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eredienThe Signaller, Keith Roberts. One of my very very favorite short stories. Beautiful and creepy and fey as all get-out.
One of the major influences on my writing, in that I read it and shivered and immediately thought, "I want to write like that." Hope I'm getting a bit closer lately.
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- Working more on the City of the Dead story this evening after showing Princess Mononoke to my sister. I've been showing her some anime Sei lent me, and she likes that, too.
- Should finish, also, the word-virus story, as well as the story with the scientists I posted here a little earlier. I wonder if the story with the scientists would do better as a silent one-shot type comic; the ideas I am trying to deal with aren't coming across so well in words and might do much better with drawing.
(I am making this list because I want, very badly, to put everything else aside and get started on another story idea that hit me last weekend while I was eating pizza with Sei and Spooniest, but I know that if I do that it'll die immediately--and I haven't done enough research yet. (I love writing that entails a lot of research first; all the research attaches itself to the original story idea like rhyzomes to plant stems, making the entire thing richer. Let's just say I got out all the books on alchemy the local library system would let me request.))
Speaking of alchemy, I've got dibs to do a Fullmetal Alchemist video to the song Simple Man.
They called me for possible jury duty at the end of the month. Yay? Would be happier if it paid decently.
Go Olympics! It's great to just watch this, half a world away. I can't imagine what it would be like to be there like Kitten and Earis. Each time I turn on the TV I hope they made it to at least a few events. They ran the Marathon, for God's sake!
Moving plans proceed as Syona Keleste and I sniff around the Boston real estate market.
One of the major influences on my writing, in that I read it and shivered and immediately thought, "I want to write like that." Hope I'm getting a bit closer lately.
--
- Working more on the City of the Dead story this evening after showing Princess Mononoke to my sister. I've been showing her some anime Sei lent me, and she likes that, too.
- Should finish, also, the word-virus story, as well as the story with the scientists I posted here a little earlier. I wonder if the story with the scientists would do better as a silent one-shot type comic; the ideas I am trying to deal with aren't coming across so well in words and might do much better with drawing.
(I am making this list because I want, very badly, to put everything else aside and get started on another story idea that hit me last weekend while I was eating pizza with Sei and Spooniest, but I know that if I do that it'll die immediately--and I haven't done enough research yet. (I love writing that entails a lot of research first; all the research attaches itself to the original story idea like rhyzomes to plant stems, making the entire thing richer. Let's just say I got out all the books on alchemy the local library system would let me request.))
Speaking of alchemy, I've got dibs to do a Fullmetal Alchemist video to the song Simple Man.
They called me for possible jury duty at the end of the month. Yay? Would be happier if it paid decently.
Go Olympics! It's great to just watch this, half a world away. I can't imagine what it would be like to be there like Kitten and Earis. Each time I turn on the TV I hope they made it to at least a few events. They ran the Marathon, for God's sake!
Moving plans proceed as Syona Keleste and I sniff around the Boston real estate market.
