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Well, here's 2012.
Over the past year, Facebook and Twitter have become my primary venues for expression, but I'm not entirely happy about that. Facebook engenders frivolity and argument w/o being a good medium for any real depth of expression or conversation, and frankly I'm sick of being both a product and a lab rat for their malicious interface experiments. Twitter is twitter, and I love it (far more than FB) but it is, by its nature, entirely about dropping pennies down the well.
So anyway, I have resolved to reclaim LJ, and here I am. I can't promise to avoid frivolity, argument, or penny-dropping, but I do hope to be, at least occasionally, more substantive and -- do I dare hope? -- interesting.
I'm determined to do some actual art in 2012.
I will probably continue to talk about writing a fair bit, because that occupies most of the mental real estate not taken up by my kids (wonderful!) and my job (horrorful!) but mostly that's because I find that sometimes it's the act of trying to explain something that forces me to frame it in a way where I can then see it more clearly myself.
Right now I'm about half-way through a revision pass on the Flesh-Eating Bacteria novel which, yes, I've been working on for too long. I suffered a concussion last March in a car accident (NOT my fault) and *still* have the headache to show for it, and it's done bad things to my memory and ability to focus, so something as comprehensively large and convoluted as the novel is very difficult to keep in my head enough to work on. It's progressing, but very slowly. I'm also working on a few shorts, which are a lot easier, and despite having egregious pacing problems with the current Work In Progress I expect I'll have it done by end of February at the latest. Trying to keep it from running away and becoming a novella.
I expect I'll also talk a bit about the interesting side of having suffered (albeit minor, certainly) a Traumatic Brain Injury, because it's hard to deal with sometimes, and at other times it's kinda fascinating in a I-damn-well-better-get-over-this way.
So, er. Uh. What else?
Having just said I wouldn't be doing this, I have a few works from 2011 which are eligible for Hugos should you wish to read and consider nominating them:
Surf, novelette, in the December Asimov's
By The Time I Get To Phoenix, short story, in Comets and Criminals #1, October, which can be read online for free here
The Ceiling Is Sky, novelette, in Interzone #234, May.
Obviously, whether or not you like them enough to vote for them, it matters more to me just that you found them fun and worth your time to read. If you really want to get the full author self-promotion thang, you can "like" my FB author page, which is here. You don't have to. But it's there.
Over the past year, Facebook and Twitter have become my primary venues for expression, but I'm not entirely happy about that. Facebook engenders frivolity and argument w/o being a good medium for any real depth of expression or conversation, and frankly I'm sick of being both a product and a lab rat for their malicious interface experiments. Twitter is twitter, and I love it (far more than FB) but it is, by its nature, entirely about dropping pennies down the well.
So anyway, I have resolved to reclaim LJ, and here I am. I can't promise to avoid frivolity, argument, or penny-dropping, but I do hope to be, at least occasionally, more substantive and -- do I dare hope? -- interesting.
I'm determined to do some actual art in 2012.
I will probably continue to talk about writing a fair bit, because that occupies most of the mental real estate not taken up by my kids (wonderful!) and my job (horrorful!) but mostly that's because I find that sometimes it's the act of trying to explain something that forces me to frame it in a way where I can then see it more clearly myself.
Right now I'm about half-way through a revision pass on the Flesh-Eating Bacteria novel which, yes, I've been working on for too long. I suffered a concussion last March in a car accident (NOT my fault) and *still* have the headache to show for it, and it's done bad things to my memory and ability to focus, so something as comprehensively large and convoluted as the novel is very difficult to keep in my head enough to work on. It's progressing, but very slowly. I'm also working on a few shorts, which are a lot easier, and despite having egregious pacing problems with the current Work In Progress I expect I'll have it done by end of February at the latest. Trying to keep it from running away and becoming a novella.
I expect I'll also talk a bit about the interesting side of having suffered (albeit minor, certainly) a Traumatic Brain Injury, because it's hard to deal with sometimes, and at other times it's kinda fascinating in a I-damn-well-better-get-over-this way.
So, er. Uh. What else?
Having just said I wouldn't be doing this, I have a few works from 2011 which are eligible for Hugos should you wish to read and consider nominating them:
Obviously, whether or not you like them enough to vote for them, it matters more to me just that you found them fun and worth your time to read. If you really want to get the full author self-promotion thang, you can "like" my FB author page, which is here. You don't have to. But it's there.
