Random quick updates

[chipotle]

In no particular order…

• Work is kicking my ass recently. It’s been an interesting experience, in the oh, yes, I am at a startup, aren’t I? sort of sense. It’s made writing difficult and driven out enthusiasm for personal coding, though, and also rather cut down on my time online.

• On a not entirely unrelated note, I’m about ready to throw in the towel with the Excursion Society MUCK. I’ve had little time for it over the last year and honestly not all that much enthusiasm, even though I appreciate the diehards who’ve stuck with it; it’s mostly still around just because of them. I may think more on other systems to do in the future, like an MU* set in Ranea. (After I get my other programming projects back on track. After I’m willing to do programming on my own time again.)

• I keep starting and stopping other blogs around the web, because I’m just like that. It occurred to me that if there’s any topic I really should be writing about somewhere, it’s not politics or programming or even fiction writing, it’s cocktails. If this thought goes anywhere, I’ll let you know.

• I contemplated the “blog like it’s the end of the world” zombie thing that’s going on today, but ya know, it seemed like it would be too much effort for today. (And besides, I already wrote an apocalyptic plague story recently.)

• Speaking of cocktails, I’m really tempted to go to Elixir tonight or the weekend, but probably won’t. Probably.

Comments

[kynn.livejournal.com]

I contemplated the “blog like it’s the end of the world” zombie thing that’s going on today, but ya know, it seemed like it would be too much effort for today.

Plus, zombie day sucks.

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

No, I think vampire day would suck. Hahaha! Ha... ahem.

To make zombies particularly interesting to me (i.e., enough to write about), I'd need to give them enough of a different spin that it'd require too much effort for today. And, as I suggested, it's kind of a been-there-done-that thing for me anyway -- the last story I wrote, "Carrier," is as close to zombie fiction as I expect to get. (Unless I expand "Carrier," which could be done, but that would be less about throwing buckets of gore at the reader than at getting into, as Erma Felna might say, all the sociopolitical ramifications of the story's premise.)