Matthew S. Rotundo's Pixeltown

So that little side project I mentioned last week?  Took longer than I thought it would.  Shocker, I know.

But it’s done.  And here’s a little Magic Meter to mark the moment:

Hey, cut me a little slack here.  It was an essay, for one thing—not my strong suit.  And a humorous essay, at that.  Dying is easy; comedy is hard, you know?  Plus, I was trying to squeeze two disparate bits into one piece without making either one feel forced.  That took some doing.  I must have started the damned thing half a dozen times before I figured it out.

So you see, I really was working.

Not buying it, eh?  Yeah, me neither.

That’s all right.  I’m quite glad to have it off my plate, so that I can hit the rewrite of “The Winter Palace.”  And after that . . . well, if recent history has taught me anything, it’s that I shouldn’t get ahead of myself.  So I won’t.

See?  I can learn.

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Rock on.

Remember Rewrite Project #1?  The one I thought I had finished a couple of weeks ago?  Well, it turned up in my inbox again, like a bad penny.  More science issues, as it happens.  My editor thought they could be “easily fixed.”

Yeah.  He’s a funny guy.

What followed was a few days’ worth of scrabbling through the Internet, searching for a reasonably plausible propulsion system for a starship, while also adjusting the time dilation effects I had referred to in the story, to properly account for acceleration and deceleration.

Easily fixed, he said.

A few days later, my brain hurting from the strain of being expanded, I selected my new propulsion system and made the necessary changes to the text.  As before, the revisions amounted to just a few sentences, stuff the casual reader will likely never even notice. But that’s not really the point, is it?

Truly, for all my whining, I now have a better story, a renewed appreciation for the resources the Internet puts at my disposal, and an aching brain.

Next up, a brief foray into a side job, then back to Rewrite Project #2, “The Winter Palace.”

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I’m out.

(Easily fixed. Geez.)