Dear Muse….
Dear Muse:
Yes, I understand that the change we made to chapter 2 of A Pleasing Shape complety changes the tenor of the story and that heavy lifting is required. On the other hand, that is no reason to make the current ending so boring. Even if it’s not the ending we’re going to [...]
So, Muse walks onto the trading floor and has an analogy…
I had this idea: A traditional Dyson sphere, what most of us singularity-as-a-setting writers now call matrioshka spheres (poor Dyson, to be remembered for the bad SFnal version), where lots and lots of little solar-powered polises live in huge cloud-like orbits around the sun. Gazillions of human analogues live in these things and 99.99% [...]
Not a great week, but not a bad week
I finally decided to get off my ass and start writing again. I’m not happy when I’m not writing, but often I lack the kind of input that I need to push me toward writing. Television and movies doesn’t do it: only reading really inspires me to write a lot. Fortunately, I had two perfect [...]
Muse and I, Sittin’ In A Tree
Muse and I have been on a tear the past two weeks. First, she delivered on Moi Neuroses and I have a solid rough draft, and she’s been pushing forward on Wishing Well: Homecoming, a kind-of wrap-up where Wish assembles all the thoughts she had during her trip out to llerkin and comes to [...]
Writing without interruption
I was struggling this past weekend to write. It shouldn’t be hard for me to write; after all, I’ve been doing it all my life. Writing at home is hard; I’m reminded of Neal Stephenson’s comment in an interview about his being a “ruthlessly bad correspondent,” because if he answered emails he’d [...]
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