So, after a busy week and long weekend, I’ve stalled on writing. I think tonight’s a wash, too. Watching Heroes after a day of lazing around, playing WoW. Hopefully I’ll get back into it this week. I think that’s one of the big challenges: Balancing work, play, laziness, procrastination, and [...]
Another thought for the episodic fiction ponderings pile: Old-school Doctor Who from the BBC seemed to have a good formula. Unlike the more recent regeneration, the original series told stories stretched over a handful of hour-long episodes, usually four to six in number. And, although plot details from previous tales might come [...]
So, I’ve got story ideas percolating in my head, and I’ve posted some of them. I’m currently working on one of them out in the open as a rough draft serial, and I’m also taking occasional pokes at this other one. Looking my batch of podcast subscriptions, I could see myself trying to [...]
Hot on the heels of Part I, here’s Part II of Alpha vs Delta, my exercise in 7th Son / Infection fanfic. For all parts of this story, check the Alpha vs Delta category. Thus far, it still feels like 3 more parts of 5 left as far as my notes run and how the pacing and [...]
Update: For all parts of this story, check the Alpha vs Delta category. Remember the story pitches I posted? I got some comments from a pair of my favorite podcast authors. So, I started writing the 7th Son / Infection fanfic. I’ve got the plot outlined to pretty decent detail in notes, [...]
Another thing that’s crossed my mind to do here is post my story ideas. Part of me recoils from this because, of course, Every Story Idea is Precious and throwing them out there will either spoil the stories or cause something else equally bad to happen to them. On the other hand, I’d [...]
I’ve posted a couple bits of my incomplete draft for The Juggler so far, and I think I’m probably about 1/2 way through. I’m wondering if that’s what I should be doing. The story’s not finished, not edited, and I don’t quite know how it’s going to end yet. But, I [...]
More work on The Juggler, this time even less complete than the last entry. But, hopefully there’ll be more here soon. Like the prof had promised, we put on a lot of shows over the next few weeks. It was like we were a little circus, performing at lunches and dinners for old big [...]
So, here’s one of those half-dozen or so ideas I’ve got for a story. It’s not done, but I have managed to get some writing done on it. It popped into my head with the first line… These days, everybody juggles like me. And when I say like me, I mean just like [...]
I’m trying to make myself write something fictional, but nothing’s coming. I’ve got somewhat detailed plot and character notes on at least five different stories, but I can’t start a single one. I’ve even been thinking maybe I should do some writing exercises here, maybe even work on some very short flash fiction [...]