Wielding a Red Sword - reading

Finished "Wielding a Red Sword" by Piers Anthony. To sum it up: "Mars Needs Women." I thought the final standoff against Satan wasn't quite as inventive as other incarnations experienced, but the series continues along.

Blade Runner - reading

Finished "Blade Runner" - the novelization of the movie based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick. It was weird. I'm going to have to watch the movie again (and I hope to this weekend - I have the director's cut at home) and see how it compares. After that, I'm going to have to find the original Electric Sheep and compare them all.

With a Tangled Skein - reading

Finished "With a Tangled Skein" by Piers Anthony. The third book in the series restores my opinion of the series as a whole. Very well written. Maybe a little misogynistic, but for good reason.

After the story is an author's note in which he mentioned the impact of "fate" on his life and on the writing of the novel.

When I got to work today, I parked my truck in the remote parking lot. The shuttle driver was there and watched me park. Rather than wait for me to get out of the truck, he looked at me as he pulled away, so I walked. While I was walking, I had the inspiration for a scene in one of the stories I have had on the back burner for a couple years, and got the inspiration to work on that story again. I opened the file that contains the notes for that story and printed them out. I have made a few comments on it today, and started to come up with storyboard Post-Its that I will use to organize the story into some semblance of cohesion so that the writing part can begin in earnest. I'm not sure, but I think had I caught the shuttle this morning, I would not have thought of that scene and would not have pursued working on that story today.

I'm not deluding myself. I know that I have some energy I want to put into the story right now. I just don't know how far it's going to carry me since I have several other things competing for my attention right now. Wish me luck!

Results of Script Frenzy 2010

Script Frenzy was not kind to me this year. The project I took on - creating a web site (get it? each web page = a page for Script Frenzy?) - ended up having a bunch of very distracting technical issues that got in the way of making good progress. I got a lot done regardless, but was basically shut down a little over half-way through the month.

This is a web site I would like to get done and out of the way, though, so I'd like to return to it soon.