First Fiction

A few words on Blinders, Part 1. This is the first half of a very short story I started several months ago. The first half has been re-edited to the point where it is almost unrecognizabe from the first draft. There is one sentence in there that I swear I have rewritten over thirty times. The second half of Part 1, I just sat down and wrote. I only went back through it once. I love how stories evolve in the process of telling them.

Some moments are stronger than others, but this is mainly an exercise in strengthening my own writing in both strength of prose and frequency. With that in mind, please drop me a comment in that entry. Hopefully it will be something constructive like: The dialog between Brok and Mordell was riveting, but Elder Futhark's part was rather stilted and all over the place. Or: There really wasn't much description past the first part. It was like you set the scene, but didn't follow through. I can't wait until the concluding part in two weeks... Ahem!

Ok, ok, I'll be more on-time next session. Things, as always, have been hectic. As an example, I worked two days in a row where I literally left work at three a.m., got three hours of sleep, and came back to work around 6:30 a.m. Two days in a row of that. Either side of this was padded by a ten-hour day and a seventeen-hour day. At least GenCon is coming up. W00t.

Also, I wanted to mention that my 5-year-old daughter made this comment yesterday: "You know what would be cool, Dad? It would be cool if there was a Waffle House that had a jukebox that played all of the songs from Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s on it. Especially Holy Diver and I Ran (So Far Away)." If you know my daughter, you know this is verbatim.

Proudest. Father. Ever.

Current Media:
Movies:
Chain Reaction
Flash Gordon
Minority Report

Books:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling