Writing by alphabete on Thursday, 22 of October , 2009 at 0312
NOTE: This post is sticky so the real action starts in the post directly underneath this one. (I am ensmallening this because for some reason my friends keep asking what happened to my posts.
Most of my paltry selection of fiction is on the sidebar in the Prosebush. Some can be found under Shambles, a hiatus’d serial. Please feel free to play with my Tagnetic Poetry. It’s pretty neat.
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@bakasama Yes, almost as if I literally got happiness in a box, or the very next best thing to it. in reply to bakasama#
Working on an actual original piece of fiction. SCIENCE fiction. If I'm diligent there will be 2 new posts on UnMo this week. TWO. Holy Crap #
@Suw THANK YOU Suw! I can't believe people are actually saying that it's "for our own good." Citizens even, saying that. Of *any* country. in reply to Suw#
@Suw (I realize everyone's a citizen of someplace but I mean "citizen" implies to me some level of civil responsibility) #
Looks like I may spend the upcoming weekend reinstalling WP. Not so bad I guess, just tedious. Found 3 users who never "signed up". HAX #
Must check up on the (mis?)adventures of the @ShinkaiMaru5. It's been a couple weeks. Maxim is like my neglected space boyfriend. #
@tenaciousN It's so true. I display the ficklest dedication to knowing what's up in his life, who his friends are, and if he died in space. in reply to tenaciousN#
*Secretly thinks it might be cool if @ShinkaiMaru5 had some sort of Science Fiction terms hashtag* #
I always wondered what the "hap" is in "hapless". Turns out it's luck, chance, or occasion. This makes sense. Also something can be "haply". #
I'm going to start using "hap" in conversation, as soon as I find the right way/occasion. AS SOON AS I CAN USE IT HAPLY! Hot damn. #
@kevinmarks Yes. I think "hapless" is usually taken to mean "luckless" and is more personal than the neutral others which are kind of… in reply to kevinmarks#
@tenaciousN Excellent! I'm looking forward anxiously to chapters 9 and beyond. You guys did a great job. I'm going to conk out now :D in reply to tenaciousN#
Writing by alphabete on Saturday, 6 of March , 2010 at 2025
I actually posted another thing today! At Raev, where I write less often than I should, I have posted a review of a game called ImmorTall. Read the review, play the game. Play the game some more! And check out game author Pixelante’s site. There’s lots of fun stuff there.
Writing by alphabete on Saturday, 6 of March , 2010 at 0553
I managed to do it. It’s still a little dark outside so I’m counting this as last night. I have made a new post at UnMo!
It’s part 1 of most likely 2. I’ve got a couple things I’m debating between doing with it but the ending is the same so I don’t have to worry about that part. It’s been a long time since I just sat down and wrote some very random unplanned fiction so don’t expect a lot. I’m just happy to have written something. That is all.
Writing by alphabete on Saturday, 6 of March , 2010 at 0223
How well do you know the world you live in?
Tori’s sense of safety is being dismantled brick by brick and every step she takes toward comfort is a step into further disarray. Her life is becoming a nightmare and everywhere she turns, nobody believes her. Hell, she doesn’t even believe her. Within her surreal existence, the only companion who knows, shares, and truly understands what’s happening isn’t telling and won’t go away. Welcome to Tori’s Row.
--What is she hiding beneath those fantastic eyebrows?--
By dint of a fortuitous Twitter association I was invited by one Miss Tenacious Nancy Brauer of Strange Little Band to preview the first eight chapters this new title, co-written with MCM, author of The Vector. I enjoy both these authors so it wasn’t hard to make time for this enterprise. In the past twelve hours I have read these teaser chapters four times. So, what do I think?
I want to know what’s happening! Each time I return to this story I’m searching out hints, clues, the tiniest little indicators of what I’ll see in the forthcoming chapters. MCM and Nancy have got me hooked. The Tori of Chapter One is emphatically not the same Tori of Chapter Eight. Or maybe she is and I don’t want to admit it. Who attacked her and why? What doesn’t she know about herself, and does she really want to know? I want to know.
The dreamlike narrative led me through the chapters feeling as anxious and as lost as the protagonist. I say “dreamlike” because I felt like I couldn’t get a handle on what was happening, as if the very few tangible things in Tori’s consciousness were touchstones while everything else was indistinct and slippery. That is amazingly like the actual feeling I have experienced after a shocking event when everything in the world faded to the background for a while. It’s no mean feat to capture that experience in words.
Complicit in this story-fu are unsettling details that niggle at the back of my mind and make me wonder if I’ve misread them or whether the dark suspicions at the edges of my thoughts are what I think they are. There is intrigue aplenty to be found in the opening chapters of Tori’s Row but I’m not sure it’s what I think it is. Right now I know as much as Tori does about her situation and I’m quite looking forward to knowing what happens next. I expect this story will become, in the immortal words of any grammatically incorrect small child, somehow even more gooder.
