Job – reliable internet = spotty posting

Sorry for the general lack of posts these past few days.  I haven’t fallen off the face of the Earth (yet), I’m just working full time and living in a place that doesn’t have reliable internet.  Someone in the complex tried to set up a wireless router, and now the internet is down.  For some reason, the broadweave guys haven’t fixed it yet.

Student housing in Provo sux.

Anyways, here’s what’s going on in my life.  I found a temporary full-time job working in a warehouse.  They let me listen to my headphones while I work, so I’ve been catching up on a lot of podcasts and old recordings from cons and English 318.  It’s actually kind of awesome.  Definitely better than the call center.

I’m in the midst of finishing the research for the “class that wouldn’t die” article.  Basically, I have about half a dozen more interviews to do, then write up the rough draft.  I’m having lots of fun meeting all these awesome people and putting this article together.

But between work and the article, I’m finding it much harder to keep up with my writing.  I’m still producing about 2k consistently, but that’s not quite enough to have Mercenary Savior finished by World Fantasy.  Looks like I’ll have to sprint on the weekends.

I’m not too worried about it at this point, though.  The revision is going great–in fact, I might post a few excerpts.  I know the story’s solid, and the characters are a joy–especially Tamu, the slutty, self-centered concubine that becomes something of a mentor for Stella (to her horror, of course).

The Hameji are also quite interesting; one of my goals in this revision is to portray the rationale for their behavior as clearly as I possibly can.  Towards that end, I have a list of points about their culture that I want to get across in the narrative, and I’m keeping track of which scenes convey which points.  The goal is to have at least three scenes for each point, which will involve some substantial revision.  But if it works, the Hameji will go from horrific, brutal antagonists in the beginning to sympathetic if still brutal by the end–kind of like George R. R. Martin’s stuff.

Speaking of George R. R. Martin, I’m reading A GAME OF THRONES right now and I’m absolutely loving it!  I wish I had the time to sit down and read this book for hours.  Alas, the only way I can do that is to give up writing, and I can’t do that.  Weekends, though–better wait for the weekend.

Anyway, that’s what’s going on.  I’d better go to bed now, before I jinx myself tomorrow morning.  Or maybe I already have?  Blarg.  Night.