Started class.
Moving on…
I’ve been thinking about the perils of writing in a shared world. The main peril is developing attachments to characters who, inevitably, will be murdered by other writers in that world. They will murder your darlings so you don’t have to. In spite of the joking tone, this is not a good thing. It is hard to develop an arc in a shared world, because not a lot of other writers are likely to recognize and understand your arc vision. Moreover, they have their own and these things often collide under the banner of shared space. Just this evening a writer asked about a property I’d been working on in the ‘long game’ sense and it is clear they are about to do something with it that will impact that long game. At least they are not killing a primary villain or anything. A few years back a group of writers killed off the protagonist of the novel I was writing. That sucked.
The good news is that it led to new ideas for a novella (even a series). So, some good can boil up from such things, though it is as rare as a rattlesnake with two rattles.
Some Thoughts:
- Still going to be a struggle to get adequate football coverage this season. Not having NY access hurts.
- Still excited about the upcoming football season. Play of top teams has shown me that there is opportunity there for my squad to excel.
- A lot of drama on the teams we left behind. The entire organization descended into an awful power struggle. The kids were hurt the most in all of it. Ego ruins youth sports.