AvantBlog

Life’s been slow lately, except for a recent trip to the ER when Margie had food poisoning last week (but she seems to have had a very speedy recovery, all things considered).

While I haven’t been writing every day, I’ve been writing more than I did last year, which was closer to never. I’ve found that if I spend my 30 minute commute home with my Pilot G2 and my Moleskine, I can get a push a scene further along and usually get to an interesting place to stop. It’s kinda like reading an old serialized story, since I’m writing it in these 30 minute bursts, but it’s been fun so far. The writing sucks, but I’m figuring out what the heck this story’s all about anyway. I don’t really want to talk about it until I have something close to a second draft, though, so I’ll say no more for now.

Oh, and I’ve been playing X-Files: Resist or Serve on my PS2, which is very fun once you get used to the camera angles changing on you when you run around the 3D environment. The game really does play out like a series of TV episodes, and there’s parallel story lines with Mulder and Scully so you get to see what happens whenever they split up to investigate different things. Oh, and the music is spot on; very, very atmospheric and creepy.