May 24, 2010
I’ve made a ‘Projects’ section on the main page of the website. This comes out of uncertainty in my next project. I’ve worked through quite a bit of Samantha, but I’ve reached a point where I need to reconsider the structure of the narrative. While I let that problem stew in the background, I’ve started planning The Death of Aaron Jamison, which is based on a Short Story I wrote in 1999 called ‘Funeral’. I’m not sure if I can expand that story into a full novel, but it’s something I’ve wanted to write for a very long time. So I’ve added it to my list of projects. I also included Between the Stars because I intend to work on that as well.
In the future, I will update progress on each of those projects and I will add to the list as I spread my attention. At some point one of those will become my ‘Primary’ project, and that will be reflected. There may come a time when some item on the list will be set aside, put in a drawer, as it were. I cannot predict that, but every once in a while a story dies. It’s happened a hundred times and more through the course of my writing life.
In the mean time, progress is varied and slight. Distractions abound.