Recent Work
I’ve been awfully quiet about my work lately, mainly because not much has been going on. Only news I really have is that I finished a short story, loosely titled Pennies that I’m going to be putting through the proverbial meat grinder in a few days. This is going to be a great test for me to see how my editing techniques work. It’s honestly been a year since I finished anything of any consequence (I’m still working on And the Silence Screamed). What’s good is that the story is bad enough, yet has enough potential to really keep me interested. There’s a lot of shit there, a lot of loose metaphors and interesting characters that I want to unearth more.
That said, I’ve been tossing around the idea lately of picking up Salamander again. Not like, rewriting from scratch, but the actual draft I got 2/3 of a way through from June-November 2006. Things would change, of course, but recently I think I found a way of making the story work in its high-fantasy form. Besides, it would be a great exercise in working a story that is in a hole, something that I’ll need to learn if I want to do this professionally. We’ll see how things go.
In other news, I have a new design of ESS in the works. It really is just a change of color scheme with a tweaked navigation system. That, and I’m working on making my profile and stuff sound much less pretentious. Again, we’ll see how that goes.