Busy Week

Would you believe that I actually just spent the last several days in a straight writing frenzy?

Aside from the obvious geekitude of posting comments on the Playworks forums discussing the various intricacies of the Matrices, (And then talking with other people in real life and on various electronic platforms about it) there was also the ongoing research of the Cambodia documentary and, most pressing of all the, the sudden announcement that the next issue of Playworks itself was, come hell or highwater, going to be in the first week of June, making today the final deadline for all articles.

This after being told the day before that I was tapped for several articles and I was now the official letters page guy. So many rants were spun out, a couple of games were reviewed and one main feature was, I am sorry to report, completely fabricated as the company that is so desperately wanting to plug their game is also not releasing any copies, demo or otherwise, until it comes out in stores.

I feel especially bad about that.

But at last the whirl wind is over and I can get back to more pressing issues like:

1) I still owe the girlfriend a web comic, a three pager.

2) I still need to put the final touches on the Jen rewrite.

3) I have to start on my “Young Tolkien In Love” short story which, it has now been revealed to me by the muse, will invovle dwarves who have taken refuge in the USSR and are spouting Marxist doctrine at every opportunity.

4) Finish watching borrowed DVDs, the pile is manageably small now.

5) Finish reading Big Bill’s Pattern Recognition as I think I need a reinjection of style into my prose. Though to be honest, I don’t there’s very much room for that kind of artful description in my next novel, since that’s going to center itself largely around the idea that Vampires and Elves exist and have been at war with each other for quite some time.

By the way, I am thoroughly annoyed and dismayed that Underworld a picture starring Kate Beckinsale is almost ready for release as it more or less co-opts a similar idea, only with vampires and werewolves. Oh well…

To be fair the ideas aren’t that similar, except for the vampires part. Bloodwood is, for all intents and purposes, me going insane and just trying to write something fun for once without all the angst and drama. It’s supposed to be an “ensemble” novel where I concentrate on a, for me anyway, fairly large group of main characters and go back and forth between the Elves with their rapid fire crossbows and the Vampires with their modified guns to fire iron bullets. But that may be giving entirely too much and I doubt of it’s any interest at the moment since I’m nowhere near famous and when you’re Not Famous your ideas for future projects hold about as much public interest as the death of little Sally’s goldfish. Film at 11.

Oh, watched Being John Malkovich again. By the seven moons of rimbor that’s a freaky ass film, ain’t it?