Red Room Where the Writers Are

It would be nice if you could actually plan your writing schedule.  It seems that writing assignments come in clumps and clusters....everything seems to happen at once.  While Steel Stonehenge, the "prequel" to Plasma Dreams is out there in the Universe on its latest round of "ignorings" I've been slavishly attempting to finish three prosaic pieces all at once.  The upgrades to the FCC study guide are "in the can" at this time...it's nice to have something like that finally out of my hands.  Now, the Opus of Amateur Radio Knowledge and Lore is threatening to become reality, about the same time my inspirational manifesto "The Spirit of the Craftsman" has aroused some interest.

The Spirit of the Craftsman is the first work I've ever proposed before its completion.  By "completion" I mean a complete first draft--of course there will be many rewrites and revisions before it's finished.  However, my normal way of doing things is to have them finished before they see the light of day, under the assumption that it's easier to fix something that exists than to fix something that doesn't.  I suppose this latest departure is an indication of a developing self-confidence or sheer lunacy.   I'll let you know which it is as soon as I find out. :)

My third pressing assigment is the completion of the Plasma Dreams screenplay.  Peigi Midey, who produced the Plasma Dreams Trailer (linked on my page) has been "prevailing sorely" upon me to get the screenplay properly formatted so she can shop it out.  Peigi evidently has a lot more faith in my screenplay than I do, which is a good thing.  It's a lot better to have someone else tell people how wonderful you are than to try to convince them yourself.  Peigi is someone you really want in your corner.

 Which reminds me, Jenny Tse (now Jenny Downer), who played Lisa Tang in the trailer, has just opened up a marvelous tea house in Fairbanks, called Sipping Streams.  Now, I must say that getting married and starting a business is a pretty lame excuse to resign a non-paying acting role by an unknown writer with an unsold script, but since it is such a wonderful tea house, I've had to cut her some slack.  Once things start running themselves a bit, and she can come up for air, Jenny has indicated she is still interested in continuing the role of Miss Tang.  This is a good thing, because there aren't many people in Fairbanks that can replace Jenny for the role.  There are supposed to be about a billion and a half Chinese people on the planet, but they're sure hard to find when you want free movie stars.  :) 

In any case, anyone reading this is required to come to Fairbanks and pay Jenny a visit at her shop.

I suppose at this time, I should take a page from my own writing.  In The Spirit of the Craftsman, I expound on the Proverb, "Where there are no oxen, the crib is clean."  The meaning of this Proverb is that progress is...to be euphemistic...very non-linear, to say the least.

 So now, I shall put a sock in it and retire to my messy crib.

Eric