I haven’t been well this week. You could say I’ve had quite the workout. So, there hasn’t been a lot of progress. That’s the other side of the accountability coin, isn’t it? Not just to list successes, but to talk about when things didn’t get done. Welcome to season 1, episode 2!
WRITING PROGRESS
- Longest Writing Chain This Week: 1 day.
- Short Story 01. A few line edits, and a little re-plotting of the third act. Nothing to speak of. Yes, it is better than nothing; I’m better at acknowledging that than I used to be. A little.
- Comic Script 01. No progress.
FEEDING MY HEAD. I listened to the next couple of episodes of Season three of the SERIAL podcast. The third episode in particular, “Misdemeanor, Meet Mr. Lawsuit”, hit close to home. My old home that is, where I grew up. On a related note, I do have some parallel reading queued up.
I’ve been migrating my podcasts from one app to Google Podcasts because I’m becoming rapidly spoiled by the relatively seamless syncing between devices. I stumbled onto the LONG DISTANCE podcast, and now this is #2 on my queue right after SERIAL. The trailer alone should tell you why this is up my alley.
I haven’t checked this out yet, but did you know there’s a digital archive of HEAVY METAL?
THERE’S A STORY IN HERE SOMEWHERE. Appropos of William Gibson being named by SFWA as the 35th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master…
- We have bounty hunters buying up cell phone location data
- Dev teams getting access to home security cam videos, willy-nilly
It’s almost like decades of cypberpunk literature, film, and role-playing games should’ve prepared us for all this!
IN THE WILD. As baggage has been on my mind lately, literally and figuratively…
