...on Amy's part.wallpaper rangarok
I now have a page for tracking the status on my various writing projects with commentary and everything.wallpaper rangarok
Mind you, much of it is still very rough draft. There's a lot of information I need to add. I'll be working on that five and ten minutes at a time each morning.wallpaper rangarok
So thanks to Amy for a bunch of trial and error making all the pages display properly. It was five hours of fixing one thing and somehow breaking something else in the process. Finally everything seems fixed.wallpaper rangarok
...or as fixed as it's gonna be. There are a couple of aspects I think she's still not 100% happy with, but it looks like she can live with it. I know I can. :-)wallpaper rangarok
Now, one of the projects I mention there is Killing-Time, that "other blog" I've mentioned a couple of times. It's another blog, so it's largely in that reverse-order format blogs are always in. It's all fiction (it just seems worth pointing that out clearly...). He's a hitman, and it's a journal about his view on life. Part of it was a writing exercise in character building. Some of it was a challenge I put to myself.wallpaper rangarok
The original idea had been a book I'd started writing back in early college. At the time, I thought I'd try to get it published as a memoir, and see what kind of debate it stirred on whether it was real or not. But what got me hooked on the idea was trying to see if I could get people to believe it. It was especially about whether I could make the guy feel real enough. Not just real enough to believe he could be out there, but real enough that he could be just any guy on the street.wallpaper rangarok
It was a process I for the most part enjoyed greatly. It was interesting having the guy living with us for a while. I considered all the day to day stuff as "what would KT's opinion be?" And some of the readers really seemed to get hooked, which encouraged me.wallpaper rangarok
Six months later he was still getting more readers on average than I get. *Shrug*wallpaper rangarok
But in the end I didn't have the time to commit to doing it as well as I thought the readers deserved. So rather than do it part way, I ended it. I talk more about all that on the project page for it. I'll probably add more commentary on it later, and there's probably more bloggage coming up about it. But that's enough for right now. There's a little boy that wants me to color with him. I can't refuse. :-)wallpaper rangarok
Posted by fictionman at November 13, 2005 08:18 PM
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