Over 50k words, he said! Just another 8-10k to finish the book, he said!
Annnnd then, Dorina showed up. To quote from Band of Brothers: “…well, hello 2nd Armored!”
Look, it’s NOT exposition and I AM NOT LECTURING! I can prove it, below the fold! These people just keep showing up… this just keeps happening…!
Seriously: I need to start killing everyone. No! I mean it! Don’t you dare click on Continue reading “Baton”
Just over another 10k words this weekend! As I said to a friend of mine, I feel like a wrung-out dish rag. But, once I’d the key – the sight – from late Friday, it was so easy! Part of my last post was just that: Chris and Cat closing the gap between them. What I wrote since then was the 3+1 times they made love (slightly different than having sex), although I only covered #1 and #+1 in detail. That, plus another one of Chris’ recall-dreams of his time at Neuroi Corporation, this time, talking with his kid sister, Maya, made for a fantastic weekend!
Anton is sleeping with Chris & Cat’s next door neighbor; that’s complicated! And he’ll be giving them a tour of the northern ‘no-go’ zones around Camp Pendleton. The civilians of San Diego think the Mexican Army killed about 100k coming south from the 19MM in the LA Basin. Truth is hard, sometimes.
After what he sees, it finally occurs to Chris to reach out to experts beyond him: even machines suffer from the “if I’m good at this, I’m good at everything!” mental illness. The moment he does, he’s going to realize just what he’s overlooked, and how close he and his beloved are to an horrible, violent death.
This is SO COOL!
PS It was pointed out to me by someone in RealLife that my ‘below the folds’ are all banal (my word, not theirs), not ‘the good stuff!’ Well, duh! I welcome everyone into the world I’m making, but this is work, and I want to be paid for it. ‘Defiant’ was, and is, for free. Intellectual property is worth at least, if not more, than physical property. Example: a water pump is worth money; learning how to make a water pump, one or two orders of magnitude more. To continue the analogy, my snippets, in and of themselves, are slightly entertaining. I hope, once complete and edited, y’all think that they plus the other 45k words are worth US$7.
Thank you so much for reading!
Wow. Never killed a guy during a blowjob. The guy, not me. Well, I was doing the killing… it was Maya…. Never mind; just never mind. Obviously I shan’t be having my teenage daughters proofing that part.
Maya’s at Vancouver International Airport, waiting for one of the rare flights to San Diego. Time to flick back to Chris and Cat (and Anton, too, I guess). Need a double-helping of Relationship Development before a certain someone’s plane touches down. As I learned from “Defiant,” every time I start writing romance, a battle breaks out; so, I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but I know it will.
Below the fold is Maya taking leave of the acquaintances she made on the freighter, Jodhpur, as it crossed the Pacific. Machine Civilization: it’s one, big, dysfunctional family!
“Barring any unforeseen RealLife consequences – as such happened last November– I’m feeling very good about this project.” He said in hubris, in the post just below this one.
Our oldest dog had a nasty nosebleed last Tuesday. Our local vet said to give him some diphenhydramine. That worked for a week. It was back on Monday; bad enough I’d to take him into Columbus to MedVet. They did a CT and rhinoscopy; he has a tumor in his right nasal cavity. We’ll find out by Monday if it’s malignant or not.*
Note to all writers out there: never, EVER, say nor write what I did in that sentence on top of this post. Don’t.
*It would almost be better if malignant, as it would be easier to treat with radiation than with surgery.
“… no such thing as; part X.”
Ran into this while at Spec’s flagship store on Smith Street, Houston. Of course I bought it. And no: unless an emergency*, I’m not drinking it.
*Out of other booze.
The title quotes my character Fausta quoting Shinobu Oshino. It’s just an odd laugh. It’s the odd laugh I just had as I was making myself older about quantum computing, a subject I understand as well as I do women. The laugh came when I got to the end of the wiki and hit this line:
“It has been speculated that theories of quantum gravity, such as M-theory or loop quantum gravity, may allow even faster computers to be built. Currently, defining computation in such theories is an open problem due to the problem of time, i.e., there currently exists no obvious way to describe what it means for an observer to submit input to a computer and later receive output.[89]”
So, to my feeble mind, the “problem of time” is that between observer-computer-observer. How to get all those Schrodinger’s cat scratches off of your face, essentially. I laughed when I realized I’d solved the problem – from a story standpoint – prior to even knowing a problem was there. And if that’s not quantum computing, I don’t know what is.
Oh, the solution? Make the observer and the computer the same.
Episode 13 seen; will post tomorrow! Cheerio!
Although for us, given all that’s going on, this comes closer to expressing how we feel about the season:
Nonetheless, we still count ourselves as blessed. Off now to visit my wife in the hospital. Cheers!
