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Sep. 4th, 2022 12:00 pm Has it been almost a month already? I guess it has! I've been extremely lazy with all the blogs as of late. [Except for Welcome to Bridgetown, in which I'd posted the entirety of my novel Diwa & Kaffi. If you're interested in giving it a read, begin here.]
So what's been going on? I've been busy balancing Day Job stuff with Writing Project stuff and focusing all my energies on those two things. Focusing on my retail job, you say? Sure, why not? I'm enjoying it much more here than in all the years I'd been at the bank, that's for sure. Besides, it lets my bosses know that I'm not just being lazy about it, that I have something to offer, and that I'm genuinely interested in how things run.
As for the writing, I'm still slogging away through the rewrite of Theadia. There are still a lot of cracks in the foundation that need patching, still a lot of [FIX LATER]s to finally fix. It still feels like a chaotic mess, but that's a bit by design, really, considering part of the story is about our heroes trying to work through manufactured chaos. Heh.
Am I working on anything new as of late? Not really, but I'm not too worried about it. There was this fun idea that popped into my head a week or so ago, tied in with a Twitter meme regarding great 90s lyrics that would be perfect opening lines to novels and stories. I thought: why not make a list of these, and as a 750Words exercise, write some microfiction based on that idea? Like a story of a man dealing with loss that starts with "I am still dreaming of your ghost." I haven't made too much of a dent with it but I do have a short list that could grow. I think I might try it out once we get back from our vacation.
And yes! We are FINALLY going on a vacation outside of California after two years! We'll be flying east to MA next week to visit family and friends. It'll be kind of weird doing this when the Covid is still floating around, but we're obsessively prepared for that, masks and tests and all. It'll be interesting to see what's changed, what hasn't, and how much I've detached from that part of my life...
Anyhoo...back to PC cleaning and getting ready for my evening shift at the Day Job. Not entirely happy that I'm working until 10.30 tonight, but at least I'm getting paid for it, yeah?
So what's been going on? I've been busy balancing Day Job stuff with Writing Project stuff and focusing all my energies on those two things. Focusing on my retail job, you say? Sure, why not? I'm enjoying it much more here than in all the years I'd been at the bank, that's for sure. Besides, it lets my bosses know that I'm not just being lazy about it, that I have something to offer, and that I'm genuinely interested in how things run.
As for the writing, I'm still slogging away through the rewrite of Theadia. There are still a lot of cracks in the foundation that need patching, still a lot of [FIX LATER]s to finally fix. It still feels like a chaotic mess, but that's a bit by design, really, considering part of the story is about our heroes trying to work through manufactured chaos. Heh.
Am I working on anything new as of late? Not really, but I'm not too worried about it. There was this fun idea that popped into my head a week or so ago, tied in with a Twitter meme regarding great 90s lyrics that would be perfect opening lines to novels and stories. I thought: why not make a list of these, and as a 750Words exercise, write some microfiction based on that idea? Like a story of a man dealing with loss that starts with "I am still dreaming of your ghost." I haven't made too much of a dent with it but I do have a short list that could grow. I think I might try it out once we get back from our vacation.
And yes! We are FINALLY going on a vacation outside of California after two years! We'll be flying east to MA next week to visit family and friends. It'll be kind of weird doing this when the Covid is still floating around, but we're obsessively prepared for that, masks and tests and all. It'll be interesting to see what's changed, what hasn't, and how much I've detached from that part of my life...
Anyhoo...back to PC cleaning and getting ready for my evening shift at the Day Job. Not entirely happy that I'm working until 10.30 tonight, but at least I'm getting paid for it, yeah?
