I’ve been doing these later and later at night largely because after the morning chunk of writing I want to be doing anything else but write for a spell. However, I am transitioning between projects today and that felt like a perfect time to start things off with a blog. Many things to say, but not about a specific subject, so I will collect them all under the banner of…
Some Thoughts:
- I am in a better headspace with the writing and thinking through a spiritual connection to the words and the worlds being created. For a long time I’d lost touch with that, which is a terrible thing because my writing comes from a place of connection and without it I am just a dude trying to imitate the best parts of what I see.
- I see a lot of junk. I watch a great deal of bad tv, including TV I thought was great at the time. I was thinking about that last night after watching another episode of Lisey’s Story. The way Apple TV constructs their menu is interesting. The have a page dedicated to Stephen King which includes the things he watched in the 80s. He watched a lot of really badly done horror. Almost kitch level stuff. Me? I watched Fringe. At least I watched 3 seasons of the stuff. Apparently there are 5 and I’ve been slowly rewatching the entirety of my childhood including Fringe, and it is not as sharp and bright as I remembered. Still, there are gems. JJ Abrams is a specific sort of dude, BTW. Easy to source.
- I’ve been thinking about the blog and how many words hit a page, so at the end of this I will do a wordcount so I know what I came up with in this particular state of mind. I do wonder how long the Bloganovella will be. 12 chapters in and we have not even gotten to the heart of the thing.
- Getting to the heart of this thing, I am starting (resuming) a new (previously shelved) project that I am excited (relieved) about getting (back) into. This is going towards the edge of science fiction–not the far edge but that near edge of what could be possible right now. I feel like sci-fi has two edges, one being the possible and one being the limits of what we can imagine. I remember watching Babylon 5 and thinking about the order of technomancers whose claim to fame was to dream beyond what was possible and from that create the impossible. I think that is our role as futurists…
- Out of time… just under 500 words this time.