Archive for the 'Writing' Category
The Happenings
If big things are going to happen, they are inevitably going to happen at the same time. Not sure if that’s Murphy’s Law or Reverse Chaos Theory or some bunk I read on the back of a Starbucks cup, but it’s true.
To wit, in the last week I have:
- Taken on two new clients
- [...]
Running to catch up
Bah!
It’s been a crazy week around here. Very busy work wise, and there has been some interesting Life Events (when you capitalize it, the events sound bigger. Like asteroids or something.) All good things, details to come.
In consumer news, I ended up buying an iphone so I could be more mobile, while still [...]
Progress
Finished a somewhat more together draft of my alien invasion story, now titled “The Way Forward.” Tomorrow I’m sending it off to a fellow write-a-thoner for critique. Another excerpt:
“Where are the onions?” She asked.
Walter had gone to the store with the other locals who had chosen to avoid the suffocating death of the [...]
Storyline
Ho-hum.
I’ve finished the first draft of my alien invasion story, though to be honest, it’s not really ‘finished’ so much as I arrived at an interesting ending that really doesn’t have anything to do with the beginning. This is nothing new for me – I end up reverse engineering a lot of my fiction. I’ll [...]
Lies!
My dinner-party story has been put on the back burner. I still plan on writing it, it’s just that it was getting very weird: Rob Roy showed up. Then Bono. And I don’t want to subject anyone to anything resembling the middle act of Across the Universe.
But all is not lost: I’m now over [...]