Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Why was there no entry yesterday, you ask? There was no entry yesterday because, after I spent 45 minutes writing one, Explorer crashed, taking about 400 words of my text with it. I was entirely too angry and hadn't the heart to start it over again. Mostly, it was a polemic against the taking of "days off" by writers, with little bits of news thrown in, closing up with some ponderments about whether or not I want to waste anymore breath on George Bush and his fellow thugs. Anyway, that's why there was no entry yesterday.
Monday, that fabled day off, came to nothing much but the realization that I should have been writing. The high point was a trip to AFX Studios to see Andre, who's finishing up my pulse pistol.
And speaking of Farscape, according to a story at IGN, there might be reason to hope at long last, ten and a half months after the cancellation was announced. Here's a link directly to the story — IGN Filmforce. I'm going to remain cautiously hopeful until we hear something official from Henson. It would be wonderful if an announcement is made a San Diego Comic Con this weekend.
According to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press, Waycross may be ready next week. My apologies again that this one has taken so long, and double apologies to all who preordered. The printer made some atrocious screw up and is to be blamed for the delay. Anyway, it will be along shortly, with all Ted Naifeh's gorgeous illustrations. Also, the proof of the very, very short chapbook which I wrote for Camelot Books, "Alabaster," arrived and I need to make my red marks on that and get it back in the mail.
Bill also reminded me that I need to get the lettered-edition extras for Low Red Moon out to him soon, underscoring my conclusions about writers and days off.
Yesterday I did 1,315 words on Chapter Six of Murder of Angels. And now, with the chapter half finished, I'm going to have to set it aside to write the story for the Candlewick Press anthology. I set it aside with great reluctance. I seem to have finally found my way into this novel. But the story will be a short one, fortunately, only about 4,000-5,000 words, so I shouldn't be detoured for more than a few days. I'll try to get a good start on the story today.
That's all I can think of for now. So. I go and work.
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