Yesterday was, that is. (Today bids fair to be nothing but work, work, work to finish my book on Sea Mammals.)<\/p>\n
Yesterday I had lunch with a friend whom I hadn’t seen for a while. She’s a writer (plays and short fiction) and was curious about my experiences at the Taos workshop. During our conversation, I mentioned an idea for a new book–or at least a premise that might be nurtured into an idea–that I’ve been mulling for the past few weeks.<\/p>\n
Now, I’m not by any means going to abandon my large and messy time-travel trilogy, but I’ve been thinking about writing a shorter, simpler, stand-alone novel to put some of the plotting insights from Taos into immediate practice. And I’d outline this one first, rather than writing a flabby, unstructured, overlong novel and retrostructuring it. Anyway, I mentioned this germ of an idea to my friend. Just now she called me about an article she’s reading that is directly connected with the premise; it could offer some good plot possibilities. So I have a starting point: Get article. Read article. See what happens.<\/p>\n
In an embarrassment of riches, I had another idea, or set of interconnected ideas, completely unexpectedly, while I was washing my hands in the evening. These ideas were for BS<\/i>, the first time-travel novel. They concerned some fairly sweeping changes that would make that book a lot stranger, but better. They would also go a long way to solving a couple of its biggest problems. I immediately scribbled them down on my whiteboard, happy to have experienced my first out-of-the-blue breakthrough in a while. (Thanks, subconscious mind!)<\/p>\n
And then we watched Children of Men.<\/em> But even that couldn’t buzzkill my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday was, that is. (Today bids fair to be nothing but work, work, work to finish my book on Sea Mammals.) Yesterday I had lunch with a friend whom I hadn’t seen for a while. She’s a writer (plays and short fiction) and was curious about my experiences at the Taos workshop. During our conversation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}