November 18, 2007
not to mention their dark side
Filled a couple pages with brainstorms. This is good, and now I let it sit and stew. By mid-December, I should be ready to outline.
You know, says my brain, this works so well for the short stories, why am I not doing it with a novel? I really don't know. Not a bad idea, though, brain-self. I think we can all agree that the whole experiment with free-form book writing has been a miserable failure since I can't seem to finish anything I start. Time to outline again.
In the "they pay you for this?" department, I have a gaming industry-related article coming out in the next issue of Game Developer. It's called "Textual Healing". No one believes me when I say the editor came up with that title. This just means that the editor gets me.
I really don't know what I think of it. Mostly I suspect that I sound like a moron, but I always feel that way when someone asks me to write about the gaming industry. In reality I'm just an explorer-type player who somehow managed to make a living out of all this. Rabid curiosity and exacting perfectionism have their bennies.
Posted by sdshaver at 12:51 AM
November 10, 2007
a man of few words, most of them argumentative
I have kindly invited Lelia and Wil to once again take up residence in my cerebral cortex. Unfortunately, they are doing more arguing than plot advancement. Lelia also seems to have a pre-existing broken bone (that is, a bone she broke just before the story begins).
Which is interesting, but definitely not a plot. You would think that, as a Bard, she would know this.
For inspiration, I find myself paging through Magdalena and Balthazar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wife. Dry reading, yes, but there's also some truly interesting stuff in there.
At work, we are deadline- and training-bound. So, most of my juice is dedicated to that. Hopefully that will relent at some point. I would really like to just write again.
Posted by sdshaver at 05:37 PM
November 06, 2007
yeah, yeah, yeah
Been a while. My latest writing venture was an article for a magazine (more once I know the actual issue and whether it's accepted), and at some point I need to outline the next Lelia and Wil story, because I'm writing one.
I'm still trying to figure out what I want to write. My three loves are the modern world with the ravens, the mute girl, and the forest of the sun. I just need to pick one.
Here's the problem: Picking one.
I will. I just don't know when.
Posted by sdshaver at 02:34 PM