https://wadefrancis.com/tags/writing-constraints/ Recent content in writing constraints on Wade Francis | Science Fiction Author Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:53:03 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/whispers-update-2/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:53:03 +1100 https://wadefrancis.com/blog/whispers-update-2/ When Physics Says No: The Idea That Broke My First Chapter Every author eventually kills a darling. Sometimes it’s a clunky paragraph or an unnecessary character. In my case, it was the entire opening concept. Originally, Whispers in the Dark began with an ambitious idea: an advanced telescope system capable of chaining gravitational lenses together. The goal was simple and wild — to “untangle” light bent around massive objects, reconstruct it with staggering computing power, and see further back in time than ever before.