Ehaema

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

One Step At A Time

An ant carries a one millimetre square microchip in its mandibles, illustrating the work that is being done in nanotechnology.

Source: Reuters

On the Death Rituals of Ants

The Order of the Good Death never fails to brighten my day. I may try and work in a reference to oleic acid on my revision pass.

I'm enjoying working with Scrivener. The book is now divided into greater sections and chapters, and I'll be working on summarizing each of them using the index card tool so I can get a better visual sense of flow and pacing for each of the storylines. It'll also generate a version in e-reader format (or any of several other choices) when it's that time.

Sunday, June 09, 2013

STATION IDENT 060913

Source: Bryan Calloway

Projects for today:

Top Priority

Import novel into Scrivener, chop into chapters, improve structure. (in-progress)
Push-ups, sit-ups, nourishment, wash gym clothes. Maintain the Machine.
Hyperventilate about things, alternate brooding with existential terror, 10 reps each

2nd Priority

Write up first impressions of Remember Me; post blog to Dtoid.
Fix bugs in Cyclic Dream, add variant endings, make it nicer.
Notes for next novel concept
Research grad schools as a pacifying escape fantasy, ponder life choices
Jump around to angry music
Plug in the Ouya I got in the mail on Friday, investigate

3rd Priority

Sleep
Can't sleep; clowns will eat me

Introduction of Sorts

I am Eidolon.

I have had many names, in different times and places. They're not hard to discover; look in the Stalkbox if you're curious.

For the past year, I've been writing a novel in public. And I've finished!

You can read it, if you want, using the Archive widget below. You don't necessarily have to read it in order, but it begins on Leap Day of 2012 and moves forward from there. It ends in March 2013.

I really enjoyed that process; I might do it again, as soon as I've finished off a couple of smaller projects that are coming due. I do intend to do a revision pass and edit this into something more manuscript-like in the very near future. But for now I'm leaving this first draft up as it is, for people to enjoy, and for me to remember how it began.

For now, I'll place the occasional thought or musing here once or twice a week, just to keep the cobwebs from gathering.

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Thanks for visiting this place, outside of the other places. Spend as much time as you like. We'll see you again... won't we?