{"id":955,"date":"2011-05-06T01:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T05:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=955"},"modified":"2011-05-06T01:42:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T05:42:47","slug":"stories-and-code-and-stuff-and-whatever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"Stories and code and stuff and whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hit a snag in my in-progress short story Through a Flame of Blue and Green<\/em>. I realized one of my scenes is purely expositional. The information given in the scene is important for the story, but there’s no action, at least no action that’s important to the story. My natural response to this snag is to just stop writing the story until I can figure out a way to make the scene work. “But wait,” I say to myself, “just skip the scene! Come back to it later!” Of course! Why didn’t I think of that? “You just did!” I say to myself. Oh yeah! Both I and me are the same! So I’ll do that… later.<\/p>\n

I’m still working on my Android melody generator program as well, but learning to program Android interfaces is boooooooooring, so progress is slow. However, a friend of mine recently gave me some extremely helpful feedback on the screenplay I wrote last year, The Melody Box<\/em>, so I’ve been thinking about sending out another round of query letters, this time mentioning that a potential film could have the tie-in of software that does what the melody box in the screenplay does: generate melodies. Seems like both products would boost interest in each other. Not sure if that will truly interest anyone, but it’s worth a try, yes? Then I’ll get back to trying to learn how to program Android interfaces.<\/p>\n

Other than that, I’ve been endlessly tweaking my outlines for Atarius Destroy This World<\/em>. There are some tricky little issues here and there. But I’ll probably start writing on Saturday or next week. I’m kind of scared to start. I’ll have to keep saying to myself: “It’s just a rough draft. It’s allowed to be awful. Just get something down.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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