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So where have I been the last few weeks? Busy! Been posting some music-related stuff over at Walk in Silence, doing some serious revision of my trilogy, and whatnot. I've been sadly lax with the picture posting at my Tumblr and the poetry at the Dreamwidth site, but I promise that will pick up. Been an insane couple of weeks there.

Anyhoo...I'm currently writing this at work in Concord (CA, not MA) while I await my next meeting. It's at least thirty degrees warmer than at home. It's really weird to walk outside and feel heat rather than a consistent breeze and Karl the Fog making his ominous way into the Golden Gate. It's also reminding me that I don't function nearly as well in high temperature...I just get sluggish and cranky. Guess this means I'm a full-blooded Bay Area guy now. ;)

In other news, I've been doing some more thinking about my writing...my main focus is still the trilogy revision and submission [note: Book 1 has been sent to one potential agent at this time, and I'm currently four chapters in on the revision of The Persistence of Memories], but I'm also thinking about what my next NEW project is going to be. Another book in the Eden Cycle universe? Finally getting started on Can't Find My Way Home? This of course is aside from the off-and-on work I've been doing on Walk in Silence, which is currently in "reading more books about the subject" mode. The new EC book is tempting, though I think I really need to do some more planning/plotting/idea creation before I get too far there.

Another thought I had was about what I'd like to do with that universe as a whole. I've got some nifty ideas that extend not just with book form, but maybe some online, behind-the-scenes, extraneous stuff that would be fun to work on. Maybe some interactive stuff, I don't know. I have Ideas on this, some of which are a bit out of the scope of my creative expertise at this time and need reining in. More on that in a future post.

Other than that...been keeping myself busy and moving forward as much as I can, so I'm happy about that. :)
jon_chaisson: (Mooch writing)
I've some internetty plans in store within the next few weeks that I think will be fun and kinda neat:

1. Since I've been getting a small but very positive response to my Blogging the Beatles posts (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] kateelliott for the RTs!), I've decided that I'm going to speed up the series to twice a week. I'm thinking midweek, maybe Wednesdays or Thursdays. Originally I've been working on them on Sunday afternoons and posting them that evening, but I've decided that it would make more sense to work on them over the course of a few days, which will free up time for other things.

2. Somewhat related--after doing many of the BtB and settling into a familiar pattern of light research and personal past-and-present experience of the music, I came to the conclusion that this pattern would also fit quite nicely in how I'd like to present the music portion of Walk in Silence (the book project). So, that being said, in the next few weeks I will be presenting "official" WiS entries, focusing on albums, singles and/or single songs from the 'college rock' era. No set days for posting these as of yet, but they'll probably be on the off-days, in between the BtB posts.

3. I will be reviving the Dreamwidth poetry account as well. I've been inspired to revive writing poetry in my trusty composition notebooks, especially given that April has been National Poetry Month. I had a lot of fun posting them a few days a week a few years back, and I'd like to start doing that again. These will probably be on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

4. Time to start posting pictures on the Tumblr again. Scheduled for Wednesdays.

And through all of this, I'll be spending the evenings revising the Eden Cycle books. All of this planning is going to be insane, but damn it, I'm in full steam ahead mode now, and I don't want to lose it again.


So yes...Q2 in JoncWorld is starting to take shape in a good way. I will of course be keeping tabs here and elsewhere, just to let y'all know what's new on the sites. See you online soon!

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