A quick note: my blogging will probably continue to be extremely sporadic for the foreseeable future, since almost all of the writing I do each day is for the novel in progress (which’ll be done… whenever it’s done). And I rarely check my Facebook account. But I’m relatively active on Twitter (@dexterauthor): I seem to be able to find 140 characters to spare every once in a while.
On abandoning books
Once I start reading a book, I’m always extremely reluctant to put it down without finishing it. It always seems like I could be making a mistake in doing so, that I’m returning the book to its shelf just before reading the page that would justify all the time I’d invested in it before. Still, though, there are a few books I’ve abandoned and haven’t yet returned to: here are my confessions.
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Miscellany
Blog posting has been infrequent lately, because most of my writing each day is going into a new novel. But in my spare time I’ve been into these things:
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Procrastination
It’s common to hear writing advice that says you should write every day, no matter what, but I’ve found that procrastination is an essential part of the writing process, and any reasonable timetable for completion of a long work will account for it. I’m in a procrastination period now, but that’s not a bad thing: the impulse to procrastinate is a phenomenon best defeated by embracing it. And procrastination has its uses.
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Bullspec interview (from Summer 2010)
For those who haven’t seen this, here’s an interview I did by e-mail with Sam Montgomery-Blinn for the Summer 2010 issue of Bullspec. It’s mostly about The Dream of Perpetual Motion, but other subjects show up, too.
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Catherine
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve finished up a playthrough of Atlus’s new game Catherine. It’s the hardest game I expect to play this year (unless I can make time for Dark Souls when that comes out), but if it weren’t as challenging as it is, it wouldn’t work as a game.
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Another note on digression
The release of the new volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, which several of my friends are either reading or getting ready to read, has got me thinking about digression again.
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The Waste Land on iPad
In an earlier post on acquiring an iPad, I said it was “halfway between a clever toy and a useful tool.” That was when I didn’t know what it was for. I know what it’s for now—it’s for reading The Waste Land.
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Persona 3 Portable
After 90 hours spread out over five months, I finally finished Persona 3 Portable yesterday. It’s the fifth Shin Megami Tensei game I’ve completed (along with Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga I and II, and Strange Journey), and also, I think, the strangest.
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Cameo appearances
The Dream of Perpetual Motion has been mentioned in one form or another in two recently published books that are both well worth a look.
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