Tori’s Row will be available beginning Monday, 8 March with a new chapter appearing each subsequent Monday. I’m sorry that it’s going to take you guys 2 months to learn what I already know, so to tide you over until the debut of Chapter One, here’s the official book blurb:
“Tori McNulty has problems. As she’s putting her life back together, she’s attacked in Boston’s South End. She doesn’t remember much: mostly blood-drenched pavement and the crumpled body of her assailant. The good news is that she’s uninjured and not a murder suspect. The bad news is the obnoxious young man in 18th century dress shadowing her and confusing, violent flashbacks. Tori must figure out what happened that night before her stalker gets to her or she goes completely mad.”
Not enough? Aww, alright, here’s the trailer.
You totally can’t wait now, can you?
Once the story’s been run you’ll be able to pick up a print or ebook copy; I think you’ll want one. If you don’t, watch the trailer again.
Writing by alphabete on Thursday, 4 of March , 2010 at 0237
(With apologies to Jeffrey Osborne)
It would be fantastic if I could say with complete honesty that I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been busy. It would be one fantastic lie. I’ve really been moping around and complaining a lot of being blocked and out of ideas and maybe having “lost my mad skillz” for writing.
That being said, I actually managed to get something accomplished. That something was mostly “finding impetus”. Not in the sense of “why am I doing this?” but more like “what can give me a push on a regular basis and won’t be too difficult?” I have seriously begun to doubt my ability and the only way to tell, I guess, if I really can’t write or if I’m in a funk or if I’m just being a lazy ho is to write some stuff. I keep starting out with that, meaning well, but I’ve found that projects I’ve taken on begin with the best of intentions from me but that I don’t have the strength to write extended narrative right now.
I have so many stories that are hanging out in my notes which began as outlines and degenerated into a mess of random notes. It’s very discouraging. Since I’m continually trying to find my writing sweet spot I’m trying yet another new thing. I finally got my deskal area cleaned off so I can start to write tiny fiction. Very tiny. I know I can write something tiny. Maybe I can do some tiny things and build up to some bigger things. No promises, though, because I’m a fickle creature and liable to mope again for several months at a moment’s notice.
I do have 2 short works of fiction in the works at UnMotivational Posters which will be a first for me, unless you count Pimpmanster. They’re longer than the tiny fiction I’m going for but I started them before I made up my mind to go small. They’re kinda smallish. Esque.
I’m going to write one thing definitely. Anyone who’s a blogger, please check this out. Finding Ada was begun last year by my friend Suw Charman, and is a blogging celebration of women in science and technology. On 24 March there’s going to be a wave of blog posts for Ada Lovelace Day 2010. Who’s Ada Lovelace? Whoa, dude! She was one of the first computer nerds ever! This is important because… Twitter hashtag is #ALD10.
So, to recap:
-Sorry for slacking.
-I’m going to try (again) not to do it again (again) again.
-Big narrative is too mighty for my puny narrative maintenance skills.
-Sometimes I write about men in lingerie.
-Short works in progress, other projects in pipe.
-Will try not to fail.
@am_harte *shakes fist* I still <3 you. Also, did it take you forever to figure out this points system? It looks neat but I feel *so* lost! in reply to am_harte#
@janoda Hmm, buying stuff. Well, that sounds like a good time! @am_harte Maybe it will make sense to me after I buy some stuff XD in reply to janoda#
@1889ca Aha I JUST saw that points tweet from an hour ago. Seems my client is being all siditty. in reply to 1889ca#
@am_harte Wow I sat there for a minute trying to think of a topic and couldn’t. But it’s nice to know that I can think of one! in reply to am_harte#
@MeiLinMiranda wow that is amazing! Well I am looking forward to hearing you on this podcast I saw you mention before! And June Foray? WOW in reply to MeiLinMiranda#
@1889Labs I would like to see a jerky romantic partner mudered. Sure I have specifics but you asked for generic. Jus’ sayin… in reply to 1889Labs#
RT @Inventrix: Awesome quote of the day: “She puts the troll in trollop.” <–LAWL #
@pinkbagels I have never given zombie romance a chance, having been burned out on all other manner of supernatural romance. I will read this in reply to pinkbagels#
@irkdesu Sadly, I think you need a crossover cable. If you can DM me the specs of what you’re working with I can try to help you. in reply to irkdesu#
@irkdesu Mobile web version is a great idea! I was reading that a lot of people with mobile devices etc are reading the web during commute in reply to irkdesu#
I love you Doctor Tyson! I’m not gonna @ that to ya. I’ll just love you in the ether. The lovely, science-filled ether. *weeps for Pluto* #
@BowenTheKotoc I am at home but I got some freelance work so I am working. But I wish I were watching Aliens. On skype with nerds in reply to BowenTheKotoc#
@theladyisugly Or since the prescription is wrong will they somehow enable you to get the right prescription made for not much or free? in reply to theladyisugly#
@rainnwilson I heard sometimes they make a sound which is a cross between a snort and a cackle, and appear to be grimacing in a good way. in reply to rainnwilson#
@am_harte I do okay with short pieces, as long as I’m not trying to do something awesome. But this is a TINY word count eh? in reply to am_harte#
@am_harte I’ve got an idea but I’m no good at paring things down. Might have to request help from the gods via human sacrifice. Idea too big in reply to am_harte#
@AnaRevenant I cozy up to scientists regularly for research and know several who specialize in infectious disease but ever asked re: Sanaria 49 mins ago
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