So, the progress on The Golden Record has been going slower than it has in the past, but that's for a number of reasons. Firstly, my old laptop started to die at the end of February, so I've been getting accustomed to having a ThinkPad T14 (and all of its bells and whistles, that is most definitely a double-edged sword for me, plus I wanted something that would last me for several years to come) and also moving all of my writing from my DoK over to OneDrive, something I probably should've started before earlier today. Granted, I think when I get everything sorted out as far as what to copy and what not to copy, I'll be okay, but for now, I'm going to go back to the tried-and-true method of stepping away from my project for a while (maybe a couple of weeks, maybe a month) and looking back at it with fresh eyes after some time has passed. Granted, I'm still going to keep writing, to keep the creative juices flowing, if nothing else. Still, I'm not going to try to rush it like I had tried to do with Aleks meets Inga, mostly because I don't want this to turn into something that I don't think is even up to my basically-nonexistent standards, though that has yet to be seen, if I'm being honest with myself. Really, that book is on a perpetual back burner, even through I could probably finish proofing it to my eyes within a day or two and get a friend of mine to go over it to see what I'll inevitably miss.
Letting that crap go for now, the main character in An Exercise in Frustration isn't quite a personification of myself anymore, at least not to my eyes, though Aleksey Buryakov isn't getting the axe yet, or ever. I don't really do that to my characters. Granted, because of that, I've got another character (I think I mentioned this in a previous post, but I'll do it again. Redundancy and all), who is a bat, living in Alpines City, and the character is set in 1995. For those of you who know the link to the website I post short stories on, you'll probably be seeing the first of him publicly within a month's time, or maybe not. Again, it all depends on how well I can get my brain to work (something I don't have high hopes for as I'm still at 60% through The Outsiders, and I've had the book since Christmas, not to mention I've got another book added to my collection, A Kim Jong Il Production, so that's fun), so everything is all dependent on… you know.
I know I haven't given much of a thinker this time, and I do apologize for that, but I do, however, also respect the things that come from just shutting your brain off from time to time, though I think mine's power button is broken because, even with medicine, my mind is still going when I'm asleep. Granted, it's March and I'm in the same place that Top Gear almost got themselves killed in by painting slogans on cars and driving through the state, so the medicine keeps me awake for different reasons for the while. I'll get everything sorted soon, I hope. Anyway, I'll likely put up a preview of a different part of the story like I used to (somewhere in the range of five hundred and a thousand words, or thereabouts) sometime during the week and give another preview, as well as possibly upload character bios again… I do miss not racking my brain to come up with an article on the spot, it was just… easier, somehow. Granted, when I started this blog/website up, I didn't even consider the idea of a set schedule, then I realized that Google lets you time posts, so they go up at 7:00/7:30a Central on Saturdays now, given that nothing causes me to deviate from getting something written the other six days of the week! It doesn't, but just in case, I do tend to keep something with me on the ready all of the time, just in case of a good fire. Also, I'm going to start putting a link to my Kobo bookstore on these pages from now on because I've recently discovered that the post I have set to always be pinned on the front page doesn't behave on mobile. It behaves on standard desktop browsers, but not on phones or most tablets I've seen it showing on, so it's entirely likely that you guys have been missing out, even though I consider myself nowhere close to being a good author. Really, it's just therapeutic, and if I can make a buck or two on the side, then why not. You know? Anyway, Happy Easter to those of you that celebrate it!
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