Matthew S. Rotundo's Pixeltown

I’m in dream time with a new project–always a strange state of mind.  Hard to tell how much actual progress I’ve made.  It’s so easy to fool yourself into believing you’re working.  I mean, even if you’re just goofing off, you can tell yourself, "Hey, back off, man.  I’m thinking."

I can say at least this much with confidence:  I have not been able to talk myself out of this one.  Try as I might to shoot holes in the idea, it stubbornly persists in being bulletproof.  (Well, either that, or my aim is awful–which, you know, isn’t beyond the realm of possibility.) 

I guess I’ll have to write it.

Toward that end, I’ve been making notes.  I have a pretty fair idea who my main character is and how he operates.  I think I found my antagonist yesterday.  And someone out there in cyberspace is about to be hit up as a subject matter expert.  It could be any one of you.  Be afraid.

Oddly, I’m still not sure if this is a short story, a novel, or something in between.  I guess I should figure that out.  Workin’ on it . . .

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I’m out.

A few days late with this, owing to my travels.  I’ll be brief.

Back from Dragon*Con.  In a nutshell:

1.  Met friends old and new. 

2.  Had good times. 

3.  Spent an unconscionable amount of time in line. 

4.  Got delayed by mechanical difficulties.

More later, if I get the chance.

On the writing front, I am simultaneously intrigued by a fresh inspiration, and assailed by doubts about it.  There are times when this seems like a genuinely cool and exciting idea.  Then there are times when I’m convinced that I’m not the writer for this story, that I’m being led astray.

But, as I’ve mentioned previously, I’m sick of not producing anything.  So I’m pursuing this thing to see where it goes.  It might be a short story, or a series of them, or something longer.  If I’m going astray, so be it.  Let pages be filled, even if it’s crap!

Maybe that should be my new motto.

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