Okay, I just hit 99 readers...
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elfsSo I'm just trying to figure out... who are all those people? Not that I mind, mind you. I have six people I count as good friends, all but one on LiveJournal, and all but one of the LiveJournalers has me listed as a friend of theirs, so... that leaves some 93 people out there who can't really be all that interested in the banal details of my life. Cooking, coding, writing-- gosh, it's such an ordinary existence.
Finally finished Appleseed, by John Clute. I felt that he ran out of ideas; the ending was way too 1970's for my taste. There are some great moments scattered throughout the book, moments that give one a viceral taste for how whole books ought to be written, and the whole told a story, but it was so... deus ex machina in the end. Still, there are a few good ideas in it. I plan on reading Everyone in Silico next, and maybe Jennifer Government after that.
I edited today. I wrote a sonnet yesterday that, sadly, will never see the light of the sun. It is too vicious and mean, too obvious. But today I managed to put in a few good moments, fixed one scene that was going nowhere so that it is now going somewhere. I have a character that I'm sure a few people are going to absolutely hate because she is so completely and utterly politically incorrect. She does something so heinous and horrible that few modern SF writers would ever give a character this particular habit: she smokes.
["Is she on fire?" Linia asked, and then giggled.]
Hopefully, on the way home I'll break file on one of two ideas I've got floating in the back of my head: either the Madships series or the Bridges of Stone story. Madships is a counterpoint to Dreamteam Calamaties. In the latter, a small group of biologicals do something the AIs agree with but which upsets the majority of biologicals; in Madships, the AIs go unexpectedly on a war footing over a first-contact issue that the biologicals don't quite understand and aren't quite ready to fight over.
Or I'll just tinker with another Aimee novel. I've got five of them plotted out.
Finally finished Appleseed, by John Clute. I felt that he ran out of ideas; the ending was way too 1970's for my taste. There are some great moments scattered throughout the book, moments that give one a viceral taste for how whole books ought to be written, and the whole told a story, but it was so... deus ex machina in the end. Still, there are a few good ideas in it. I plan on reading Everyone in Silico next, and maybe Jennifer Government after that.
I edited today. I wrote a sonnet yesterday that, sadly, will never see the light of the sun. It is too vicious and mean, too obvious. But today I managed to put in a few good moments, fixed one scene that was going nowhere so that it is now going somewhere. I have a character that I'm sure a few people are going to absolutely hate because she is so completely and utterly politically incorrect. She does something so heinous and horrible that few modern SF writers would ever give a character this particular habit: she smokes.
["Is she on fire?" Linia asked, and then giggled.]
Hopefully, on the way home I'll break file on one of two ideas I've got floating in the back of my head: either the Madships series or the Bridges of Stone story. Madships is a counterpoint to Dreamteam Calamaties. In the latter, a small group of biologicals do something the AIs agree with but which upsets the majority of biologicals; in Madships, the AIs go unexpectedly on a war footing over a first-contact issue that the biologicals don't quite understand and aren't quite ready to fight over.
Or I'll just tinker with another Aimee novel. I've got five of them plotted out.
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Re: In case you're still reading these comments . . .
Date: 2003-03-28 03:21 pm (UTC)I'm trying to figure out how to say, "Your comment made me happy" without sounding like a sycophant. "I'm flattered" reads fake. I've been journaling on-line in one flavor or another since 1988-- LJ is just the most refined interface for doing so, with the best tracking mechanism I've come across yet for following the people I like to read.
If you look at your own user info (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=unexaminethis&mode=full) entry, you'll see a listing of all of the people who have listed you as a "friend". There's an almost eternal debate about the freighted meaning of that word over on the ljusers community. It really means "people who I find interesting and want to read on a daily basis."
And you are not the oldest LJ'r out there. The kids just make us feel like it.