In line with updating this story to the present day or even near future, I’ve come to wonder if casting Susan as an up and coming newspaper reporter is still a good idea. Newspapers have fallen out of favor in the age of the blog, and while they still carry an important seal of authority, [...]
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This week’s meeting with the Asimovs brought up an interesting point. If I’m not careful, I could plan this book to death without actually getting around to writing it. With that said, and the other Dead Asimovs glaring at me holding their menacing nerf bats, I think I’d better lay out some milestones for what [...]
Today we take a closer look at our protagonist. History will remember Daniel Cho as George Washington for the whole planet. A war hero who first defeated the demons and then liberated humanity from the tyrrany of the angels, Daniel became the president of the first global government, solidified world peace in his two terms [...]
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Okay, I have to establish three things in order for the book to make sense. I have to establish that in this version of Earth, the meme of immortals walking among us already exists, if only as a kook conspiracy theory like the Masons or Illuminati. I have to establish the existence of a lost [...]
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Still not sure what the answer is to yesterday’s question, but I did realize something else. The answer to the question as asked is “nothing.” There’s no way to convince everyone. There are still nutjobs out there that insist the moon landing was faked, there’s people who are convinced the World Trade towers were blown [...]
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While I struggle to get rolling again (I wonder if the Connecticut for Lieberman Party has any of that “joementum” left over?), I figured now’s as good a time as any to get y’all up to speed on the new book. What follows, then, is an edited and expanded version of the journal I’ve been [...]
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Rick commented yesterday that while I’m taking as long to write BHH/UC as Tolkien took to write LotR, Tolkien had considerably more time and less stress than I do. Not to take advantage of such excuses, but I’ve had almost no time to do anything writerly today. I ran late getting out of the house [...]
Got the following from one of the Asimovs regarding my current plan:
Ever since I’ve known you, you’ve been constantly re-working the same stories. Do they get better each time? Sure, but you’ve long since reached the point of diminishing returns. I’m tired of reading about how you’re going to rewrite the same old stories. Let [...]
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For the past week or so I’ve been keeping a development journal detailing my thoughts about reworking Revelation. I’ve sent the first several entries on to the Asimovs and I asked Josh if I should post them to this blog. He said no, that they were too “Inside Baseball” and that people don’t really want [...]
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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve come to terms with why I write. Writing is my stab at immortality, at leaving a legacy. Once I had that figured out, the next question became: what do I write?
I’ve got a lot of ideas, a lot of projects that have been sitting on the back burner [...]
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