Monday, November 06, 2006 Well, the weekend was slow, mostly because I was coming down sick with a cold and I decided to rest between failing to fix the range (well, at least I have three burners again) and trying to organize things a bit. I got up early...still on daylight savings time?...and got dressed, and sat in front of the computer and put down some words. I also managed to wolf down my lunch and write some more. Usually writing at my desk doesn't work, because the second someone asks me to do something, it's control + s and me moving on to what needs done. Which I like...getting things done keeps my mental health. I watched a bit of the Australian TV show Tripping Over and am not certain that I am all that impressed, but at least it has Paul McGann. Paul McGann being in something makes up for a lot of short comings. I also finished watching To the Ends of the Earth, which left me feeling vaguely dissatisfied. And something happened that made me really unhappy at the end. Super unhappy. And it had no purpose to it, aside from being somewhat symbolic, but it was an act which took away any pleasure I could have derived from the ending. Today we finally ended chapter one, and have entered into the domain of chapter two. Monaco Johnson gets to go to Wal Mart...um, Sam's Store, and she goes to work. Her apartment is modeled after the rehab facility my father spent so much time in, though her apartment is the first room he stayed in...the one he got to leave because his room mate and his room mate's wife decided to have sex. Loudly. Horrifying my poor father who has always shunned voyeuristic things. I was tempted to use the second room, which was much bigger, as it was meant to host four beds, but realized Monaco isn't there to make a life for herself. She also starts her first day of work and meets the second main character, Ben. Yes, I've stuck with the original idea, that Monaco guards soda trucks. :D I will have to change Coca Cola I suppose, the way I changed Wal Mart to Sam's Store, to avoid copyright infringement, but for now I'm leaving it the same. One thing that has occurred to me as I've been writing is that Cindy of 1995-96 wrote her technology differently than Cindy of 2006. As I'm writing I am trying to reconstruct a little from the past, even though I don't have the stuff to refer to anymore, and I realize that what seemed rather clever to me then was completely passé. But I am proud of my holographic mirrors, which occurred to me today when I realized that a department store wouldn't have clothes racks anymore. The idea that employees live in the department store came from watching the news and seeing that some Wal Marts now had Dr.'s offices in them. And I thought that Wal Mart could become the next, ultimate, Company Store. You may be familiar with this: coal companies used to have their people living on the site, working on the site, and they paid in scrip, and forced the workers to buy all their food, clothes, everything from the Company Store. it just feel like a logical next step. The challenge in this, which will be actually more for the second draft, is to make it more. When you write fantasy, you have to make it more magical. When you write something that is SF, though this is definitely going to be an SF/F blend, you have to make it more techy. While the theme of this book is more realistic, it still has to feel futuristic. I might avoid pining myself down with a date because of that. I mentioned theme. With every book I think you ask a question. Mysteries are a little skewered, because the question is often obscured by the main questions, "Who killed/stole/etc so and so?" With Blue Moon my question was "What is Magic?" With this book it is "What is Moral?" It'll be interesting to see what the answer turns out to be. The new part is up at: http://invisiblelight.blogspot.com/2006/11/in-which-we-meet-monaco-and-ben.html Permalink Cindy scribed this at 8:47 PM 0 comments

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