It has been exactly two weeks since I wrote anything in my stories collection. I can make some excuses: for one thing, I was visiting my family for a week last week and had no time to write at all, and this weeks has been crammed full of recovery. When I got back, Omaha had her radio show (which was cancelled, but I had scheduled my evening around that), work has been overwhelming (I've been eating at my desk or snipping out for real short things), I had a lecture to give on Wednesday so Yamaarashi-chan came over Tuesday, both of which hammered my schedule, Omaha had her panic attack Wednesday so we both awoke late Thursday and I drove, and then today... I finally pulled away from the office on time so that I could stop at my favorite cafe', have a drink of cold coffee, and write something.
And I can't think of what to write. Oh, there's plenty to write. I have over 300 files in my "pending" or "working" directories, with 730,000 words or so in them. It's just that when I look at them, I don't feel all that inspired.
Maybe it's stress. Work has been unbearable recently; long hours, relentless pressure. The product is really good, but by all the Gods it must be perfect before it goes out the door, and now that crunch time is here the niceties are being cut. I made a swell configuration wizard for Windows networking under Unix, and now it becomes obvious that a parallel configuration wizard for Unix networking needs to be done, but there's just no time. I've reached the point where the "moved to next release" feature list is growing, and it's disappointing to see so many things I thought we'd have time for this in release disappear into the next one.
By the way, we can all thank Microsoft for breaking a standard again. ( Rant about Microsoft's LDAP server. Way geeky. )
Anyway, now that that's out of my system, I have to figure out what to write next. The really sad part is that I have a new story series idea (I'm just a freakin' idea hamster, aren't I? Always on my little wheel, runnin' and runnin' and runnin'). I've almost never seen High Fantasy, the kind with wizards and so on, set it Ancient Rome. So, I sez to myself, "Self, why don't you write some?" I mean, isn't that why I started out writing? To generate interest in smut that was grammatically correct and properly spell-checked? (Few things gratify me more hitting Meta-$ and seeing it say 'GRAMMATICALLY is correct' the first time)
Anyway, I've got a keen protagonist, and Rome is always ready to supply base villains. I've got a scope set out for somewhere between thirty and sixty episodes; I figure each episode will be between 6,000 and 10,000 words. I've even got a five-year story arch with five smaller arches: hey, look, it's Babylon 5 with magic, Romans, and porn!
Now all I have to do is find the energy to write.
( Friday Five. Foody )
And I can't think of what to write. Oh, there's plenty to write. I have over 300 files in my "pending" or "working" directories, with 730,000 words or so in them. It's just that when I look at them, I don't feel all that inspired.
Maybe it's stress. Work has been unbearable recently; long hours, relentless pressure. The product is really good, but by all the Gods it must be perfect before it goes out the door, and now that crunch time is here the niceties are being cut. I made a swell configuration wizard for Windows networking under Unix, and now it becomes obvious that a parallel configuration wizard for Unix networking needs to be done, but there's just no time. I've reached the point where the "moved to next release" feature list is growing, and it's disappointing to see so many things I thought we'd have time for this in release disappear into the next one.
By the way, we can all thank Microsoft for breaking a standard again. ( Rant about Microsoft's LDAP server. Way geeky. )
Anyway, now that that's out of my system, I have to figure out what to write next. The really sad part is that I have a new story series idea (I'm just a freakin' idea hamster, aren't I? Always on my little wheel, runnin' and runnin' and runnin'). I've almost never seen High Fantasy, the kind with wizards and so on, set it Ancient Rome. So, I sez to myself, "Self, why don't you write some?" I mean, isn't that why I started out writing? To generate interest in smut that was grammatically correct and properly spell-checked? (Few things gratify me more hitting Meta-$ and seeing it say 'GRAMMATICALLY is correct' the first time)
Anyway, I've got a keen protagonist, and Rome is always ready to supply base villains. I've got a scope set out for somewhere between thirty and sixty episodes; I figure each episode will be between 6,000 and 10,000 words. I've even got a five-year story arch with five smaller arches: hey, look, it's Babylon 5 with magic, Romans, and porn!
Now all I have to do is find the energy to write.
( Friday Five. Foody )
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}