Hold me closer, Steampunk Lenin
Over on Whitechapel's Halloween Open Mic I wrote:
Lately has not been awesome. I'm having trouble remembering the last time anything I did work wise (ie, writing the stuff I get paid for) was enjoyable, never mind fun or an actual creative experience. I have decided I will not write anything else unless it is fun. Because if it's not fun, I might as well go back to pounding out soulless video game chatter in a cubicle box over there in MMORPG Land. Suffering for your art is all well and good, but I don't think the act of sitting down to work is supposed to suck quiet this much, unless your job involves entrails, the IRS or knocking on doors to tell people The Good News.
[cut for emo rambling...]
Of course, this will mean blowing two deadlines since I have to start over.
Fuck it, etc.
Yesterday and today I spent writing up some detailed notes for The Nightmare Clock and the novella. I am determined to find a better way to do this, one that doesn't break my brain on every manuscript.
And who better to help me than Steampunk Lenin?
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Found via Warren Ellis and sovietposter, Steampunk Lenin is a fine muse for an alternate-history steampunk Lovecraftian adventure set at the beginning of the cold war.
No really:
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I'm gonna start writing again tomorrow.
Originally published at Caitlin Kittredge.
Lately has not been awesome. I'm having trouble remembering the last time anything I did work wise (ie, writing the stuff I get paid for) was enjoyable, never mind fun or an actual creative experience. I have decided I will not write anything else unless it is fun. Because if it's not fun, I might as well go back to pounding out soulless video game chatter in a cubicle box over there in MMORPG Land. Suffering for your art is all well and good, but I don't think the act of sitting down to work is supposed to suck quiet this much, unless your job involves entrails, the IRS or knocking on doors to tell people The Good News.
[cut for emo rambling...]
Of course, this will mean blowing two deadlines since I have to start over.
Fuck it, etc.
Yesterday and today I spent writing up some detailed notes for The Nightmare Clock and the novella. I am determined to find a better way to do this, one that doesn't break my brain on every manuscript.
And who better to help me than Steampunk Lenin?
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Steampunk Lenin mocks you with his mighty dirigibles"]
[/caption]
Found via Warren Ellis and sovietposter, Steampunk Lenin is a fine muse for an alternate-history steampunk Lovecraftian adventure set at the beginning of the cold war.
No really:
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Steampunk Lenin sez: In Steampunk Soviet Russia, spoilers alert you!"]
[/caption]
I'm gonna start writing again tomorrow.
Originally published at Caitlin Kittredge.