People. This is an announcement. If you have a cell phone, YOU MUST HAVE IT WITH YOU AND TURNED ON. That is what it’s there for. If you don’t have it on you, or it’s off, then its just a plastic brick in your pocket. Its useless. And you’re useless. For god’s sake, this is what you bought a cell phone for – so people could contact you whenever they need to. You didn’t buy it so you could call people whenever you wanted, you bought it so people can contact you when they need to. Do you think people see a cell phone and think “gee, now I can…
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Beginning of the Year Update
Well, let’s give a little update on where we’re at, here at the start of the new year. I’m on the home stretch on revising Black Hole Son – about 40-30 pages to go. I’m in the exciting climax, which is fun to write. I was making fair progress on eliminating words, until I felt like Character B’s stand-off scene needed something more to it. Otherwise it was over too quick, and the impact would be lost. It’s now ambiguous whether I’m going to get below 140,000 words. C’est la vie. After I’m done, I plan to alternate days between working on my short stories and walking. The holidays were…
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My Current Situation
I feel like I’m in a writing dead zone now. I’ve finished Blood 2: The Unforgiven (and celebrated with the loneliest pizza ever), I took a break, and now I’m trying to write like the writer’s do. And nothing seems to be working out. It’s not a dry spell, and I don’t think it’s writer’s block. Maybe it’s the motivation, or the lack of focus. It was nice when I had that guide for Blood 2, and when I got stuck, I just consulted the guide to see what was supposed to happen next. And I padded the guide so I’d have a lot of text and could call it…