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[Writing] Working for the Weekend
Aug. 18th, 2012 10:00 amOkay, I think I may have blanked out on one of those days this past week, as I don't remember it being that quick. I think I might have mentally erased Wednesday or something. Not that I'm complaining, mind you, because work hasn't been all that bad, and I'm making really good headway on the latest run-through of A Division of Souls. It's slow headway, but it's going in the right direction.
Autumn is coming too, and for me, that season means football, college radio, and fourth quarter music releases. The NFL pre-season just started the other week, and the college games will be starting as well. I've been keeping an eye on some of my favorite east coast college radio stations, waiting for them to come back on the air (for those who are seasonal--some are year-round). And of course, I'm always on top of the new music releases, and this coming quarter is chock full of a lot of good stuff coming out that I'm looking forward to. This has been quite a good year for releases, and I'll most likely have a post about that later this weekend.
This sort of ties in with the writing, actually. I've been somewhat lax with the actual writing of Walk in Silence as of late, but not to fear, it hasn't left my head. If anything, I've been letting it brew in my head for the last few months while doing other things, doing some planning and plotting and organizing. So I've decided that, in true school year fashion, I'll be working on WiS on the weekends. This actually makes a bit of sense, considering I've been working a few hours a day on ADoS throughout the week, and the weekend for the most part is wide open for the time being.
There's also the fact that I've been doing a bit of rearranging of the timeline for the book. At first I wanted to write just about the years from 1984 to 1989, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's important to include at least from 1980 to 1983 as well. That would make sense, as I definitely see a trio of mini-eras here: the New Wave/postpunk of 1980-83, the "college music" years of 1984-86, and the slow but insistent entrance into the mainstream of 1987-89. Plus, I also have a handful of people I need or want to contact regarding the histories of the genre. I've definitely been lax on that end.
So! After Emm and I do a bit of walking and shopping today, I'll hole up in Spare Oom, find a college radio station to listen to, and get some writing done.
Autumn is coming too, and for me, that season means football, college radio, and fourth quarter music releases. The NFL pre-season just started the other week, and the college games will be starting as well. I've been keeping an eye on some of my favorite east coast college radio stations, waiting for them to come back on the air (for those who are seasonal--some are year-round). And of course, I'm always on top of the new music releases, and this coming quarter is chock full of a lot of good stuff coming out that I'm looking forward to. This has been quite a good year for releases, and I'll most likely have a post about that later this weekend.
This sort of ties in with the writing, actually. I've been somewhat lax with the actual writing of Walk in Silence as of late, but not to fear, it hasn't left my head. If anything, I've been letting it brew in my head for the last few months while doing other things, doing some planning and plotting and organizing. So I've decided that, in true school year fashion, I'll be working on WiS on the weekends. This actually makes a bit of sense, considering I've been working a few hours a day on ADoS throughout the week, and the weekend for the most part is wide open for the time being.
There's also the fact that I've been doing a bit of rearranging of the timeline for the book. At first I wanted to write just about the years from 1984 to 1989, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's important to include at least from 1980 to 1983 as well. That would make sense, as I definitely see a trio of mini-eras here: the New Wave/postpunk of 1980-83, the "college music" years of 1984-86, and the slow but insistent entrance into the mainstream of 1987-89. Plus, I also have a handful of people I need or want to contact regarding the histories of the genre. I've definitely been lax on that end.
So! After Emm and I do a bit of walking and shopping today, I'll hole up in Spare Oom, find a college radio station to listen to, and get some writing done.
