Writing Update: 05/01/24 (Patreon)

First update of the new year!

Start of week: 0 (!)

End of week: 2,786

Change: +2,786

A strong start to the year I feel, considering it wasn't possible to start any writing on New Years Day and I had a twelve-hour work day on Thursday.  The current side project (which needs a better name than Unnamed Fantasy Short Story) is proceeding well, and I'm having a lot of fun with it - more on that later.  Jotted down a few more ideas for Chapter 6 (and beyond) of Constant, inspired by work commute listening of The Coming Wave.  Listening had me thinking a little about how much the world has changed--and consequently, the sci-fi "realities" of setting a story a few decades in the future--since starting the story.  To put it into context, the first Iphone came out around the time I started chapter one of Constant in All Other Things.  I thought I was being forward-thinking when in Chapter 2 I had Agent K taking photos with her camera (!) and uploading them to the cloud.  Now, the "future" of the first series feels dated in its prosaic details (the day-to-day living) though the sci-fi prosthetics and so on remain fantasy; but the current stuff, in many ways, probably isn't "sci-fi" enough, at least insofar as AI seems likely to impact the next ten years.  Exciting and terrifying stuff.