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Weekend Update Returns Home
Aug. 23rd, 2014 04:38 pmTwo weeks in London is clearly not enough time to take it all in. SO MANY NEAT THINGS! We went there partly due to it being Worldcon, but also because, y'know, LONDON. A city I've wanted to visit for years, especially with me being an utter music nerd who followed Britpop over Grunge back in the early 90s. [If you go on Twitter and look up the hashtag #joncsbritpopmeme, you'll see pictures tied in with various songs from the UK.] And yes, I was able to make my way over to Abbey Road and see the crosswalk (it's a narrower street than the album cover lets on) as well as cross it and leave a note at the Abbey Road Studios wall. In the next day or so I shall post many of my pictures. Some will end up on the Tumblr, but I'll also be posting the music-related pix at my Walk in Silence blog. It was quite the awesome vacation, and we are already planning on going back at some point.
So you're probably wondering...did I even get any writing done over the last few weeks? Why yes I did! I chose to do some work on a possible Mendaihu Universe book (or trilogy--we'll see about that) by way of writing a few pages' worth of notes. Nothing too chunky just yet, just a lot of questioning, throwing ideas around, and seeing what resonates. It may take a bit more time before I get anything solid, but I at least have some ideas. A lot of these notes had been written during a few convention panels, which I find to be one of the best places to do so. It's partly inspiration, partly keeping my mind in focus.
I also worked just a tiny bit on Two Thousand on the flight over (a few paragraphs, which I'm going to toss because it's not at all what I wanted), but also worked on a few pages' worth of character building for that as well before the trip. This one will be my first non-genre fiction in quite some time--in fact, since the original version back in 1994. I have some neat ideas on this one, so I'm hoping it'll be fun.
Which also brings up the question: What about Walk in Silence? Well, that one seems to have stopped dead for a little bit, and there's a reason for that: it's about 20k of crap so far. Okay, maybe not that bad, but I've come to the conclusion that it's not the direction I want. There's a lot of work there that I could use in a much smaller form, but I need to refocus and restart. I'm going to put that one aside for a little bit and come back to it at a later time. On the plus side, I just finished reading Bob Stanley's Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé, and it's inspired a new direction for WiS in the process.
Which also begs the next point: I really should stop announcing what I'm currently working on, because as soon as I announce plans, they disintegrate! Sheesh.
So you're probably wondering...did I even get any writing done over the last few weeks? Why yes I did! I chose to do some work on a possible Mendaihu Universe book (or trilogy--we'll see about that) by way of writing a few pages' worth of notes. Nothing too chunky just yet, just a lot of questioning, throwing ideas around, and seeing what resonates. It may take a bit more time before I get anything solid, but I at least have some ideas. A lot of these notes had been written during a few convention panels, which I find to be one of the best places to do so. It's partly inspiration, partly keeping my mind in focus.
I also worked just a tiny bit on Two Thousand on the flight over (a few paragraphs, which I'm going to toss because it's not at all what I wanted), but also worked on a few pages' worth of character building for that as well before the trip. This one will be my first non-genre fiction in quite some time--in fact, since the original version back in 1994. I have some neat ideas on this one, so I'm hoping it'll be fun.
Which also brings up the question: What about Walk in Silence? Well, that one seems to have stopped dead for a little bit, and there's a reason for that: it's about 20k of crap so far. Okay, maybe not that bad, but I've come to the conclusion that it's not the direction I want. There's a lot of work there that I could use in a much smaller form, but I need to refocus and restart. I'm going to put that one aside for a little bit and come back to it at a later time. On the plus side, I just finished reading Bob Stanley's Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé, and it's inspired a new direction for WiS in the process.
Which also begs the next point: I really should stop announcing what I'm currently working on, because as soon as I announce plans, they disintegrate! Sheesh.
