tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54160790723548928582012-02-03T09:06:27.193ZHi, my name is Richard. By day I program websites. By night I write disturbing scientific romances. When I eat a Banana...Richard Colinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10169066483830929964noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416079072354892858.post-70219764163009186412009-10-03T22:36:00.001+01:002009-10-03T22:38:44.293+01:00

There are a couple of little details I need to drag out of myself. Then, it will be done.

Richard Colinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10169066483830929964noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416079072354892858.post-2039794306181939962009-09-27T21:20:00.003+01:002009-09-27T21:25:50.284+01:00

Okay, it's still not finished. But I have made a lot of progress. I feel like I am, as they say, over the hump.

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Tomorrow I am not going to let myself go outside until I have a draft I'm happy to let other people read.

Richard Colinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10169066483830929964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416079072354892858.post-38666326127356034222009-09-22T19:48:00.003+01:002009-09-22T20:03:50.331+01:00

I see it has been over a year since the previous post. I do hope no-one was checking back. Oh well, in case I'm malingering in a dark corner of someone's feed reader I should give a bit of an update...I'm still writing, mostly hammering away at the same themes as before. I need to make myself edit stories until I am (almost) happy with them and then submit them to publishers. It's obvious, I

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No posts for a while. I was pretty exhausted so I had to keep myself away from computer screens as much as possible for a week or so and rest my poor little mind.But now I'm back; rested and refreshed. I've finished the first draft of my telepathy story and I've started my depression story. I'm still playing around with novel ideas but still not really committed (or sure any of my ideas could

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I was reading this conversation on one of Adam Roberts' blogs. It inspired a number of insights into depression and had me struggling to compose a comment expressing them.Specifically, I was thinking about a sense of self and how it relates to depression. (I wish they'd called it a model of self. I would have understood so much sooner.) That made me speculate about a future piece of software that

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So, this Sunday I submitted Stackspace, the story I read out at Lumb bank, to Strange Horizons. I know I said I'd submit three stories at once but it felt like the right thing to do so I did it. (It's also much easier to submit fiction through a web form than bother with some arcane system involving sticking pieces of paper together and handing them to a network of angry men in strange livery.

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Robot Blood Orgy is finally finished! I have even decided I like the title. I will be looking for readers soon and then submitting it to a magazine.I will start working on another one of my in progress stories tomorrow. I still haven't decided which one. At the moment I am leaning towards the story I read out on the Friday night at Lumb Bank.I have decided to get three stories ready for

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Ok, I give up! I'm going to be editing this damn story until in twenty years time it is a three million world nonology and absolutely perfect.

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Not much progress in the last couple of days. Did some editing of "Robot Blood Orgy" this evening. Hopefully I will finish it over the weekend.

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Tonight I started drafting a story I'd started a few times before but never really got going with. I think I now have a narrative that works and shows most things I'd like to show. Now all I need to do is finish it...I decided to take a break from "Robot Blood Orgy" for a day or so as a couple of the ideas need to develop a little further and I want to get a bit of distance before I review the

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Still making reasonable progress. Just one more draft and then we're onto final polishing and then it'll be ready for other people to read. I still don't have a title. "Robot Blood Orgy" is a good title but for a different story. "The Bateman Virus" seems a bit weak.

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Yesterday I wrote about finding writing very draining. Today I wrote for an hour without this problem.I think that what I was doing wrong was trying to keep everything about the story I was writing in my head at the same time - straining to keep everything in focus at once. In a way this is possible but it takes a lot of energy and is not really necessary. Today I refused to let myself enter that

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The problem: I'm finding writing an exceptionally draining process. When I sit down to write, I feel my power levels declining at an alarming rate. I suspect this is because I am doing it wrong. My theory is that I'm using too many parts of my brain at the same time. Tomorrow, I will sit down to write and be mindful of this - try to write without constant mental strain.

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Today I made very slow progress rewriting my "Robot blood orgy" story. (One of the things that needs rewriting is the title.) Most of the problems have been resolved. I think I may try to speed the process up a little tomorrow by writing as much of it as I can in fifteen minutes. That kind of challenge sometimes gets my adrenaline up and my fingers moving.

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