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Jan 31

Betting on the Void: Why I Had to Kill My Cyberpunk Dostoevsky

When Worldbuilding Sabotages the Soul: A Lesson on Killing Your Darlings.

A digital title card titled ‘SCHRÖDINGER’S WHEEL’ by Sam C. Tomasi in glowing neon blue text against a dark background. The tagline reads: “God does not play dice with the world… but at Roulettenburg Station, we do.” Icons at the bottom indicate “Station Roulettenburg”, “Quantum Fiction”, and “Entropy Critical”.

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Jan 23

Entropy Has No Memory

This is the tentative opening chapter of a novel in progress. The setting is still under review, and the entire draft is likely subject to…

A close-up of a sketchbook page featuring a surreal ink and watercolor drawing. A bright yellow cube floats in the center, with orange, worm-like tentacles erupting from it. The background is a dense, chaotic web of dark black cross-hatching with faint blue accents. Handwritten text is visible on the page below the illustration. Blurred art supplies appear in the background.

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Jan 19

About The Null Coordinate

Welcome to the Null Coordinate.

About The Null Coordinate

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Jan 16

Rewriting Dostoevsky in Space (and Arguing with the Protagonist)

Why 19th-century passivity is fatal in a modern sci-fi thriller.

A close-up photo of a small drawing featuring two intertwined snake-like creatures forming a spiral. Their bodies are patterned with black ink circles and lines, highlighted with yellow watercolor stripes. Two small red tongues protrude from the heads on the left. The background is filled with repeating curved ink lines creating a ripple effect. The drawing stands upright on a dark surface against a solid yellow background.

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Jan 11

Mortgages, Cats, and Dostoevsky in Space

From mortgages to Dostoevsky in space: navigating 2026 with ink, watercolors, and a new web novel.

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Oct 7, 2025

A Guide to Serial Writing — Notes from a Web Novel Deep Dive

A thoughtful summary of everything I learned about dialogue, cliffhangers, narrative genres, and the international market.

A top-down photograph of a drawing sheet labeled ‘#90’ featuring nine hexagon-shaped panels filled with intricate ink patterns and watercolor. The designs are labeled: ‘Static’ (blue zigzags), ‘Tipple’ (orange bubbles), ‘Crescent Moon’ (green curves), ‘Knights Bridge’ (purple checkerboard), ‘Nekton’ (gold cross-hatch), ‘Fescu’ (yellow plant stems), ‘Poke Root’ (pink organic shapes), ‘Festune’ (orange segments), and ‘Hollibaugh’ (blue interlaced straps). Two paintbrushes resting on a paper towel

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Sep 27, 2025

From Idea to Series — The 5 Ingredients for a Successful Web Novel

From theory to practice: how to sift through your notebook of ideas to find the right one for an episodic story.

A top-down photograph of an art workspace featuring four sheets of paper filled with hexagonal pattern studies. Each sheet contains nine hexagons, each filled with a unique Zentangle-style design drawn in black ink and colored with watercolors. The patterns are labeled with names like ‘Mooka’, ‘Flux’, ‘Static’, and ‘Dyon’, and the sheets are numbered #90 through #93. An open Arteza watercolor set, a color swatch chart, and drawing tools including brushes and a dip pen are arranged around

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Aug 26, 2025

How to Create an AI Chat with Gemini in Construct 3

A step-by-step guide using JavaScript to integrate the Gemini API and create intelligent dialogues in your games.

How to Create an AI Chat with Gemini in Construct 3

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Jun 8, 2025

I Have the Tools and the Ideas. So Why Am I Terrified to Write?

This isn’t writer’s block. It’s the paralyzing fear of not being good enough for the stories I know I have to tell.

A close-up photo of a small sketchbook page featuring an intricate abstract drawing made with black ink. The composition is highly textured, featuring a top border of basket-weave cross-hatching and a central mass of organic, root-like shapes filled with lines and surrounded by stippled dots. Handwritten notes are visible on the page below the drawing, and a computer keyboard is blurred in the background.

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Jun 2, 2025

Every Piece in Its Place — The Craft of Selecting Narrative Events

Less is more in storytelling. How to select and link events for maximum impact.

A top-down photograph showing the artistic process. A hand holding a fine red brush is applying purple watercolor paint to a drawing of a rabbit wearing a blue jacket. The illustration is outlined in black ink on white paper, which is secured to a board with masking tape. In the upper background, a finished, full-color reference print of the same rabbit scene is visible along with drawing pens.

Sam C. Tomasi

Sam C. Tomasi

GIS dev by day, sci-fi writer by night. Drafting worlds as Sam C. Tomasi at The Null Coordinate. Main blog: stranianelli.com

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