason, but the environment is dangerous.
Then I started to write, and after several drafts and help from Skywriters, I created Mining Gyegan’s Ring. Here’s the basic idea of […]