A Spec in Time Series

Blog. Blog: Bllllooooooggg!!!!! “THEY” say. They say a lot of nothing. I don’t see they doing anything. If they really wanted me to blog, they would blog for me. Right? I hurt; I am tired; I don’t feel good. I want to write important things; Spec is very busy with the penguins right now and is not at all happy about this delay, or with the penguins for that matter. Don’t they know that the penguins are far more important than blogging? But that may just be Specs perspective about the whole blogging thing. 

Step One of writing: Barfing

Yes, you may be reading the first book, and if you are not… WHY?  Spec is almost done barfing out the bulk of the second book.  Barfing, yes; that is what I call the first part of my writing style. We throw it up on the page. Ideas, concepts, coded shorthand, and in full. Dialog with just S: and M: or whomever. Notes are added as to what needs to be looked up. I color-code everything. One time I forgot to take out a highlighted unfinished section, and a proofer said ‘I don’t know why or what the violent green stuff is, but it sucks.’ She was right, but when I actually got to rewrite it, she was proven wrong. Thoughts come up like what did I call it there? Do I foreshadow that foreshadowing? Then… the dreaded, most hateful numbers. Oh, how I hate the numbers. They are always highlighted in red or another loud colour. (let’s not forget the Brit spellings that must be fixed) Numbers always go in last. I will spend days beating my head against my desk with numbers. For The Domes, oh the numbers that need to be dealt with, it may be weeks and skull fractures. Give me Greek, Latin, anything but numbers. Why can’t I just stick with “A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos. Bless that man for starting me on my love of whatever is out there.

Barfing is how we get the story out of the head. As for order… well nothing from this head comes out in any order. I don’t even consider working from head to toe until stage 3) Refining. There is a lot of Crafting that has to happen before; that would be stage 2 in case you have things out of order in your head – because it is totally in order in my mind. Out of chaos comes order. You will find this to be true in nearly everything. Chaos is our friend and should not be feared. Angered, yeah it can do that. But that energy is what pushes us to create greatness out of the chaos.

So now I have blogged, I hope it makes they happy. I have been also thinking about this:

I noticed that Amazon prints a few pages of the book, I don’t even know if there is a way to stop that? So, I go with this chaos. I thought about putting in some other snippets here on the blog at some point too. Or talking about where some of the thoughts came from in the pages Amazon has so kindly printed. I like answering questions. I am such a slut enticer. Okay, I am far from a slut. I have people for that. Talk amongst yourselves, I am fairly certain you can comment below.

Again, read the Harvesters, and tell everyone, maybe a review would be lovely for this blog. I will write later about some of the wonderful comments I have received. I have wonderful people in my life, even if they are lying, but I know they are not.