The Long Arc of Writing Projects (Book #5 in 2009)

As far back as 2009, I started thinking about what my next book would be after "The Ghosts of Nagasaki."

I knew it would be some kind of short story/ essay collection. I just didn't know exactly how it was going to come together.

These were the notes I had written at that time.


Potential Title:
(1) The Geek Versus the Zeitgeist
(2) The Glorious Five Year Plan
(3) Caffeinated Maniac Monkey　
(4) Walden 2: A Short Story Collection for those who find Short Story collections too slow.

Project Description:

Should incorporate rants, reviews, and other stuff collected from blogging, etc.

Book Description:

Three years after publishing the Lexical Funk, Daniel Clausen retreats to his fortress of solitude to consult with Kal El about the deeper meanings of the written word. Strengthened by his devoted fan base and the fact that (some) people liked his last book, Daniel uses the secret power of the internet and other Kryptonian technologies to help him improve his fan
base. Soon, with the combined power of his laptop and a rocking Asian girlfriend he ventures forth to create another installment of wordplay, funkadelic stories, and power-
packed prose. What is this strange concoction of potent wordage? It could be none other than the…

I still like the opening.

Just more proof that I have way too many ideas than I know what to do with! I still would like to write a comic book called Caffeinated Machine Gun Maniac Monkey.