Bleeding Fiction

First, this web comic link from Gabe: Dr. Devious vs. Lincoln High. Because really, the world doesn't have enough web comics. Ok, well, it does. But it doesn't have enough web comics about former evil overlords who're now teaching high school as their rehabilitation. Plus the strip just started two weeks ago, which makes reading their archives a cakewalk. Plus they have a cool site design.

Second, the obligatory comment on my blog and the nature of blogging: It seems like there's some mystic imperitive in blog-land to get existential about your blog - to comment on how infrequently you're posting to it and promise to post more. In lieu, I suppose, of anything else to say. I've been posting a lot. I pay for the site, so I figure I should, right?

My posts lately have been links to and slight commentary on other things because, well, that's easy. Plus some of these things are just odd. I'd like to do more flash fiction, like the sort I posted here and here, the sort that Rebecca Borgstrom does every day on Hitherby Dragons, but that's not easy. I don't have the time while I'm at work, and if I'm writing at home, well, mostly I have serious projects to work on then.

But there's time some days and flash fiction is fun... Well, maybe twice a week, then. Wednesdays and Sundays, let's say. I can spare the idle hours before and after Smallville and West Wing on Wednesdays and the random times on the weekends. Good.

In other news, I meant to post something about it being Valentine's Day on Saturday, but I was busy and didn't have much to say in any case. Can't even call the day "Black Saturday" or whatever this year. I'm totally neutral on it. Which is a nice change of pace.

Last, the writing: I'm 6 chapters and 80 words into the second draft of Fire and Jade and that's all new material. This shows both that the second draft is going much, much slower than I wanted it to and that I had no idea what story I was writing when I did the first draft. At this point I've abandoned all sense of an estimated completion time and will simply say "as soon as I can finish." Tonight I tackle chapter 7.