{"id":11450,"date":"2011-02-24T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T21:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11450"},"modified":"2011-02-24T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T21:37:27","slug":"mack-writing-for-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/02\/mack-writing-for-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Mack: Writing For Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Mack<\/strong>, national bestselling author of more than twenty novels and novellas, including <em>Wildfire, Harbinger, Reap the Whirlwind, Precipice, Road of Bones, Promises Broken<\/em>, and the <em>Star Trek Destin<\/em>y trilogy: <em>Gods of Night, Mere Mortals<\/em>, and <em>Lost Souls<\/em>, was interviewed recently for UFOP: Starbase 118, where he spoke about writing for <em>Star Trek<\/em> and writing in general.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbase118.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/an-interview-with-david-mack-2\/\">here<\/a>, topics included: writing as a sole author vs. writing with a group of authors, canon, avoiding stereotypes, villains and advice for aspiring writers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/MackDavid022411.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11451\" title=\"MackDavid022411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/MackDavid022411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to Mack, one of the challenges in writing for <em>Star Trek <\/em>is adhering to canon, even if canon is contradictory (which has happened more than once in <em>Star Trek<\/em>), and keeping characters consistent. &#8220;As for how we do that, few years ago most of us relied on editorial feedback and the <em>Star Trek Encyclopedia<\/em>,&#8221; said Mack. &#8220;These days, e-mails and websites such as <em>Memory Alpha <\/em>and<em> Memory Beta<\/em> have proved to be the greatest resources at our disposal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Mack&#8217;s website is located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitydog.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>UFOP: StarBase 118<\/em> is a Star Trek PBEM RPG that has been in existence for fifteen years. Their website is located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbase118.net\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/UFOP-PBEM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11452\" title=\"UFOP-PBEM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/UFOP-PBEM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/UFOP-PBEM.jpg 350w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/UFOP-PBEM-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Mack, national bestselling author of more than twenty novels and novellas, including Wildfire, Harbinger,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-11450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-mack"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/books\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Books<\/a>","tag_info":"Books","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11453,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11450\/revisions\/11453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}