I've been interested in NaNoWriMo for a while now...I'm a four year veteran of the 3-day Novel Writing contest, so the idea of applying endurance techniques over the long haul intrigues me (I amazed myself and knocked out about 40 000 words of some of my best prose last year).
I'm actually starting to consider my next 3-day topic now.
I'm also reconstructing an odd-thousand pages of notes I lost when my old laptop got stolen between backups; the novel is a historical treatment dealing with a meeting between Leibniz and St. Joseph of Cupertino.
I'm pounding out a one-act play filtering a love triangle through Don Quixote.
I've been doing, with mixed but encouraging results, a poetry cycle called "Wrestle me, Nephilim my heirs" using techniques I call 'constrained aleatorics' that rest somewhere between machine poetry and Oulipo.
I've been finishing the art and draft text for a PDF RPG I plan to release for free in a few months, about a near future dystopia plagued with delusional psychotic supers. I'm also drafting a rules system for my far-future setting, Invictus.
I'm working with a few others assembling a show pitch aimed at TV Ontario and the CBC to do an interview show for speculative fiction and comic books (modelled after, for those who know it "Prisoners of Gravity").
I'm knocking around a short story that grew out of my having met Lord Jeffery Archer during my recent stay in Cambridge.
However, the thing that's really grabbing my attention right now is an idea for a book in 64 short chapters using nanofic and Borges-esque techniques, that traces its progression by tracking through the I Ching as mapped to a chess board, then jumping hexagram to hexagram via a Knight's Tour.
I have a bunch of little things on the go too, mostly embryonic.
Mind you, lately I've only been getting anything done when I'm not drunk, chasing women or at Barbelith (Hey Abigail: does that make me part of the "I'm an important White, North American Male author, and I type one-handed because I'm holding my penis all the time' school of literature"?). |