Month: July 2021

Fiction for Worldbuilding course

Sunday 25 July 2021

As with my last entry, the intervening time seems to have flashed by. On second thought, it’s not so bad: I’d mis-dated by last entry, and looking at the timestamp shows my memory of it only being about five days was accurate.

Last Wednesday, the day after that post, I turned in my story excerpt for the Worldbuilding course. It was 25 pages, and I’d developed it over the last two weeks. I feel quite good about it — not because it is wonderful — but because I believe it’s the first time I’ve written a story, OK, part of a story, that is driven by characters rather than by ideas about technology or worlds.

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On my writing ecosystem…

Monday 20 July 2021

Two weeks have gone roaring by. I’ve written quite a bit, but not diary entries.

I’m developing a sense for my writing ecosystem. At the lowest level, I am recording fragments. This mostly happens during and after my run. During my run I capture thoughts as reminders on my iPhone, and then after the run, when I am back at the car cooling down, I record them at greater length in a notebook I keep there; I then take a picture of it with my phone, so I can leave the notebook in the car. It is sobering to see that I can only recall about half of the fragments, and have to look at the reminders to get the rest.

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The Mind in the Hand

7 July 2021

I have spent the last four years learning piano.

I started late, just after I turned 61. I was starting pretty much from scratch – I knew the treble cleff and quarter and half and whole notes, but that’s about it. They say that one learns things – especially things like language and music and dancing – better before puberty. That may be so.

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