symbolic 65: in the beginning...
Nanowrimo starts tomorrow and it is as arbitrary a place to start as any. My schedule is full enough with other things that I could probably put off actually writing the BOOK OF LIES several hundred more months, but schedules, as you know, never really empty. They sort of fill themselves of their own accord. It's like there is some sort of 'nature abhors a vacuum' principle in effect and events and activities slip into these white spaces like kudzu.
I get paralyzed when the kudzu takes over. It's happening in my yard; it is happening on my writing schedule. I'm not really getting much done; well, I am, but not quite the right sort of progress.
So, tomorrow is the first of November. My son is due in less than two months and I can't be frantic now about the impact a new family member will have on my writing time. There will be time enough for that when I'm finger-deep in dirty diapers and Solomon and the cat are both testing my last nerve with caterwauling duets.
I used to have a good pair of headphones with which I could keep the noise at bay, but I broke them again this morning. I go through headphones at a ridiculous rate and I sprang for an expensive set this last time, thinking that more dollars would equal better quality. Nope. Done in by a two cent piece of plastic. Maybe an equally pricey strip of electrician's tape can salvage my investment. I liked those headphones.
In the meantime, here's the premise for the first block of the BOOK OF LIES.
(1) THE FARM
Wherein our hero is drawn into the conflict against his better judgment and discovers that the damsel really is in distress. Friends become enemies and innocence is lost, loved ones die, and the world is revealed to be a strange and dangerous place.
writing
This is a reasonably comprehensive list of my published work, both virtual and physical.
THE MISFIT LIBRARY
I am Nine of Thirteen, one of the members of the Misfit Library, a writing collective which puts out a quarterly journal of our respective work. We are scattered across the globe and determined to change the face of the planet one story at a time. The link above will take you to Misfit Central where you can acquire copies of the journal as well as read exclusive online material.
SYMBOLIC
I wrote a column for OPi8.com's Transmit blogs: journals of the new dark underground. SYMBOLIC tracked the novel I was working on, referencing the process and the research materials which mad up the backbone of the work. In addition, SYMBOLIC busied itself with ruminations and considerations on the nature of language and communication. And a wee bit of mythology. The first 100 entries of SYMBOLIC can be found here on this site as well as at OPi8.com.
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