Demiurgic

I thought I’d spend most of this post talking about writing. The first drafts of Don’t Give Up The Day Job are done and dusted. Some of them are [awesome], some of them are [good], some of them [need work], some of them are [terrible] and there is one I am [embarrassed to have my name on]. As usual, they key is in the title. And now the onus is not on me. At least not for another week or two. It’s given me a lot of time to chill out. I have hammered RIFT, though I still haven’t reached top level. Though this is mostly because I am enjoying the view as the levels and zones race by. I have finished Enslaved & Fable III and been disappointed by Riddick: Dark Athena & Dead Space 2. I have almost caught up with Supernatural. I have generally lazed about. There’ just one problem, though:

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So I have totally moved to a whole other part of the country, with a completely new social dynamic to my life. Take from that what you will. It honestly feels like I’m living someone else’s life right now. Almost everything around me has changed. Luckily I’m an optimist so I’m thinking of it as a fresh start and attempting to move forward with my life. However the last few days have been dragging me back on a trip down nostalgia lane.

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It’s always nice when the weather matches your mood, isn’t it? Like this morning for example. After a fairly lousy weekend I wake up on Monday morning with a typical case of Monday morning blues to find that it’s cold, wet, horrible and I have a hole in the bottom of my shoe. As I stood in a puddle waiting for my lift and wondered why my foot was getting very cold and very wet I took a long drag from my cigarette, looked up at the incoming rain and thought “Ah, it must be Monday.”

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I’m reading on various news sites that David Cameron has announced a review of UK Copyright Laws to “make them fit for the Internet age.” What baffles me about this is that on the face of it this announcement seems progressive, which is baffling as it is coming from the ConDem government. Then I realised how much money could be made from a change to a more U.S.-style approach to “fair usage” laws.

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Return of the blog! That’s all I am going to say about the long absence, the second of which has occurred in the short time since I started recording my thoughts again. It happened, it had perfectly valid reasons and now I am moving on from it and back to a (hopefully) daily schedule of rambling like a lunatic.

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I had a plan for episode 8, I really did. Last night I managed to write a good ending for episode 7 and even a good beginning for episode 8, but now that I’m at the meat and bones of the episode, I don’t know how to not make it suck. Everything I have thought of so far just seems exceptionally lame. Unfortunately that’s what happens with big concept episodes and it may take a long time to get to 30 pages, a lot longer than I would like. A good(?) analogy would be someone trying to bake a cake. They know what ingredients they need, they have them all in front of them, but they can’t figure out how to put them together to make a great cake.

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As you may or my not have read at my Facebook page or in another blog, my laptop died shortly after I went on holiday to Newcastle. It was quite a traumatic time for me as the best I could manage was surfing the ‘net at work (which was restricting, by and large thanks to a prohibitive block on anything interesting) or on my phone, which was useful for keeping tabs on Joystq, io9, Facebook and my e-mail. And pretty much nothing else at all. I’ve had my laptop back for a week or so now but catching up on everything has taken so much time I haven’t really had time to blog anything substantial. So I thought rather than write any kind of crappy micro posts I would wait until I could post something awesome. Or, you know, at least something long.

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I’ve never really been any good at beginnings, which as a writer is a terrible affliction. Once I get going I’m usually unstoppable (ask my long suffering fiancée). But beginnings have always stumped me, to the point where a lot of projects that I have attempted to begin haven’t begun because I haven’t figured out how to begin them.

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