Michael Stephen Fuchs

Novelist/screenwriter. Author of #1 bestselling ARISEN series, original screenplay Black Squadron (Black Hawk Down meets Training Day), Macmillan/Podium author.

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Damn Dude!!!!!”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Arisen masterpiece – MSF knocked it out of the park”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Did it again absolutely action packed”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Killed it! she is a bad ass”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Fast paced action masterfully written”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Action packed balls to the wall”

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

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[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

2️⃣ Weeks to 🔩-Hitting Badassery
[more details, pipe-hitting goodness, AND big new news tease, in the latest Survivors bulletin, link 👇🏼]

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

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[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

BLACKGOLD (@BLACKGOLDhg) is – finally! weird because they're based here – coming to Underworld (a tiny club venue) in Camden Town. <squeeeee!!!!!!!!> See the last ARISEN writing playlist? “Wake Up” & “Crazy World” basically *wrote* Ops v3&4. CHECK OUT THIS BAND. 🎭🔥🤘🏼

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

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[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

ARISEN : Operators, Volume II
Pipe Hitters – Audible Edition,
Performed by the Complete & Total Badass Chad Michael Collins
Is Up for Pre-Order NOW!! 🎙️💥👊🏼

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

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[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

③ (Yeah, while also fulfilling all my logistical, tactical, thematic, team-gelling, loss-and-sacrifice, and character-journey requirements for that mission and sequence.) Still, this proved a hell of a lot Ⓐ less painful, Ⓑ more productive... Ⓒ even fun? Yeah, okay. Fun.

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

① BATTLING-MY-WAY-BACK TUESDAY (after Getting-My-Ass-Absolutely-Handed-To-Me Monday 🫴🏼🍑): instead of breaking my brain any further trying to wrap it around the total narrative shape of this story cycle (including Yael's passage through additional archetypal character arcs…

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

② …such as Leader, Queen, Mentor – yeah, goddammit, there are more! gah)… instead I just spent my day figuring out how to get Echo out alive from the frozen and horrifically overrun Svalbard Global Seed Vault in a fast-descending ice storm…

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

Well, having finished reviewing every note, beat, and outline for next story cycle, I'm prepared to report what I always do: this shit is straight-up impossible. Literally no one could do it. Tried anyway; fought the good fight; got my ass handed to me. Back at it tomorrow. 🥺

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

(However, I've done this enough times to know the 'nightmare stage' – the cognitively crushing work of trying to weave all these vaguely interconnected and metastatic badass ideas into something, *anything*, that coheres into a unified and logical story arc – is coming fast. 😬)

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

Currently in the early 'dream stage' of the story-design cycle: the ideas! they're awesome and cool and freaking badass! and they just flow! and swirl, and interconnect, and metastasize, and all seem to connect and grow together! 😃

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

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[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

There’s no way to adequately thank Bob Bray for what he’s done with ARISEN these last 13 years; but no better way to send him off than to revisit and relish his CROWNING MOMENT OF BADASS. Doff your hat, crack a cold one, and join me. 🫡 ⚔️ 🥹
[This is mere sample; full version👇🏼]