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Getting back into the groove
So now that injuries, illness, and contests have been taken care of, at least for a little while, I can get back to the writing schedule I was trying to maintain.
Today I managed to pull out the short story “A Question Of Justice,” and resume work. This is the mystery story and represents a departure for me. I have never written a mystery and certainly never one that lacked all the fantastic elements found in SF, Horror, and Fantasy. (Though I suppose an argument could be made that ghost stories are often mysteries, with the reader and protagonist trying to unravel the reason for the haunting. My story “The House Of Bad Blood,” falls into that vein, but I would still maintain I have not written a proper mystery before.)
While I did not get much written today at lunch – when I am working on short subjects – I did get the story moving again. (Sadly I was unable to resist the sirens of the internet.)
Tonight I will get back to work on “Command and Control,” my new Seth Jackson novel. If that goes well tonight then I shall be happy to be back in the saddle.
I’ve also had a setting, more properly a concept, floating around in my head for a new SF novel. It would concern a nebula as seen from Earth, but from a vantage point much closer the nebula vanishes and instead there is a planetary system with inner rocky planet and out gas giants. Of course a ship is sent to study this stranger system up close.
Headache Log
4/1/12
Evening headache, relieved by Treximet and early to bed.
Learning to walk
Normally that would be a metaphor, but in my case it is the precise truth. I am learning to walk again.
Luckily it is not from a serious injury of disease, but rather it seems I never walked properly at all. My right foot turns out and that, apparently, has been the source of my knee issues. So I am trying to retrain my giant gait and all my stances so that my foot point forward and not out.
My knees feels better, but it is a long process learning a new habit.
A very decent day overall
Today started early as I had an appointment to see my sweetie-wife’s chriopractor about my bum knees. Now I will admit to being skeptical as to the usefulness of this visit, but I agreed to hear the man and see what sort of things me might try.
He agreed with a physical therapist that had diagnosed my giant gait as being off. (Apparently I walk with my feet pointed outward.) After just one treatment the pain in my knee was gone. By the end of the evening it was coming back but far from as severe as it had been. I will stick with this and see how it goes for the next two months.
In the evening I ran my D&D game and that game went pretty well.
edited for spelling
A Possible Campaign add and a question.
MADGE GOES TO THE DRUGSTORE
INT. – DRUGSTORE – DAY
MADGE FELDSTEIN, a very old lady with a walker, slowly makes her way to the pharmacist’s counter, with each step she winces in pain. JIMMY, the Pharmacy technician, with a very sympathetic look on his face, watches as she approaches. Finally, MADGE reaches the counter. Continue reading
A surprisingly productive year – so far
I’m a little astounded at how well my writing productivity has turned out this year. We’re not three months into 2012 and I have completed three short stories, two are about to be sent out for possible publication and the third is for a special project with the Mysterious Galaxy Writer’s Group. I have outlined and started a new novel. (A project delayed due to injury and illness at home, but now that both are safely in the past tense I can get back to work on Command & Control.) I’m now writing a mystery short story that has no fantastic elements, a genre I have never attempted, and several more short stores and a new setting for a novel are beginning to come together in my mind.
For a short period, less than 90 days, this has been a real race horse start to my writing year.
Why I own only five seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
I came to Buffy the Vampire Slayer later than many fans. Previously I have experience the boredom that is know as Buffy The Vampire Slayer (feature Film) and with a reaction that bordered on allergic I had zero interest in a television program for a brand new network based on that flawed property. Continue reading
Healthcare Reform, The Supreme Court, and the 2012 elections
So we are two days into the three day arguments before the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality of Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, known far and wide as Obamacare. Continue reading
Sprinting Towards The Goal
The 31st is approaching fast and with it the deadline for entries into this Quarter’s Writers Of The Future Contest. I made the goal this year to enter each and every quarter of the year and stopping only if I was awarded a winning place.
I did not win last quarter, did not even place in honorable mention as I have done hour times before so by my stated intentions I am committed to having an entry by Sunday.
I have one short story, “Lady Jane,” ready, it is written, edited (though not reviewed by my sweetie-wife) and turned out interestingly. It represents a two fold experiment. First I explored the concept of the Captain/Ship romance, so common in science-fiction. Secondly I used this story as an attempt to sketch characters, with distinctly different traits and personalities with as few words as possible.
I think I succeeded in both attempts; however I’d prefer to hold off entering this piece. I am currently trying to complete a cosmic horror SF story entitled “Lies I tell myself” in time for this quarter. This story, the core concept something I have thought about and attempted for over 30 years, is coming along nicely. The question is can I finished it, and polish it before Sunday rolls around?
I think “Lies I tell myself” would be the stronger entry, but only if It is finished and not slapdashed to a “The End” late Sunday afternnon. If that turns out to be the case I will enter “Lady Jane,” a story that I have gotten zero feedback on.