HULK IS THE DRUNKEST ONE THERE IS

I'm not doing too well on this writing blog thing, am I? Might be because I just haven't written much lately. Non writing life is hectic in a dull way I won't bore you with.

I've been having ideas but not been sure what to do with them. The Jack In The Green sequel keeps stalling, and I think part of that is that I don't see the incentive to write it at the moment. Other things I'm having ideas about include trying to do a different take on the "fun" superhero thing (Basically, I wanted to do a comic about a superhero who essentially beats up bad guys in costumes and has adventures, then thought about how to make that possible with a semi real world setting without it either being GRITTY GRITTY GRITTY or "hey, let's entirely ignore reality". I think I figured out something that works). The problem with having superhero ideas is that I don't have an artist to work with. I work best when I know the artist who will be doing stuff with me, and at the moment I don't have anyone to work with.

So, if you're an artist interested in doing some projects together, let me know, I have some ideas that I think could work brilliantly.

published again

365 Tomorrows did another of my stories here. Which is nice.

That said, I think I'm going to have to broaden who I send stories to. Even with the flash fiction, I think I could and should be sending them to as many places as I can, and I've fallen into a bit of a complacent "365 will like this" mode. I love 365 tomorrows, and I'm glad to have been published by them. I just want to have been published by lots and lots and lots of places.

something new

I've been vaguely dicking around with my twitter account, and I thought I'd try something. Twiction. 140 character stories. Apparently there's already a website for them at http://www.twiction.net but at the moment it's a blog sort of in search of a community.

Oh well, this could be fun.

woot! woot! That's the sound of publication

two nice things for today:

1) 365 tomorrows are going to publish another of my stories. Yay!
2) 365 tomorrow did one of my stories as a podcast! Double yay!

stupid better ideas, or better stupid ideas

Reasons to be irritated: I was most of the way through plotting the follow up to Jack In The Green, needing only to write up the chapter by chapter plot when a better idea whacked me over the back of my head. An idea so much better that I'd have to go through and change pretty much everything. So now it's back to the drawing board.

Reasons to be delighted: it really really is a better idea. A new character, a new voice, possibly even a new love interest (or at least a frisson). The book will be a better place with this in it.

Jacks and Queens

Nearly done with Jack In The Green. Just the last chapter to finish.

Then again, it's been "just the last chapter to finish" for coming up to a week now. Momentum died a little at 50,000 words.

I'm just tired, and this hasn't been a good month for personal reasons.

On the plus side, I wrote fast and I think i wrote well, and I already have the idea for the sequel, The Queen of the May. Not sure if I'll hold off and write that next year, or say the hell with it and do it now.

Time will tell, I suppose.

in between the micro wrimo and the pico wrimo

so yeah, it's NaNoWriMo.

As is now traditional, I'm writing. Aja and I came up with the idea for a supernatural romance novel called Jack In The Green. It's about the Green Man, and I think it will be pretty good. Started it yesterday, hit the 5000 work mark at about midnight last night. Looking good.