Hello, all. Thought I'd enter a thread in this realm of keeping each other honest. Anything to fight off dreaded procrastination.
A while back, I wrote Pseudopod 121: "Blood, Snow, and Sparrows".
This is what I'm up to lately...
Putting Words in Conan's MouthThese days, I'm in Oslo, Norway, writing dialogue for the
Age of Conan MMO computer game.
A little over a year ago, I got it in my head that video game companies make money...maybe one of them would pay me to write. So I looked up "Video Game Companies" on Wikipedia, and spent the next two weeks going over a hundred or more websites, bookmarking them in priority of what looked promising. And then I sent out a dozen or two applications and sets of writing samples. Funcom contacted me, and a bit on a whim, I hopped from Chicago to Norway and here I am 8 months into a 1 year contract (and a little over a month away from the release of the game expansion I'm working on). It's been a little weird to up and leave everything, but exciting to see more of the world, and nice to get payed fairly well to write every day (if I wasn't living in the most expensive city on earth, I'd really be swingin').
It's a good gig, but I want to get going again on my own projects...
Troubled SupermanYesterday, I submitted a 249 word story to a Micro-Fiction Contest for troubled/troubling supermen(women)
http://hilobrow.com/2010/01/26/hilo-micro-fiction-contest/. You can see it towards the bottom of that page. It's not listed with a title, but if it had one, it would be "Parasomnia".
PoemLast week, I submitted a poem titled "The Cadaver and the Corbie" to
Eureka Literary Magazine. Eureka College is my alma mater, and they were asking for alumni submissions, so no huge accomplishment if it gets printed there, but it did make me get off my butt and revise a poem (and I'm happy to participate).
More DreadI've got a story, "The Mulligan", that started as poetic prose...then I tried to morph it into a narrative poem, submitted it, and had it rejected (the editors said it sounded too much like a prose story cut into stanzas...but thought it would definitely find a home as prose). I'll take that as a sign and head back into the laboratory to saw it up and stitch it back into a short story. I think I'll do that this weekend, get some opinions on it, polish it, and submit it somewhere before the month is out--not sure where yet, but once it finds a print home, I'd like to submit it to Podcastle. It's sort of a modern twist on Arthurian lore...but mostly it's a creepy story about a boy and his mother.
White WolfI'm also working on my very long overdue novel for White Wolf Publishing. I need to get to bed...but I'll post more on this later.