Sometimes It's Hard

...and sometimes it's easy.

Just gotta keep on keeping on, writing through the night, getting four hours of dream-filled sleep, gotta keep on recording my reading each piece to check the dialogue and flow, gotta keep on pretending I don't care about rejection. (Ok, well, that last part is easy. I've been rejected by Experts, what's a bunch of editors-who just want to publish what's good-gwan' do to me?)

Gotta keep listening, gotta keep talkin', gotta keep reading, gotta keep walkin'. Until at the beginning of the line, I enter the train to anachronistic success. Sir, and madame, I do not intend to be the everyday ordinary type of failure, I intend to be the kind of failure best summed up as "a success before his time". And then I'll make the damn time my own, because the only times I subscribe to are multiplication.

Anyways, twenty days Up, twenty days Down. How many days has it been?

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In case you were wondering, the color scheme of this blog is based on the color scheme I've set up in Q10, that being the full-screen text-editor I most prefer when I'm in full-screen text editor mode. I have so many different ways of extracting words out of my racing mind. In fact, just today I've bought a paper spike, just like the newsmen of old, so that I can slam finished sheets of double-side paper on it and feel good about myself. So long as I finish at least eight sheets a day.

Man, I need a drink.

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500 words? Yes
Book "Lived Too Long To Die" - chapter eleven
Short Story "Kritarchy" - in progress (~1/2)
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Reading - "Hornblower and the Atropos" (C.S.Forrester)

Living In The Future

Sure, sure, everybody likes reading about a dystopia, but would you really want to live there? Sometimes I like to consider futures I wouldn't mind actually having to live in.

It seems pretty easy to be a pessimist. To be fair, pessimists are a lot more useful in the short term, even if they're not more accurate in the long term.

On the other hand, sometimes it's hard to be an optimist. Where's the Conflict in optimist future?

I'm making it a personal challenge to construct plots where very few people have guns and where fighting has dire consequences. These future losers are going to earn their crapsack world the hard way, by having bad relationships. There's a lot of Conflict involved in not being allowed conflict.

All that aside, so far we seem to have muddled through. Whether that's because we humans try to prove both pessimists and optimists wrong at the same time is up to you.

I leave you with this personal opinion: "Brave New World" is not actually a dystopia.

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I benefit greatly from a mental illness that from time to time knocks me flat on my back, wallowing in self-loathing and introspection. That might sound bad, but otherwise I would never take a break from the rest of the time, the pounding stampede of productivity and wandering babble that drives everybody around me crazy. Anyways, so far having a live-in therapist with a degree in sexiness has been the best management strategy.

So stop smoking in the house and start being therapeutic.

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500 words? Yes
Book "Lived Too Long To Die" - chapter 11
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Reading - "Artemis Fowl" (Eoin Colfer)

No, Don't Get Up

In which it turns out that today was not one of those days I was meant to move around or do anything. So I lay in my bed and accomplished slightly more than one-eighth of what I intended.

This post will reflect that insofar as the text is also lying horizontal.

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Sometimes looking for ideas is like paleontology. In that it's Awesome?!?

Sorry, this picture derailed me. What is this, some sort of dinosaur grave-robber? I envision him going to Dino Med and needing cadavers. He recovers an especially attractive one, considers necrophilia, but is interrupted by a meteorite. Title: "A Moral Served Cold"

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250 words? Yes
Book "Lived Too Long To Die" - chapter 11
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Reading - "The Flying Sorcerers" (David Gerrold & Larry Niven)