The Best Record So Far ‘010
February 7th, 2010
Some Old Photos
February 6th, 2010
January Blows
January 31st, 2010
Seriously, get me the fuck out of this month. Nothing but cold, and ice, and flu, and bullshit.
I have definitely fallen behind my schedule on the novel, but I’ve spent most of the weekend so far catching up and it looks like I can claw my way back to where I want to be in a few weeks. I just finished up working on the smaller of the 4 sections, and I’m feeling very good about the way it looks right now. It’s not perfect yet, but it’s getting damn close.
I’m trying my best to have this thing mostly together by St. Patrick’s Day, but I’m not going to be able to slip up very much more with my time management to meet that goal. I want to be able to spend April focused on the first run of the Internet Series, which I’m looking to launch in July right now. Once I launch it, I want to be able to have new fiction every week with the exception of holidays and occasional breaks. So, I may have to push it back a little more depending on what happens, but I really don’t want to have to do that.
As soon as May comes and I’ve hopefully wrapped up the main writing stage of all of this year’s goodies, I am planning on going on a major bender. I’m going to burn this city down to the ground, and then I’m going to find some other cities to ravage. I can’t fucking wait.
But for now, I still have an assload of work to do…
Getting Real With This Bullshit
January 31st, 2010
Obama’s inexperience got the best of him in his first year, but I think his unsuccessful inaugural is going to be an asset in the long run. Now the ridiculous expectations have been shed, and he got a reality check that playing things as safe as possible is not a winning strategy. After the State of The Union, I wanted to start seeing Obi-Wan kick some ass for a change, and he actually did some jedi shit. He’s ultimately going to be judged by what he gets done, but this hour of him responding to Republicans is going to be the turning point of his comeback if he is successful in the end. This is exactly who I thought I was voting for (note: sound sucks for a minute, but it gets fixed):
A Dealer In Style
January 27th, 2010
The Finches
January 19th, 2010
Flashback
January 19th, 2010
I just noticed a few photos on facebook from Ohmpark’s first birthday house party at 1084, so I thought I’d thrown them up here with some others, since this was exactly 2 years ago tonight. It had snowed that day, this was Elevado’s last show, maybe Onset’s first show, and definitely Dj Douschebag’s first show, during which I destroyed my laptop with beer. Supposedly Clint video taped much of this, but who knows if that will ever surface:
Battle Plan
January 18th, 2010
After a week of boozing and blasting, I’m one night’s sleep away from tackling this novel again. I wrote the first draft straight through from beginning to end, but now that I’m going back through it, I’m taking a different approach. There are four primary characters around which the story is centered. For the next month, I will be devoting a week to each different character’s section. In addition to just simply improving the writing and fixing some things, I’m also going to try to give each of the four sections a distinct feel apart from the others. But I want the differences to be subtle with an overall cohesion still firmly intact. I’ll be playing with a bunch of different ideas and techniques to accomplish this.
During this period I’m also going to scrutinize every single element of the novel. I’m trying my best to get outside of the project and look at it objectively. I want to divorce myself from everything I’ve come up with so far and question it all. Is this the right way to do this? Is there a better way? Is this cool enough? I want every single word to have a purpose.
After going through the four sections, I’m going to then map out the entire novel in terms of information bits revealed to make sure I’m dispensing data very precisely. I’m trying to do a lot of things to make this novel dynamic and complex, but above all I want to tell a great story. I want the plot completely airtight, without a single hole. And I have to be able to commit to everything in this novel for the rest of the series, because I’m determined not to write myself into a corner. I’m almost completely inexperienced at this sort of thing, so I’m going to make up for it with brute force and careful planning.
After that I have a few different processes planned that I anticipate will take a few more weeks. I’m hoping to have this thing about 98% done around the second week of March. Then I’m going to find someone to edit it for grammar and bleed it out with red ink while I begin working on the internet series. The goal is to have a very sharp manuscript to shop around by the middle of April, and the first part of the Internet series ready to go by the time summer rolls around.