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…a reminder

David Thurston — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:08:11 +0000

I don’t know why I’m reminding the void, but maybe one day when people discover this blog they’ll read back and discover they’re far too late to sign up for Capclave 2009, which is next weekend. Online registration is available through this weekend, same price as at the door, that’s $60/person for procrastinators like me. I think this year I’ll just do the advance registration for next year at the event which is something ridiculous like half price.

…a motive

David Thurston — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:46:43 +0000

One thing that’s been lacking in preparing for Capsule is any idea of why the body that’s lying dead on the sidewalk at the beginning is lying dead on the sidewalk at the beginning. That would seem to be a rather vital part of the plot, even though it’s meant to be a horror/thriller rather than a murder mystery. But that changed over the weekend, helped in part by an SUV I was driving behind whose license plate started XUA. I realized that the dead girl on the pavement had a name. Xua. At least that’s the name she went by after being drawn into the Titlacauan.

Then, I figured out why she died, who killed her, who suggested she be killed (gasp!), his motivation behind suggesting it, and where she was killed. Because just bouncing questions of my wife is the single greatest writing exercise I know.

I’m starting to think I might be able to write this thing.

Reminder: Less than a month til Capclave.

…countdowns

David Thurston — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:33:12 +0000

In my effort to make this blog ever more and more of an actual living thing that one day people other than Day and Renee might read and enjoy, I’ve added content down the right hand side over there in the form of some countdowns. Three big events:

Capclave: Seriously, a great place to be a writer and just to hang out. This will be an early trial for CVS 2.0, but will not yet be the official coming out party. Still, several of us are talking about being there, and at just $55 head, it’s a rather good value. Last year I went to both World Fantasy and Capclave, and would you believe it’s Capclave I got more out of? Well believe it.

Nanowrimo: This is when I’ll be doing a lot of work on actually writing Capsule. There’s something about Nanowrimo that just gets me writing in a way that is hard to duplicate at other times in the year. I’ve been victorious four out of the last 5 years.

Balticon: When you see us talking 2.0, this is what it’s about. This is where several CVS members have some name and face recognition, and this is going to be the big coming out party. But the time Balticon rolls around, I really am hoping to have a first draft of Capsule, and at least a good chunk of the second draft of Conqueror Worm.