Posted by connor on February 4, 2011
In yesterday’s post (a good one, you should read it!) I mentioned the value in working on a number of different projects. Sometimes I work on a lot at one time (meaning in a single week), and other times I space them out more.
Right now I’m mostly preoccupied with promoting Hungry Rats and revising my novel Urbantasm. The latter is a Romance (in the Victor Hugo sense, not in the Danielle Steel sense) I first drafted as a seventeen year old. So I’ve been working on it for almost half of my life. I want it to be finished two years from now.
On that note, I have a Facebook page for the fictitious X Automotives, the major employer of fictitious Arkaic, Michigan in Urbantasm. You should like it, just in the spirit of frivolous fun.
It’s Friday today! Leave a comment, and let me know what you’ve been working on, writing and otherwise.
Posted by connor on October 24, 2007
I’ve been having dizzy spells lately.
I hadn’t had one in years and then about a month ago, at a reading, during an almost claustrophobically erotic piece by a friend of mine, I suddenly saw stars and felt like I would pass out. I remember being worried that I would collapse and people would think it was in response to the very visceral imagery.
A few days ago, I had another spell, and now I’m having a third.
It sucks, and slightly concerns me.
I’ve been writing some friends copious emails talking about a wide range of subjects including: academia, literary theory, art, society, blah blah blah. It all comes down to the fact that, while there are a number of outstanding projects, I’ve spent the last several years developing a battery I can fall back upon. A novel (Hungry Rats), short stories (including The Silurians), and plays (including Canaryville Blues). I’m still working onthese, but part of this battery is that I can work on such writing for a few hours a week and continue to submit it while dividing the rest of my attention between two projects in which I’m investing the greatest hopes for my career. They aren’t strangers. They are Urbantasm, a novel I drafted when I was seventeen and eighteen, and the Gothic Funk Nation.
I’m getting ready to swim in these deep waters again, and I’m looking for some advice as I do so. Next week I will write about Urbantasm and follow up with Gothic Funk.
I will be very interested to hear what you think.
