Sunday Evening Update

[jon_chaisson]

Whoops! Almost forgot to update here two weekends in a row! I gave myself a pass last weekend considering we'd spent the entire time in Golden Gate Park for Outside Lands. All told I think we hit about a dozen or so bands and walked about thirteen miles, and then took Monday off to rest and recuperate. It was fun, but it was EXHAUSTING. And, as I'd said last week on my music blog, I think we're calling it done with music festivals for now. We still enjoyed OL, but we felt it's kind of at the point where it's kind of huge now -- not yet Coachella-sized, thankfully, and I don't think our neighborhoods would want that -- and it's just getting too tiring and maybe even irritating.

In other news: I have now made Novel Projects A, B and C public! Per my WtBT post from the other day:

The one I’ve been referring to as Project A is currently entitled Queen Ophelia. It’s a story about a man who, upon his father’s death, finds that his estranged mother is not the human he was told she’d been: she is in fact a part-demon part-fae queen of a world filled with magic and war. He learns that he has not only inherited her magical blood but must help her defeat an unexpected enemy. During his adventures and travels, he learns more about the demon and fae world than he’d ever expected. This one’s theme is all about finding comfort and acceptance in others, and accepting oneself. This one was inspired by a dream I’d had in May, wrote out the entire outline that next morning, and have been writing on the 750 Words site since September. [Surprisingly, this one does not have a playlist. I may need to rectify that.]

Project B, meanwhile, is currently entitled Theadia, and it’s a story that popped into my head during my last days at the Former Day Job. It’s about two young women coders living on a space waystation who become embroiled in a border war, useless upper management and terrible engineering. As I’d said yesterday on my Twitter feed: “the source of conflict isn’t just an antagonistic world threat. It also includes the conflict of active avoidance: the ‘not my job’, the ‘it has to be this way because reasons’ and ‘it’s too expensive to make better’. [The main characters] refuse to fall into that avoidance trap. Winning because they stepped up, not because they’re superpowered or invincible.” It’s super geeky fun and doesn’t take itself entirely seriously, but it’s right up there with IMBW as one of the most enjoyable stories I’ve written. Oh, and this is the one that features the Maine coon cat, Grizelda!

[There is indeed a Project C, and it’s what I’ve been referring to as MU4, aka the fourth book in the Mendaihu Universe. I’m taking my own sweet time with this one because there’s a ton to do. Suffice it to say, the story takes place in Bridgetown seventy years after the trilogy, and focuses on how belief systems change and evolve, for better or for worse, and how different they become the further they get from their creators’ original plans and intentions. And yes, a few Trilogy characters do show up!]

[Huh. Had no idea I could insert different fonts here. Cool!]

Anyway...other than that, things are flowing normally, not much to report. Keeping busy is all.


Hope everyone has a lovely week!