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October 10, 2011 in Blogs
I almost forgot it was Monday; or perhaps what I almost forgot was that Monday had its own agenda, that I had to post a temporal anomalies article to The Examiner. Thus it was late in the day, when I arrived here, that I realized I had not posted, and proceeded to remedy that by uploading Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel part 13: climax, to its proper place, and making the appropriate announcements. We’re reached the end of the main story, and the disaster that ultimately cannot be resolved, although we still have a denoument to address.
Then I saw that despite having kept up on Eric Ashley’s recent writings, I had a small book to read. I can only console myself on the time spent that he spent more writing than I did reading, and that it was worth reading. Three of the seven I had already read. The first two, Practise Bits: Ways 2 and Practise Bits: Ways 3, conclude the story begun last week of the schoolmistress and her runaway student, and the devastation her philosophy of feminism had wrought. Practise Bits: Action recalls a familiar character–the rabbit, actually–in a tense situation that is never quite explained. Practise Bits: Amoral/Hunter is two unrelated sketches of characters in the midst of events. A character sketch of a mob boss is the focus of Practise Bits: Broken, although that might be a story of which we’ll see more. Practise Bits: Mud is an interesting sort of fantasy allegory in which those who would reject reality are able to cause it to dissolve, and the heroes attempt to restore it. One of those heroes is sketched a bit more in the final article, Practise Bits: Hugh. As you can see, Eric has been busy this long weekend.
I’m still busy now, and had better focus on what I need to be doing.
–M. J. Young
Tadeusz said on October 11, 2011
And thanks. I’d like to be able to write a small novel roughly every two months, maybe with a month break in between.
I’m still feeling that I need to work on my descriptive skills more, and also on the Hero in the Midst of the Action and Is He Going to Make It Up the Cliff face as he sneaks in on th ePirates or not? The, you’re right in the midst of the action thing…which is what Action was somewhat trying to do with grounding itself in described reality at the same time. I don’t think it quite succeeded at that anyways.
I’m glad to see you’ve taken the FAQ to a successful end, and I look forward to reading the next one….Source Code is it?
M. J. Young said on October 11, 2011
Actually, there’s a “denoument” installment coming to finish FAQ, but then, yes, Monday will begin Source Code. That one’s all finished and ready to go, but it’s (unfortunately) going to have a short run.
Oh, if you have not seen it, you want to do so before Monday, because the first installment is called “spoiler” or something like that, and really, to appreciate the movie you have to see it from the beginning before you know the end, and I can’t really talk about the beginning without revealing the end, so make sure you see it. I know it was in Redbox, but I probably bought mine from Walmart (where I get most of my DVDs) or maybe Acme. Worth seeing, for certain–my wife liked it.
JohnA1nut said on October 11, 2011
Eric, you’ve seen T2, correct? You know the scene in there when Sarah is in the mental hospital, she’s making her escape, and she sees Arnold for the first time? She skids to a halt and starts running back? It’s like 30 seconds in the movie, in the book it was three pages. Telling what Sarah was thinking, what was going through her mind, her reaction. Point is, sometimes, there’s no such thing as too descriptive in writing.