The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Konnichiwa Songfighters,

Today has been another odd day. I've had unusual jobs to do and I'm just trying to get back on track. But I have also enjoyed today because I dedicated my train rides to re-reading Runaways comics which is so enjoyable. I've also been playing clean-up when it comes to my projects and what not. For instance, this weekend I plan to get rid of my "Band o' Mine" and "The Fight Songs" blogs. I have decided that I shouldn't worry so much about making a "real life" band especially when there's a lot of potential in internet collaborations. And doing the podcast again as well as 10kdays covers all the stuff that "The Fight Songs" would.

Now I just have to figure out the best way to balance my love or music and my love of writing. How much time do I put towards making new tunes and how much time do I put towards writing my novel "Septemberian".

Question of the Day:
Do you do any fiction writing? Have you done any in the past?

Roll Call: Work work work. Playing at Shooter's tonight. I've got a lead on a place that might want music every Monday. And they're right in town.

QotD: I've written a few short stories, and I did NaNoWriMo twice.

QotD: I've written a ton of short stories, and I have two abandoned novels. One of those final projects that I spent that delirious all-nighter doing while posting to this board back in December was a twenty-page story for a fiction class. I also do poetry.

DRC: We're supposed to fly out of Cleveland tomorrow to go visit my folks in New Orleans for the last time before the wedding, but the forecast seems to indicate that our flight will be canceled. That's pretty bad news. Of course, it's been snowing all day, and the cold has been downright bitter, so it makes sense. But still. We want to leave town to get away from this weather, and now the weather is what's keeping us here! Waaaa.

So yeah. Happy Spring, everybody.

DRC: moderate day at work...quiet afternoon.

QOTD: I used to back in HS...now mostly fiction ends up in psalm.

QotD: Well, I have a novel I started back in 1998 who's story started in a series of QBasic RPGs from '95-'98. To this day I'm only halfway or slightly more into the 1st book of what would be a 4 or 5 book series if I ever got the motivation to write it all out. It's in my head and I add more to it every day. If fact, Rone Rivendale is a character that will appear starting in book 3 and is the second more important character in the last half of the whole mythology of the series. I just like the character so much that I started using it as my screen name in chat rooms and forums around 2000 or so. Hell, I have just as many characters, places, events, etc as Tolken in the LotR lol. I dunno if I'll ever get it from brain to text though. I suck at making myself do things.

Niveous wrote:how much time do I put towards writing my novel "Septemberian".

So, how's that novel coming along........
Niv, if you haven't seen this Family Guy episode yet, you must.

QOTD: You all can read my stories in my book, "a million little pizzas". But it hasn't dropped yet.

Edit: Sorry the site was being slow.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:

Niveous wrote:how much time do I put towards writing my novel "Septemberian".

So, how's that novel coming along........
Niv, if you haven't seen this Family Guy episode yet, you must.

Are you going to do that every time I bring up my novel? If so, I'm going to have to do like Brian and push you in front of a bus.

Niveous wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote:

Niveous wrote:how much time do I put towards writing my novel "Septemberian".

So, how's that novel coming along........
Niv, if you haven't seen this Family Guy episode yet, you must.

Are you going to do that every time I bring up by novel? If so, I'm going to have to do like Brian and push you in front of a bus.

Yep.
I think of you every time I see a re-run of that bit, lol. Got a compelling protagonist...got an obstacle for him to over come? Ya?

qotd: I used to write a lot, but I never wrote anything of significant length. I do write some poetry though. (and no, it's not depressing free verse)

Yes, a good bit of writing. Some of it (particularly collaborative fiction) can be found on my website. That's a couple of years old, though. I want to write more soon.
-bill

We had what amounts to a 'band practise' last night. Laurie, who used to play guitar in Jonny Juice, came around, and we muddled through a couple of Sausage Boy songs. He seems keen to persue this further with me, and we did more drinking than playing. Still though, gotta start somewhere.

QOTD: It could be argued that largely anything I write could be considered fiction. You would find fiction by myself, either written directly or indirectly, on Skavenblight Gazette. Other than that, I haven't really written anything else anywhere else.

I had a creative writing class 11-12 years ago and wrote several short stories. The instructor compared my stuff to Harold Robbins (is that bad, I've never read his stuff?) though not as good, I'm sure. The only one I remember was about a giant potato housed in a barn that eventually burns down. Probably why I haven't written since.

This probably doesn't matter, but I meant Tom Robbins, not Harold, in the post above. Yuck! Although I just saw that Harold and I have the same birthday.

That makes a little more sense, given the description of that story you wrote.

Paco Del Stinko wrote:The only one I remember was about a giant potato housed in a barn that eventually burns down. Probably why I haven't written since.

That sounds like a page turner. I'm sure that somewhere in the story, the "baked" potato plays a part. In fact, it's so obvious that it will make my laugh with excitement when you finally mention it, because I'm already expecting it.

Paco Del Stinko wrote:I had a creative writing class 11-12 years ago and wrote several short stories. The instructor compared my stuff to Harold Robbins (is that bad, I've never read his stuff?) though not as good, I'm sure. The only one I remember was about a giant potato housed in a barn that eventually burns down. Probably why I haven't written since.

Was the potato wrapped in tin foil?

Ha! Fortunately, I don't think there were too many pages to turn. But yeah, the potato gets baked and all enjoy. P-yew!

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Ha! Fortunately, I don't think there were too many pages to turn. But yeah, the potato gets baked and all enjoy. P-yew!

Were you metaphorically the potato in your story?

in hindsight someone should have said "no, but I keep Penthouse in business"

alas the moment has passed...

I once spent 6 months writing the only English language page of the Kiribati national newspaper Te Uekera. I suppose that is journalism rather than fiction writing - but I did make a lot of shit up.