Mediasphere: Draft Zero
4:32 AM. Done.All this time, I've known what the final line of the book would be.But I just came up with a new one.
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About two months ago, I posted, "Chapter 4 will never ever ever ever ever ever ever end."Tonight I finished it.The last sequence I had to go back to fix was a scene between two Mediasphere denizens,...
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Finished two out of the three epilogue scenes, while Kate's finishing the final actual chapter. I'm going to go back and spackle together the not-quite-finished scenes at the end of Ch 4 before I write...
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Rewatching Blake's 7 for the first time in a couple months. We'd been putting off watching "Deathwatch" because we didn't want to shrivel with embarrassment at our inferiority. Now that I'm up to the...
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Right. The last scenes left in Ch 10 are Kate's to tidy up. On to the grand finale! *grinds ever onward*
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Ever seen the Goodies episode with the Philharmonic Glee Club Rock'n'Roll Band, where our (erm) heroes can't agree on what style to play in, and so we end up with a rock version of "Land Of Hope And...
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Okay, so I've just finished Chapter 8, and Kate's a gnat's breadth away from finishing Chapter 9. That leaves two chapters and the epilogue to wrap up.You'd think it'd be getting simpler by this point!...
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Currently in the middle of writing a chapter which largely consists of scenes between characters named Vila, Vargo, and Vidge. I'm in trouble now...
View ArticleMediasphere: the Dark Night of the Soul
I'm into Chapter 7, writing one of the setpiece scenes which was one of the first ideas I had for the book -- in fact it even came from an earlier pitch for a different book. I've been looking forward...
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*puts on Cowboy Junkies'"Dark Hole Again"*And these were supposed to be the easier weeks of the software development for my day job. Our weekend getaway a week and a half ago is already a distant...
View ArticleNew Who: Ten Years On
One, then two brilliant articles to share.Here are my favorite moments, just from those first dizzying weeks of the revival...Ten years and a couple of weeks ago, having catastrophically misjudged...
View ArticleLet's Rewrite Hitler! Or, Series 6 Re-Revisited
Okay, after a tangential discussion on Gallifrey Base, I've had people ask me to pull together my thoughts about how I would have liked to see the last half of Doctor Who's series 6 play out. Back in...
View ArticleOn refugees
Well, I went off on one. Below are my thoughts responding to a couple of people in a college friend's Facebook entry, who were knee-jerking about Syrian refugees. Slightly edited for coherence.For...
View ArticleHomicide And Old Lace
Just rewatched an episode of "The Avengers" -- the proper Avengers, John Steed and company, none of this Marvel gubbins -- which I haven't seen in nearly thirty years: "Homicide And Old Lace". Good...
View ArticleLetters to Mom, volume 1
Hello Mom (and friends) --I've been trying for days to write and post an essay about why we, as Jews, have a moral imperative to support bringing in Syrian refugees. It all hinges around the Four...
View ArticleWhy it matters why it happened
Well, it's official. The White House has confirmed to CNN that they deliberately excluded any mention of Jews from their statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day because they didn't want to privilege...
View Article"Hell Bent" Revisited
Well, it’s only taken me two solid years of hindsight, but I think I’ve finally figured out a way to make Hell Bent work a lot better!At the end of Doctor Who series 9, I adored Heaven Sent, but...
View ArticleWhat I Want
In the midst of this latest attempt to persuade Americans to do nothing about their gun problem, I was struck by someone asking:“Explain exactly HOW you intend to get America's numerous owners of guns...
View ArticleFrankie Thomas on Tom Corbett
Reconstructed here for future reference: Frankie Thomas' article about starring in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet from Starlog magazine issue 39.Tom Corbett Remembers By FRANKIE (TOM CORBETT) THOMAS...
View ArticleTwice Upon A Time: The Novel
For the third time in my life, Paul Cornell has written exactly the words I needed to read.The first time was early in 1992, when the blazing hot prose of Timewyrm: Revelation kept me awake — sitting...
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