All right... now the for-reals post. The thing about The Force Unleashed was not news about me; it was simply a rant, a way to vent my ire at having those hours of my days wasted in such a manner. This post will actually be about consequential matters.
Last Thursday I came home from work at about 10:00 after being violently ill at my stomach. This continued in bouts for the next two days, keeping me home from work and largely confined to either bed or couch. Sleep was lost due to waking up in the middle of the night to throw up a few times. I could eat nothing, which didn't matter because I didn't want to anyway. I had a high fever and I ached everywhere. Mayo Clinic website suggests food poisoning. I find this likely; no one else in my family or anyone at work is sick or getting sick.
To sum up: My weekend was not fun.
Now, having said that, it did give me some time to bang on the outline for my book a little. In my head; I have not put this thing on paper just yet. This is a new project. I might have mentioned it before, but the fantasy-esque item I was writing has now taken back seat to other ideas in my head, perhaps forever. It was never a particularly inspired tale; I invented it out of necessity. None of my sci-fi yarns wanted to jump up and fly, so I thought perhaps a change of tactics was in order. The trouble was, once I changed tactics, nothing came to me. I had no inspiration. So I forced a tale into existence that was, sorry to say, fairly typical and lame. I then tried to breathe life into it, make it not so typical, not so lame, make it feel like something that well and truly came from me. I have had, as yet, few successes in that direction.
So I'm going to try to start something new. I had an idea for a story centering around a computer programmer (a code monkey if you will) who works a pretty normal desk job, but suddenly starts to see in his code strange patterns that appear to point to future events in various parts of the world. The hints make no sense at all until the events happen, and no one he shows these things to can see the pattern he sees. Suspense thriller ensues.
We'll see where this goes.
5 comments:
I like it, but I'm one of those people who sees patterns in everything. It's right up my alley. *grin*
Write it, boy! Write it and make your wife proud(er)!
Code Monkey and A Beautiful Mind, mixed in a delirious fevered stupor. :-p Totally just kidding there. Get to it already. You've yet to actually let me see any of your writing. :) I'm sure it'll turn out just spiffy.
Glad you're feeling better too, btw.
You have to go easy on a prospective novelist. Writers tend to be very protective of their work before it's "live".
Jason shows me his writing, because he knows I won't lie about whether it's good or not. He also knows if I praise it, he's on fire.
Of course, you could see his writing beautifully showcased if you'd watch us roleplay. ;) j/k
Hmm.. I'm trying to get him to write a serial. He's excellent at writing short stories with an ultimate backstory going on. I really think he'd be great at writing for periodicals or magazines.
I've never had a problem watching you two RP, I even said so when playing WoW and EQ. Just don't force me into it.
No worries. :) I don't think we have to worry about that, do we?
Or... do we...? B'whahah!
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