Director's Cut
On: The Evolution of an Author
Lukas Lettercast began writing before he had developed any practical sense of scope, restraint, or how many characters a novel could reasonably contain. None of those conditions have improved.
Over time, writing became less of a hobby and more of a chronic condition. He moved among science fiction, horror, poetry, and speculative fiction, whatever genre best suited the particular problem occupying his brain that week. Some of Lukas’s earlier work appeared under previous names. Those publications remain part of the same creative lineage, even if the organism responsible has since undergone substantial revision.
While all this was happening, Lukas developed an increasingly serious interest in anthropology. That interest led him into archaeology, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, human evolution, mortuary practices, GIS, photogrammetry, and remote sensing. He now spends a significant portion of his life thinking about dead people, ancient landscapes, and the traces humans leave behind. Questions about identity, bodies, institutions, survival, memory, death, and human adaptation now move freely between Lukas’s academic and creative work. A research project may become a story. A story may produce a research question.
Today, Lukas maintains an unreasonable number of active projects, studies the dead, writes the future, and calls the resulting chaos a full life.
... He's also kind of a slut.
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