It was a dark and stormy night

And it was, too, on this night that I returned to the project to begin EP07. I've been writing IBRT stuff the last few days, and facilitating (I hesitate to call it 'teaching') a writer's workshop for the IBRT. Sheparding fledgling writers can be difficult, so I didn't see the possibility of writing much for the SL until tonight. Something about the good rain with an occasional flash of thunder made me think I could get started. I could. Seven has been begun, if only the first page of it. The problem, as I see it, is that this is another descent into the abyss. How to make those things interesting when there's, what, four of them? Is a challenge. For some reason, the voice in Gillian's head started envolking Lovecraft. Hmmm.

Checking in

Nearly a month has gone, and though there is little to report, I know I needed to check in. I've finished E06, meaning the series is nearly half-drafted. That's a pretty good rate considering the idea came to me at the last CONvergence (a sci fi convention I attend each 4th of July weekend) and I spent the better part of the year not writing SL. I am working on a new Icebox script. It doesn't take precident, exactly, but I have fixed deadlines for Icebox.

I'm reading a book Diane found for me called "H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life" by M Houellebecq. I have often wondered about Lovecraft and his significance in questions of religion. Here was a man with no faith to speak of who envisioned a universe that predated a creator God. His was an evil place made of dreams, the deeper their origin in the subconscious, the better. It really begs the question, is there a place, either in the physical world or the world of the mind, where God is completely absent? That might be the entire point of the SL. This is a place where God is absent. Or is he.

Checking in...

And just that. Checking in. It has been quite a while since I've written. I honestly can't remember what episode I'm on, exactly. I have finished re-organizing my office which is a kind of nesting instinct that comes up every couple of years. Thankfully, that is not something I need to worry about for a while. I posted an Imagination-X episode yesterday with a new, very short piece that was just called 'Meditation' Call it aural art without a real purpose or story. It would fit nicely inside the world I'm trying to create in SL. Maybe I'll write some tonight.