Okay, I think I'll start writing in here again. Had a big break, transitioning from one mode of existence to another as it were.
Smooth-on, my silicon supplier of choice, has a bunch of new products I will play with this year. The two I have on hand are their new food-safe silicon mold making material, good to baking up to 350'F! Woo! I can make edible body parts of any kind! Or, hmmm, anything! Mmmm, lady-fingers.
We are having a party to play with this stuff -- a group purchase -- but it keeps getting delayed. The first time because the shipment came in late, the second delay because Silona (one of the key players in this party) was too bruised to make it. So maybe after next weekend we'll have a fun progress report!
I spent a few minutes with silver clay this Sunday, too -- working to fix a broken piece, and dabbling with a couple of other experiments. Nothing too thrilling, but it's nice to be in the shop. And the weather is beautiful these days! Spring in Austin... except for the pollen raping my delicate membranes, it's beautiful.
At this point in the writing front, I've got four short stories (from 3,000 to 6,000 words per) and about 11,000 words in a long story that I'm scraping out of my brain one paragraph at a time.
All of it will need some serious rewrites to pull them together, but that's expected.
The first three are obsessive love stories of different flavors, the fourth short (the 3,000 word one) is more stream-of-consciousness, but still a kind of predatory story. Later this year I'll do editing and think about marketing them...
If I had the energy, I could easily do a short story each week -- the ideas appear just about as fast as I implement them, and I've also got several novels queued in my brain. When I'm writing, it's not too hard to do a decent 1,000 words an hour... but hard to do more than a couple hours in a sitting! My brain gets all overheated, and starts skimping.
It's funny how so many people I know are professional writers, aspiring writers, recreational writers -- I would almost feel like a "me-to" if writing hasn't been something in my background most of my life. I'm simply moving it up to the fore now.
And I forget that I do happen to have five books published. Heheheh. But they are light technical, they don't count.
Mmm, fiction. While I'm at it, I could try ramming bamboo slivers under my nails, or pounding my head against a brick wall.
But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.