Jason Córdova's Blog, page 69

Lagging Behind Schedule

With all those cameras, you'd think someone had a clue...

I hate it when my plans all go awry. As a writer, it especially pisses me off when my characters go off on tangents without my approval (or giving me a head's up… what the hell, Tori? Your story's been told already) and force me to change direction with something I'm working on.

Or when, more often than not, my writing schedule changes because my work schedule had been in flux for the past six months.

I've been battling a cold off and on ...

Ouch

I sliced my finger open last night on a metal tray… the only thing I'm glad about is that it's on my left hand and I don't usually type with that finger. Yes, I'm a hunt-and-peck kind of guy who still manages 70 wpm.

I wonder if I should get a tetanus shot? Or rather, another one.

Pondering

Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky? I think so Brain, but where are we going to find NERF guns at this hour?

I worked 50+ hours this past weekend, so not much has been done around any writing projects. I knew working this much was going to take a toll, but dang has it been rough. I didn't think I would make it around Saturday evening, but somehow I did.

Wish I could say I found some inner strength but, as usual, I'm just too stubborn and stupid to know when to quit.

Even with all my...

PSU Thoughts

I've been thinking about the Penn State University thing over the past few days. I have a lot of emotions about this, though specifically why the f*ck didn't anybody ever decide that the police should be notified?

This is reprehensible. Every single person who was involved in this in one way or another (failure to call the police, failure to report it, failure to MAN UP AND STOP A CHILD FROM BEING RAPED) should be, at the minimum, fired and charged with a crime.

Cowardice and "it's not my...

BOOK BOMB

Tomorrow we help out an amazing author and his family.

Go to Monster Hunter Nation for more info.

BOOK BOMB!

Assumptions Risk

Because it doesn't matter who's knocking, it's Batman opening the door.

I have new neighbors. They speak a lot of Spanish whenever they see me.

Apparently they don't realize that the "white" guy across the hall understands them.

Some people and their assumptions…

I was thinking about characters last night (yes, I said I was going to slow down for writing… doesn't mean I'm stopping, though) and was wondering why writers almost never seem to make anybody but the main character incorrect in their...

Funky Roadtrip

I act cute and adorable and come up with cute punchlines for this website. In return, the human doesn't turn me into a winter coat. Win-win, I'd say.

I survived my (semi) impromptu road trip back to Virginia on no sleep and some really bad chicken from Applebee's over in West Virginia somewhere.

Got my winter gear; bring on the snow! (just kidding, Old Man Winter… you can hold off until March if it's all good with you)

Bad to work. Just thought I'd drop in and say "Hi".

 

Slowdown Coming

It'll be as slow as snow melting in a 33F day...

I just want to bang my head on my desk for a minute.

….ahhhhh.

I love my publishers, I really do. They (for the most part) put up with my whining and harassment (you know, my twice-yearly email of "so what's going on?") and deliver the goods. But at the same time they sometimes make me just want to beat my head on my keyboard. Not that doing so will help anything, but it'll make me feel better.

I think I'm going to shut down the writing process...

The Novel That Wasn't

Spock knew, but kept quiet because he wanted to see the look on Kirk's face when he found out. That crafty Vulcan...

Ever read a science fiction novel and realize halfway through that it… wasn't?

I'm reading this story right now that someone sent me (friend of a friend, apparently) and it was billed as a SF novel. I went ahead and started reading it and realized about 100 pages in that it was more of a dystopic society based on religion in the far-flung future. There were elements of SF in it, ...

Nobody's As Cool As LeVar

Nobody's as cool as LeVar Burton

The wonderful Sarah Hoyt (a writer who blogs, who is one of my favorite people) was talking about the "Art of the Human Condition" this morning over at her blog (read it here) and just what people seem to want. The quotes are mine, since it was hard for me to sum up the entirety of her message. But this got me thinking about how, a few years back, a good friend of mine and I broke down the Hugo and Nebula winners and saw a strange pattern develop.

Much like the ...