How are the WIPs going?
I didn't get much work done this week. I've had a bit of writer's block brought on by a minor headache that just won't let up. Even now as I'm writing this, my vision's all blurred and I just want to crawl back into bed. That being said, I've tried to power through. I'm almost done editing Storm of Monsters, and I felt like I wrote most of a good essay on why I'm a Christian and not a Buddhist; I suppose I'll polish it up and put it on my blog later.
It's very frustrating not being able to do the thing you love to do. I love writing; it is a great passion with me. However, with the way I've been this week, I'm just falling asleep at my keyboard or staring blankly at a wall. God willing, I can break through today and get back to writing.
I did manage to read a little. As I was researching more about The King in Yellow, I discovered another "decadent" author named Vincent O'Sullivan. I picked up some of his short stories in a collection called A Book of Bargains. They were mostly good. If some of the stories felt incomplete, they were still all generally enjoyable. The stories which stood out most to me were The Bargain of Rupert Orange and When I was Dead. In general, the stories were about big emotions and shocking immorality. Like the King in Yellow, though, the premise of the book is dropped pretty quickly; in point of fact, only the first story has any "bargain" in it.
I also read R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots. It was good. I can see why it's stuck with people. It is interesting that, even though we get the word robot from this play, no one would necessarily recognize Rossum's Robots as robots in the modern sense. They're closer to whatever Dr. Pretorious is up to in Bride of Frankenstein, an army of homunculi or something.
Anyway, I think I agree with the author that there is something inherently anti-communist about the love of a man and a woman, and that communism is a self-defeating philosophy that can only last a generation. Or maybe I'm misreading him. I do suggest you pick it up if you're interested.
Well, there's an insight into my triumphs and struggles this week. I hope I can get back to my main WIP this week and knock that word count out of the ballpark. Let me know how your week has gone. What have you been working on? What has stopped you? What has helped you?
