New engine installed…
In my “real life,” I’m a programmer with a taste for Python and Django. For years, the narrator engine that’s run most of my story site has been a hacked-up set of CGI programs, and most recently it was a collection of eruby scripts.
I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet, and convert all of it [...]
Taking catgirls seriously…
draconispax asked, “What is the Yowlerverse?”
The Yowler series is a collection of short stories set in “the real world” that I’ve been doodling with for a few years now, but haven’t really gotten all that serious about until recently. I’ve finished about 70,000 words or so (don’t worry, I won’t ask you read them all [...]
Knowing when to stop.
So, I’ve been spending this week writing a story, set in 1986, about a gay man in an isolated setting who through circumstances beyond his control is forced out of the closet. It was an exercise in tension, in revealing things slowly, and in trying to get inside the neurosis-inducing world of being gay, [...]
Truer words were never written
I’ve been reading Keith Johnstone’s brilliant little book, Impro: Improvisation and the Theater, which as you can probably guess is about acting. But it’s about much more: it’s about creativity, and teaching, and anthropology, and psychoanalysis, and writing dialogue, all in about 150 pages.
Somewhere in the middle of the book he drops this gem:
Writer’s block [...]
The agony of metadata…
Okay, I’ll confess: the reason I have three Yowler stories that aren’t released is simple: setting up the home page is proving to be a pain in the neck.
You see, I had this brilliant f’ing idea: the home page would look like a Wikipedia page. It would provide a long, detailed explanation of the Yowler [...]