What are you writing?

[Lichen]

i was a freelance for a few years...now I work for a company

 

[luka]

i should look into that.... sounds like a good laugh... youd only need to work a few hours a week presumably.

 

[Lichen]

wrong on both counts

 

[you]

Im writing.....

Trying, and failing, to run 4 blogs at a time, too hard.

Heres my stuff.

http://oenophiliaandbacchanalia.blogspot.com/ - about food and drink

http://pyrrhicvictoriesagainst.blogspot.com/ - effort at fiction

http://notesfromthevomitorium.blogspot.com/ - random thoughts on books and stuff

http://amerkaji-meme.blogspot.com/ - bout denim, yeah, denim

Tea! Im going to have to start checking your blog again! You've done loads since I last looked.

 

[slim jenkins]

This...a new project...

http://scribbleelectric.blogspot.com/2010/09/we-are-frightened-in-some-dark.html

 

[you]

slim jenkins - that looks great, ill link you on vomitorium and pyrrhic

 

[slim jenkins]

Thank you.
I'm looking at your sites....very interesting.
Isolation overload of late...need to establish or tap into a stronger network...

 

[you]

Thank you.
I'm looking at your sites....very interesting.
Isolation overload of late...need to establish or tap into a stronger network...

just given me an idea for yet another metaphor - cheers

 

[slim jenkins]

I've PM'd you, by the way (in case, like me, you never check such things)

 

[craner]

Are any Dissensians actually writing books at the moment?

 

[luka]

i wrote one but no one liked it.

 

[craner]

Hang on, though, what do you mean? Did you produce a finished piece? Did you put it together as a manuscript? Did you try and flog it to Zero? What do you mean no one liked it? Who even saw it?

 

[you]

Luka wrote many PMs and also received many PMs.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

a scientific literature style write-up of the research I did over the summer, required so I can get the $ from the grant that funded the research, and a grant application for next summer (science, just so man dem know, is about 80% a neverending cycle of grant application writing, roughly akin to an ouroboros)

also, organic chemistry lab reports

 

[craner]

Luka wrote many PMs and also received many PMs.

And what, everyone wrote back saying, "I hate it"?

 

[you]

craner, thats pure speculation that I will not be drawn into. I do know, however, that luka's inbox is full....

 

[luka]

yeah everyone said it was shit. you saw a very early version of it and made some dismissive comment or other. my girlfriend just told me how bad my spelling is.

 

[luka]

you, if you know me why not just send me an email?
heronbone at gmail.com

 

[slim jenkins]

Are any Dissensians actually writing books at the moment?

This is almost finished...the rough'n'ready 'advert' linked below doesn't actually convey the true nature of the work but I've yet to create a new one...not so much subverting a genre...more like destroying it, along with the idea of a linear narrative...

http://includemeout2.blogspot.com/2009/12/pulped-fiction.html

 

[craner]

Well, at the geriatric age of 32 I have started to write my own novel. It's started off as an unholy mix of Anthony Powell, Kingsley Amis, Jay McInerney, Joseph Heller, Evelyn Waugh and Morecai Richler: A Dance to the Music of Time, Lucky Jim, Brightness Falls, Good as Gold, Vile Bodies and Barney’s Version relocated to Coalition Think Tank land, a kind of neoconservative roman a clef. You lot will probably hate it, but I thought I’d write the book I want to read, and see if it’s any good. It's enormous fun to write at the moment, but it's sure to turn into something entriely different by the time I get to page 200 or draft 3 or whatever.