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How Do You Cure Writers Block

You figure out what is causing it.

Well, it turned out in my case to be a sudden realization that I was trying to plot something that the storyline had no background for.   To put the background information in the book would have created what David Weber sneers at as an “Infodump”  and those get boring fast.

Then it dawned on me that I had started “Tales of the Interregnum” for a reason and I had let that slip.

This is the first of the missing tales that will fill in the info I need to plot the rest of the second book.  There will be several more hopefully in rapid order as the BLOCK has broken!

Thus “Somebody’s Got to Do It”

We Must Be Doing Something

The Old One and I do not have much going on with the new Never So Few Book, least not enough to publish or post about yet, so I though I would throw in a scene from chapter five of A Very Blue Moon. Now in order to understand what is happening you will need to go over to the FutureVerse and read it all from the start. — What are you waiting for?

(A Part of Chapter Five of AVBM)
“You see, I was this time travel agent in a 20’s speakeasy, and there was this gorilla chained in the corner. I took care of what I came for, and when I got home 80 years later — in the future I mean, it was chained in the kitchen talking to my sisters and waiting to play cards. Now naturally I thought a gorilla chained in the kitchen was a bit strange and . . .”

“You don’t have any sisters Yuri, least not any in your record file. And time travel can’t work so why even bother dreaming about it?” Audie shook her head and acted as if she just wanted Yuri to go away.

“Sure I got sisters, three of them! I lied when I joined up. Doesn’t everyone? Any way It was gnawing at the chain and one of my sisters said that it could never bite through it and that was that. I said maybe it could with a soft enough chain. So then I leave the room for a minute and when I get back sure enough it did.”

“Stop it Yuri or I’ll call a medic!”
“Just let me finish Audie and you will get my point Ok?”
“Go ahead,” Audie said muting the volume.

“So it asks me for the 500 dollars we had bet. I say it was my sister said it was impossible not me.”

“Ok,” the Tyrannosaurus says disappointedly. You see the Gorilla became a different animal, and he picks up his cards as my opponent, then asks, “What are the stakes?”

“I say we are playing for points only. Don’t ya get it Audie? . . . Audie?”

Back to Work

Chapter 4 of A Very Blue Moon went up today at the FutureVerse. The next part of the agenda is more work on Devil in the Mirror. Oldiewan has part of that book’s second chapter ready for me to add a little to and I need to start on the third chapter of the book which is mostly my responsibility.

The FutureVerse just turned two and Never so Few has a birthday coming up. It all flies by so fast.

Apologies

Explanation over here.   I try not to use that kind of language over here!

OK, OK!  Only when I have good reason!

Blue Days

There is the third chapter of A Very Blue Moon posted at the FutureVerse.

We will get some new content here but hard to say when. In the meantime I keep working on the other story.

Bluer Than Blue

There is a New Chapter of the Cardoman book ‘AVery Blue Moon’, posted today over at the FutureVerse. Take a look and examine the site. And feel free to comment either here or there. That’s why we leave them open!

Why I Have Been Quiet

I put the full explanation up over here .  In short it is the PCP and it may end this very day!

A New Link of the Week

I haven’t done one of these for a while but now is the time. I saw this at the Volokh Conspiracy and it fit right in with the way I feel about robots and high tech stuff.

After seeing the cartoon I looked at the website xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe. and looked at some of the other drawings. Very, Very, good. I think I must link to this place on our side bar.

Here is the comic that caught my eye:
Mars or bust

Look around there is a lot to see.

A few years ago I wrote something for Colony Achibah that had a similar sense of loss. It never got posted on Alchibah but I did put it up at the FutureVerse. On the site there I have it posted there as — An Alchibah Epilogue. I still come close to tears each time I read that story.

The Devil in the Mirror

The first chapter of the new Never So Few book is posted. We call it The Devil in the Mirror.

Take a look by clicking above or navigating from the sidebar. The Old Dog went over it last night and I finished it up this morning. Now it needs some online editing to catch the things I never see until they stare at me from a web page.

I have been working on this for four hours and time for a brew. Then it’s back to work in the FutureVerse. First a link to the chapter here and then chapter 2 of “A Very Blue Moon.”

This chapter was my responsibility, the next is the Dog’s so timing is up in the air but three or four weeks is my guess. Anyway it’s a whole new ballgame.

And Where is the Old Fart Anyway

As Wes said I do have the first part of Chapter One in hand, late Saturday evening. The last few days have been a real joy!

Wednesday afternoon I got another of those bombshell projects that I cannot detail here but can describe in magnitude. It would normally be about a 2 month development test and implement cycle.

I got 2 WEEKS due to picking this up from a failed project that is of course way behind. This means a lot of my “home” time is going into software testing and general kludge engineering. Then Momma Nature decided to get into the game!

Thursday night we got hit with the worst winter storm on record since before Arizona was even a freaking State. The power was off for 60% of the entire city for over four hours and was surging up and down for the rest. That meant one lost night of work and was the reason the site was down that night.

That brings us to Friday and Saturday! Have I ever mentioned IDIOTS who will not buy UPS systems for their core computer systems? Why I think I have on many occasions!

Every freaking IDIOT who had not listened to me had system damage from Thursday night. So I spent Friday and Saturday fixing problems that I had in no way caused.

Oh well, it pays the bills!