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Monday, October 27. 2008
Welcome to the Frozen Puke Fountain, yet another pointless contribution to the blogosphere. We all like to spew, don't we? Well, I may as well throw my own bits into the ring. As it were.
I have three reasons for starting this blog. One is to track my own progress and growth as a writer. Another is to give my friends and family a means by which to do the same, should they have any interest in doing so. Hi, friends and family! A third is the vain belief that someone who didn't already know me might stumble across these pages and find them entertaining. Finally, there's some part of me that hopes this will help me become a better writer, with "better" more specifically meaning "published." Okay, four reasons.
Though my chosen genre is speculative fiction, I thoroughly enjoy writing parody and satire. One of my goals is to catalog the ways in which writing can be (intentionally) funny. Well, there's Humor Type #1 for my list: "compact implication of an unexpected idea." With one word, I made you think about blogs that you laugh at, not with (present company excluded, one hopes).
I'm writing here purely in a vacuum, with no background research to speak of, which is horrible from a scientific method standpoint but wonderful from a blogging standpoint. I can declaim terribly old ideas as though they were fresh and new because, to me, they probably are. I'm going about it this way for the joy of self-discovery, here meant in the mental sense and not in the genital sense. There's Humor Type #2: "unexpected word." There's one word in the sentence above that serves as a bit of a speed bump, and changes around your sense of where the sentence was going.
Where are these sentences going? Some of their close relatives will be going into a nascent novel I'll be crafting for National Novel Writing Month 2008. I did (and "won") NaNoWriMo last year, and found it a wonderful experience that isn't about writing a novel at all. Well, maybe a little bit. But there's much more to it than that.
Last year's effort was a spec-fic satirical work called 200 PC. It's about a future world where political correctness has been taken to extremes, and it follows the adventures of three twenty-first century people in this alien environment. Yes, it's over 50,000 words long; no, it's not finished yet. I produced 50K+ words in November 2007, and something like 2K words in the ten months that followed. I really do plan to finish that novel -- I do so love the characters, as well as the setting -- but not right now.
Right now, to follow the rules of NaNoWriMo, I must turn my energies to a wholly new work, and that's what I'll do, just as soon as 1 November arrives. Do I know what I'm going to write about yet? Not completely, but I have some ideas. Does that worry me? No. Because I learned something important last year...and I'll talk about it in this blog over the coming month.
Hey, if you've got nothing to do in November (or even if you do) then join us!
Welcome to the Frozen Puke Fountain, yet another pointless contribution to the blogosphere. We all like to spew, don't we? Well, I may as well throw my own bits into the ring. As it were.
I have three reasons for starting this blog. One is to track my own progress and growth as a writer. Another is to give my friends and family a means by which to do the same, should they have any interest in doing so. Hi, friends and family! A third is the vain belief that someone who didn't already know me might stumble across these pages and find them entertaining. Finally, there's some part of me that hopes this will help me become a better writer, with "better" more specifically meaning "published." Okay, four reasons.
Though my chosen genre is speculative fiction, I thoroughly enjoy writing parody and satire. One of my goals is to catalog the ways in which writing can be (intentionally) funny. Well, there's Humor Type #1 for my list: "compact implication of an unexpected idea." With one word, I made you think about blogs that you laugh at, not with (present company excluded, one hopes).
I'm writing here purely in a vacuum, with no background research to speak of, which is horrible from a scientific method standpoint but wonderful from a blogging standpoint. I can declaim terribly old ideas as though they were fresh and new because, to me, they probably are. I'm going about it this way for the joy of self-discovery, here meant in the mental sense and not in the genital sense. There's Humor Type #2: "unexpected word." There's one word in the sentence above that serves as a bit of a speed bump, and changes around your sense of where the sentence was going.
Where are these sentences going? Some of their close relatives will be going into a nascent novel I'll be crafting for National Novel Writing Month 2008. I did (and "won") NaNoWriMo last year, and found it a wonderful experience that isn't about writing a novel at all. Well, maybe a little bit. But there's much more to it than that.
Last year's effort was a spec-fic satirical work called 200 PC. It's about a future world where political correctness has been taken to extremes, and it follows the adventures of three twenty-first century people in this alien environment. Yes, it's over 50,000 words long; no, it's not finished yet. I produced 50K+ words in November 2007, and something like 2K words in the ten months that followed. I really do plan to finish that novel -- I do so love the characters, as well as the setting -- but not right now.
Right now, to follow the rules of NaNoWriMo, I must turn my energies to a wholly new work, and that's what I'll do, just as soon as 1 November arrives. Do I know what I'm going to write about yet? Not completely, but I have some ideas. Does that worry me? No. Because I learned something important last year...and I'll talk about it in this blog over the coming month.
Hey, if you've got nothing to do in November (or even if you do) then join us!
I have three reasons for starting this blog. One is to track my own progress and growth as a writer. Another is to give my friends and family a means by which to do the same, should they have any interest in doing so. Hi, friends and family! A third is the vain belief that someone who didn't already know me might stumble across these pages and find them entertaining. Finally, there's some part of me that hopes this will help me become a better writer, with "better" more specifically meaning "published." Okay, four reasons.
Though my chosen genre is speculative fiction, I thoroughly enjoy writing parody and satire. One of my goals is to catalog the ways in which writing can be (intentionally) funny. Well, there's Humor Type #1 for my list: "compact implication of an unexpected idea." With one word, I made you think about blogs that you laugh at, not with (present company excluded, one hopes).
I'm writing here purely in a vacuum, with no background research to speak of, which is horrible from a scientific method standpoint but wonderful from a blogging standpoint. I can declaim terribly old ideas as though they were fresh and new because, to me, they probably are. I'm going about it this way for the joy of self-discovery, here meant in the mental sense and not in the genital sense. There's Humor Type #2: "unexpected word." There's one word in the sentence above that serves as a bit of a speed bump, and changes around your sense of where the sentence was going.
Where are these sentences going? Some of their close relatives will be going into a nascent novel I'll be crafting for National Novel Writing Month 2008. I did (and "won") NaNoWriMo last year, and found it a wonderful experience that isn't about writing a novel at all. Well, maybe a little bit. But there's much more to it than that.
Last year's effort was a spec-fic satirical work called 200 PC. It's about a future world where political correctness has been taken to extremes, and it follows the adventures of three twenty-first century people in this alien environment. Yes, it's over 50,000 words long; no, it's not finished yet. I produced 50K+ words in November 2007, and something like 2K words in the ten months that followed. I really do plan to finish that novel -- I do so love the characters, as well as the setting -- but not right now.
Right now, to follow the rules of NaNoWriMo, I must turn my energies to a wholly new work, and that's what I'll do, just as soon as 1 November arrives. Do I know what I'm going to write about yet? Not completely, but I have some ideas. Does that worry me? No. Because I learned something important last year...and I'll talk about it in this blog over the coming month.
Hey, if you've got nothing to do in November (or even if you do) then join us!
Craig on :
The jury is still out at the moment. Either way, I will track your progress.
Brent on :