Good news (after a fashion)
Mar. 15th, 2005 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularTemp agency called up, and it looks like I've got administrative/legal work starting tomorrow, running for an indeterminate amount of time.
I'm wondering if it's a sign of the times that I consider it a pleasant surprise that I got one day's warning on the posting.
In any event, hopefully this will help break me out of the current anxiety/despair/depression vicious cycle.
Fic news: the PotC doodad is slowly beginning to take shape. Still working on Chapter One, bogged down because I've actually been doing quite a bit of world-building, sort of spinning out my own vision of the future Earth and environs, circa 2372. Which is also fun, because it's set in a world I've been trying to put together for a very long time.
It's also building a framework for The Big Honking Epic Science Fiction Story I've Been Trying to Write Since I Was Ten Years Old. (With several pauses to tear down and rebuild the premise.) Gotta be careful, though - thanks to a chance comment by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neonhummingbird, I got hooked on the Honor Harrington series and now have to be careful to be distinct from something that I've been reading a lot recently.
Except for one thing. The use of the term "impeller" for a non-Newtonian engine. I've been using that term since before I read the first HH book, so I'm keeping it. Different effect anyway.
With luck, job = energy = motivation to write.
Close entry.
I'm wondering if it's a sign of the times that I consider it a pleasant surprise that I got one day's warning on the posting.
In any event, hopefully this will help break me out of the current anxiety/despair/depression vicious cycle.
Fic news: the PotC doodad is slowly beginning to take shape. Still working on Chapter One, bogged down because I've actually been doing quite a bit of world-building, sort of spinning out my own vision of the future Earth and environs, circa 2372. Which is also fun, because it's set in a world I've been trying to put together for a very long time.
It's also building a framework for The Big Honking Epic Science Fiction Story I've Been Trying to Write Since I Was Ten Years Old. (With several pauses to tear down and rebuild the premise.) Gotta be careful, though - thanks to a chance comment by
neonhummingbird, I got hooked on the Honor Harrington series and now have to be careful to be distinct from something that I've been reading a lot recently.Except for one thing. The use of the term "impeller" for a non-Newtonian engine. I've been using that term since before I read the first HH book, so I'm keeping it. Different effect anyway.
With luck, job = energy = motivation to write.
Close entry.
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Date: 2005-03-15 07:31 pm (UTC)I've kinda got the same problem as you re: trying not to be derivative. I've picked up so many things from novels I've read and TV shows I've watched that it's next to impossible for me not to use some of them. Joss may be my undoing.
Misc. comment from Perri's Dad
Date: 2005-03-16 05:03 pm (UTC)The trick with 'Space Opera' isn't so much to come up with outstandingly new plots (they've all been done since Doc Smith); but, to present a good story with interesting characters in a consistent universe.
By the way I LIKE a well done Space Opera and always have.