John Bodin and I are, once again, committing collaboration on another piece inspired by the Indy 500. These are great fun to write. First, I think John’s a great idea guy, and so that’s just fun to be around. Second, writing about the 500 reminds me of my grandfather, who made his living running a […]
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A Fresh Set of Problems
Since I’m now essentially working on two episodes at once, I’ve decided to compartmentalize my near-term the work into three buckets. Prior to this morning, I had bucket 1) Fix up short story to make it, you know, like, a full short story (with a point of being all by itself), and I had bucket […]
Read More ...Splitting Stories and a Note From Philip K. Dick
I’ve spent the last couple mornings working to restructure episodes 6 and 7 into a short story and a short novella (perhaps even dropping it into novelette territory–though we will see). It was a bit difficult to concentrate to concentrate this morning, though. First, I woke up considerably later this morning than normal (the cat […]
Read More ...Confidence and Assurance
I grabbed this list of Joss Whedon’s writing tips from another place–someone’s twitter or Facebook page–a day or three ago, and thought it was great (of course). Then I followed the link at its bottom to these tips from Neil Gaiman, which are equally full of tremendous, but even more so. The reason I say […]
Read More ...Wherein I Make Stuff Up. Kinda. Maybe.
The lull between basketball games is a good thing, I think. # Turning to episode six has been an interesting adventure. The overall story arc of the world is currently lying in several threads, the “main” arc is really three chords twining together, but the third one of these is really a bit of a […]
Read More ...Writing Short Stories — Novel Prep, or Not?
It was a big basketball weekend, of course. My Cardinals of Louisville are riding high, and seem to be a reasonable favorite to win it all. Lots of good teams out there, though, far too much competition left to get particularly cocky. # Myke Cole, a writing acquaintance of mine who I recently met in […]
Read More ...A Pair of 90 Minute Blasts
Excellent morning at the keyboard, though it started too late. I was a slacker and didn’t rise until just past 8:00 AM today, which is surprising since usually the cat will wake me well before then. Stranger and stranger, this feline thing we live with. Anyway, I’ve made it through Lords of Existence. Kind of. […]
Read More ...A Weekend Proposal
Holy cripes there’s a lot to do this weekend. If the world were just we would get two day work weeks and five day weekends. But the world, alas, is not just. That’s what I retain from my college course in logic, anyway. [grin] It’s been a good morning, though. I managed to zip through […]
Read More ...Ep. 5 – Heading Toward the Finish Line
Very good morning at the keyboard. I’m now two-thirds through what I expect to be the last run through Lords of Existence, and the work is flowing really well. I’m getting that feeling where everything makes sense (which shouldn’t be too remarkable, I suppose, since a few days back when I realized what the story […]
Read More ...Busy Much?
As projected, I was side-tracked with a short story rewrite that took up a morning and a half of my time. This was “The Guardians a Chicago,” a story I expect to be in an anthology soonish. And it wasn’t a rewrite so much as it was a very detailed pass at the language of […]
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