the trouble with being a lazy blogger is that when you're totally inspired to talk about anything that may possibly have a modicum of substance in it but you don't have a fast connection and aren't even in front of your laptop or pc at the moment the inspiration hits and you have to put it off for tomorrow when you go to work and have access to a free, relatively fast and hassle-free internet connection, by the time you finally do get in front of your office pc to splurge an hour or two on blogging, you don't really feel like putting up your inspired ideas anymore.
i was gonna say something about how synchronicity's a bitch when you're a spec fic writer who doesn't write fast enough and isn't getting his stuff published anyway, because some bloke is probably gonna have similar ideas that he's bound to get published and by the time you get your stuff out there, everyone will think you'd copied off the other bloke and that just isn't true.
plus, he's bound to have done it better than you.
all this goes behind the sub-blog-topic-headings "why i'm reluctant to get a copy of Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora", with some references on "why i was pissed when Virtuosity came out a while back" and "why Vellum kinda miffed me when it came out," among others.
but, like i said, i don't really feel like talking about that anymore.
instead, here's a link to the latest installment in the Monday Morning Monkey Show, or whatever it's called:
http://vanderworld.blogspot.com/
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfarPQcjlpY
blow your brains out.
6 comments:
Heh. Synchronicity's a bitch indeed. Which is why I try to read as much as I can in order to avoid coming up with story ideas that have already been written. Of course it's impossible to read 'em all so when I start writing, I just cross my fingers before I do. (Which is why I also like doing local-setting spec fic since only a few people are doing this.)
So, why aren't you getting Lynch's new book? ;-)
the premise is awfully similar to a story i'm working on at the moment. the settings are totally different, and they aren't exactly the same, but still, the take-off point, from the description on the back cover of Mr Lynch's book, holds striking similarities.
so i don't want to read it, because reading it might inform and "infect" my own story. i'm just hoping my imagination takes it in a wholly different direction.
Geez, that sucks. I remember reading a short comic book in Heavy Metal about a heavily-armed team battling an alien and it turns out they're pest control. I felt bad after that because I also had the same idea but never got around to writing it. Fortunately, I've never encountered a similar incident after.
So does that mean after you write your story, you'll also read the other work?
...er, I mean get around to reading the other work?
actually, i'm seriously thinking of reading it anyway, as my own story doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment.
incidentally, my inspiration for my own story was Guy Richie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. i love the idea of fantasy worlds that don't feel like our past, but are more like the present, even when there are sf/f elements.
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