The week opened with two days of inservices, followed by a day off due to a sick out by our bus drivers (long story and I'm not even sure what happened really), and then two days of work. It was a very short week for me at the day job yet oddly tiring all the same.
On Mind the Thorns:
Sadly, no update this time out, but I can assure everyone that the next chapter is in the works. However, as you will see below, it might be delayed just a pinch.
On Bastion: The Last Hope
Bastion came back with an update following the KC130 crew, this time from the point of view of one of the copilots. We get a chance to see the group from a different angle, meet a different character, and find out a little bit about what exactly is happening.
On Fictional Omens
Owing to a wacky week I went back to the archives and found a great post about writing in 1st person and why its so hard. Which is ironic because this week saw another dust up of "Authors Behaving Badly" as one tried to defend his rather casual writing style and his informal treatment of the audience. I may write more on it, if I feel I want to take the risk, as his response to the review got him pretty slammed.
At home:
As a heads up, the next few weeks are going to be crazy at work as we end out the school year. Final grades are due, and for the first time in a long time it looks like I'll need to clean out my classroom in case I teach somewhere else in the fall. Finding time (and energy) to compose is going to be tough. So everyone knows Mind the Thorns will get another chapter before Memorial Day weekend, and Bastion has three more posts before the buffer is exhausted. After that it may go on hiatus for a few weeks to rebuild the buffer as we move into summer. The one perk of teaching is that I will have time this summer to muse and write in and around spending time with the kids and the family.
Plus my parent's cottage now has high speed internet and Wifi so I can go work up there as well.
And.... your weekly video:
A few weeks ago Wil Weaton was asked what he might say to a woman's newborn daughter about why it was awesome to be a nerd.
Here goes:
No comments:
Post a Comment