Just some thoughts.

I haven't posted in a while (that BSG finale was just too amazing, really), so I thought I would just make an entry without any real purpose beyond expressing some thoughts.

It might be a rather lengthy entry so I thought I'd put it all under a page break thingie.

I mentioned a while back that I finished that "pocket watch" story I had been working on for so long; well, I did finish it, in the sense that I finally reached from beginning to end.  However upon workshopping it with a few people, it lacks some depth and could use another re-write to incorporate some more "high stakes" elements to it.  I know what to do with it, and will do it eventually, but it might mean turning it back into a novel.  Go figure, eh?

Having said that, my plan is to gather up all existing, unpublished short stories and put them into an ebook (and a print version as well, since I still have that CreateSpace code for a free proof copy I can use) and make it available.  This includes the current, technically-unfinished version of the aforementioned story.  I'm not expecting to make money off of this, I just want to put it out there.

I was also thinking this morning about how I'm not having the most fun possible writing.  I'm going to attribute this to misplaced goals.  For some reason I have the feeling like I should be writing to perfection and making some money selling my stories.  This shouldn't be the case, I think, because I'm finding reasonable success with my podcast/blog.  That is my niche right now, and though my terms of success are pitiful in others' views, I'm making some headway with it and having fun.

And from there, I thought about the stuff I used to write.  I used to write for fun, and I had fun!  I didn't stress over every minutae, worrying about whether the story worked or not.  I just wrote whatever came to mind.  I think actually these thoughts came to mind after listening to several episodes of Mike Detective, an extremely funny (and somewhat inspiring) podcast.

Another thing I thought about a while ago is that I should write an ebook about how to make a podcast.  The key to it that I was thinking was making the distinction that it's NOT called "How to make a successful podcast", it's just how to make a podcast - it's up to YOU to make it successful.  I think I could do a fairly decent job putting something like this together, though it would take a lot of work to make it good.

And finally, we come to Caprica.  I still want to watch this series, as I feel like it will sort of put BSG into a different light.  I don't know when I'm going to get to this though, because of technical considerations (i.e., how can I watch this more comfortably than simply sitting at my desk watching on my laptop).  I'll think of something.  I am eagerly awaiting the launch of the new BSG series, Blood and Chrome.

Oh, also, new Doctor Who starts this weekend.  There's going to be a Who marathon on Space to lead up to it, but I can't honestly say I'm willing to spend my entire weekend sitting in front of the TV.  I actually do have some semblance of a life to live.  I don't know if I'll even be able to watch the episode live this weekend, but hopefully Space puts the new episode online as they have been doing with other shows lately.