Okay, I just hit 99 readers...

[elfs]

So 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.

Comments

[kyriani.livejournal.com]

Well... Since I know you and Omaha in RL and you are friends... ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
I'm also intrigued by the fact that having a sci-fi character that smokes makes them politically incorrect... I can think of a few guy characters in sci-fi that smoke, but now that you mention it, I can't think of one female character who does in anything I have read (and am remembering at this particular moment). My character Night smokes (though my comic is fantasy not sci-fi) though later on in the story (from circumstances that make sense in the story heh). Arg I really have to finish a few pages of my latest side-story, Ive been too depressed/hurting to draw the last week or so. =/
*HUGS* Anyway, you should at least feel flattered that so many people are interested in your writing within LJ circles alone. ^_^

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Well, in modern SF it's always the villain who smokes: consider "cigarette smoking man" from the X-Files as the prime example. Women who smoke are always evil: Sharon Stone's character in Total Recall smoked-- this was the giveaway that she was, in fact, an evil plant and not the hero's wife.

And yeah, in real life, you're high on my list of good people, too.