Hello Livejournal

Well, dang, I don't post often and I really miss LJ and do not want to contribute to its demise.

Dang! I hate fucking Facebook. I've been playing there a bit lately and it is a further symptom of everything that is wrong in the world. In Facebook, you and your friends zoom around each other's heads like mosquitoes, landing only long enough to draw just enough blood to barely sustain friendship at a comatose level.

My life constricted terribly when the reno started in May (or February, really, if you include planning and buying). I have been determined not to let my writing slow down and family has made many demands. As a result, LJ went. Facebook is supposed to be a better option because it's for people in a rush, rush, rush But really, if the writing isn't at least a few paragraphs long, it is mostly a waste of time.

I desperately need some time away from Toronto on my own. I have two more vacation weeks left in 2009 and I can't really take them back to back; so that's two one-week vacations. Where should I go? New York is obvious and easy, but I have weird bug in my head about going to New Mexico. I wonder if I could find a cheap flight? Or Seattle? Meet a few of my friends there?

Maybe I'll post-spam for a while. So much to say.

Novelist

As I stagger towards the finish line on Days of Becoming, it is clear to me that I wish to continue writing novels. I should point out that the next novel is not fanfic. It is a horror/urban-fantasy novel, and it's working title is "Way, Way Up in the Dirty, Dirty Depths".

The idea has been floating around in my head for at least a decade, but I consciously stopped myself planning it a couple of years ago, or even letting its images ripen. Stories left on the shelf too long go rancid, but if they are still in a germinal stage, they keep longer. In about July I watered the seeds, added some fertilizer and let it start to grow (BLOCK THAT METAPHOR!). I think I will be ready to begin writing in January.

The tentative plan is to release it as a regular podcast. I've enjoyed the episodic writing I've been doing with my fanfic and I would rather keep to that than just bury myself in a book for a year and then try to release it somehow. However, many questions arise: can I keep to a weekly podcast schedule? How many words would that have to be? Is it a bad idea to have an irregular podcast that only shows up when a chapter is done? Am I going to find the need to make individual 'casts somewhat self-enclosed constricting in terms of the whole novel?

Dickens did it. I should be able to.

I am dealing with a lot of fear that no one will listen to it. Writing fanfic gives you a built-in audience. Over 1000 people are following DOB and that is a huge wind in my sails. Will I be able to keep going if I people aren't listening?

I think it will be a good book... I'm excited to begin writing it...