I have a lot of ideas, and I'd like to keep them separate so they'll have at least a passing nod to organization, however working on so much all at once tends to... get me less focused.
For that reason I'm repurposing this blog to pretty much everything I'm currently I'm working on. Steel and Wire, The Father's Realm, The Chronicles of Melanchoir, The Android Chronicles, Man of Bel'Tasq, and anything else that comes across this scumbag brain of mine will be all consolidated here. I'll also be posting little vignettes on the writing process, as well as updates to the random merch I've created.
Longer works will, of course, not be posted here, but shorter pieces may crop up from time to time, which may or may not be of the sci-fi/fantasy persuasion.
Ron Carlson said that I need to mature more as a writer, and work on writing things without sci-fi/supernatural elements. Setting aside my belief that I think he has an overall disparaging view on the fantasy genre, I think he has a point: I need to learn how to write a story first, and fantastical elements can easily distract from the storytelling process.
Right now I'm reading the two books (Caitlyn Horrock's "This Is Not Your City", and David Means's "The Spot") he required us to read from the creative writing class I took with him years ago, and reading Thomas C. Foster's "How to Read Literature Like A Professor" as well. My goal is to be a better reader, and better writer. Not to mention that those books had some... haunting qualities in their storytelling, and require a second examination.
I'll also be trying to make weekly updates on Thursdays, and stream of consciousness posts on Saturdays and Sundays (maybe).
Keeping in mind that working full-time means at least 40 hours a week, I need to be working that many hours a week if I really want to make this my profession.
Wish me luck. And see you tomorrow.
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