always moving forward

good morning friends.

so i'm stuck on where to go with this short story. i have a mind to keep it going, try to make it full length, by combining it with two other stories i have going. All of these were supposed to be included in a collection of shorts, but now i'm tempted to put them together into one solid piece. i actually lost sleep last night, trying to decide what to do.

i'm going to sit on it for a day or two, and in the meantime, revisit an old manuscript that has been sitting on a shelf for almost ten years. i "finished" the first draft soon after moving to colorado, and then lost all faith in the project after a failed attempt to turn it into what i thought would have been a bad-ass graphic novel. this one is more of a humorous spy tale, centering around a comic book store. yes, you read that right. my plan is to read over it, see if anything jumps out at me. i don't even have files for it anymore, just this pile of papers that was stuffed into an envelope.

in other news, i did ten sit-ups yesterday while playing Magic on the xbox. i think i can do twenty this time...

new, fresh, exciting.

so i've got this new idea. forgive me if i don't say too much, but i don't want to give too much away.

i say it is a new idea, but really it is an old idea that has been kicking around for some time, finally realized on paper/monitor.

i've had a few martinis at this point, so fo4rgive any pauses or misspellings that may occur.

had a long chat with an old friend, andy to those of you who know him, and he is on board. i will be contacting others in the next few days for more input, ideas, hopefully leading to more collaboration.

the book/manuscript is steady and on track. the game is on hold indefinitely, but this new idea hinges around that, so it is technically still active...

imagine a world where magic never really died but science progressed. imagine those two different schools met, and the practitioners didn't favor each other. imagine they met on the battlefield, and the fate of the world hinged on the outcome.

that is the new idea.

until something changes. i remain grim.