{"id":2781,"date":"2017-12-09T12:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T18:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:01:22","slug":"alums-novel-is-a-sci-fi-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/alums-novel-is-a-sci-fi-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum&#8217;s novel is a sci-fi journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>By Munira Alimire<br>\n<\/b>Arts and Entertainment Editor<br>\nMunira.Alimire1651@mb.rctc.edu<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11752\" style=\"width: 174px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11752\" class=\"wp-image-11752 \" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Caleb-Anthony-871x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Caleb Anthony\" width=\"164\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Caleb-Anthony-871x1280.jpg 871w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Caleb-Anthony-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Caleb-Anthony-768x1129.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Caleb-Anthony.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Anthony<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Caleb Anthony, an RCTC alumnus and former Echo sports editor, has accomplished one of his greatest dreams: publishing his book <i>Zetar<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"> The Pine Island native was a media\/mass communications major and transferred to the University of Northwestern, Saint Paul after spending two and half years at RCTC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">He first wrote the book in 2014, but in the past year, he has had time to rewrite and revise it. The idea came from the role-player games he enjoyed with his friends, where he would get to create characters and determine their fates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c<i>Zetar<\/i> is a sprawling ensemble of interesting main characters, focusing around partners with amnesia who are searching for one another, and as a consequence, affect the world around them. I like to think of it as sci-fi journey along the lines of Star Wars meets Mass Effect,\u201d Anthony said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Anthony writes this story \u2013 rather, all stories \u2013 with the hope of expressing himself and leaving people with an interesting idea to chew on. By exploring the world around him with writing, he addresses his internal need and hopes to make an impact on someone\u2019s life.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11753\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11753\" class=\"wp-image-11753 \" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nu-Zetar-Cover-960x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Zetar\" width=\"334\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nu-Zetar-Cover-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nu-Zetar-Cover-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nu-Zetar-Cover-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nu-Zetar-Cover-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Nu-Zetar-Cover.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zetar Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">That hope reflects the way he goes about writing. While admitting it would be wonderful to live solely off his writing and receive the commercial benefits of well-known authors, he continues to write for the sake of writing along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYou can\u2019t give up in this industry,\u201d Anthony explained. \u201cYou have to be committed to your dream of writing and write a little every day. You shouldn\u2019t stop or be discouraged, even if your first draft sucks \u2013 you need to pick up and start again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Anthony\u2019s advice to aspiring writers is: \u201cWrite. Don\u2019t be afraid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">You can buy Zetar online at Amazon or at zetarthebook.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCTC alum uses his passion for writing to express himself and make an impact on the lives of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}