xaosseedThe book is more done now. It has an ending and better pacing and more focus. Enough of all the above? Unknown, to be confirmed through external channels. Though now I’ve found my endings I think I can more happily tweak the middle to point it in the right direction and lop off the bits that are just distractions.
Onwards.
uberWhere else do you see someone threaten Warren Ellis, espeially when the one issuing the threat is Wil Wheaton?
xaosseedTalking to colleague here – its the big ‘participation jamboree’ event thing which has nuked any notion of writing for near four days – I got roped into Chess which has just served to remind me why the chess I liked was coffee house chess. While discussing the inner machinations of the Monolith over some fine whisky given to my by said Monolith for a particularly good years work we came to the point that there appear to be about four different entities awarding various bonuses and suchlike – and we don’t know which one gives which, so what a given thing means from the point of view of who wants us to do more of what. As a motivating incentive, this is not good.
“I know someones happy with what I’ve been doing – but not who – and thus not what it is that is pleasing nor what I should be doing more of.”
xaosseedNo, not the hand of god thing – one of our number has been maintaining an alternate blog! Not on a topic or anything justifiable like that but post-worthy randomness!
I am shocked, shocked. The stalinist show trial will follow.
xaosseedAs you may have guessed from my last utterly pointless waste of bytes, the writing, it does not go well. I think its something like rule 29 or such – ‘if you’re blogging, you’re not writing’. Especially if its idiotic blogging that involves both google earth and wikipedia (forging a time sink whole orders of magnitude more procrastinaty). Read the rest of this entry »