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Getting Hot
Summer officially arrives next week but the heat is here already. Some people think the mid-70s is nice but it’s really not my thing.
More Symptoms
Still getting the random swelling in my left foot/ankle, which sucks. Yesterday, I woke up with a humdinger of a headache and it lasted until after suppertime. Luckily, I didn’t have that today but geez! I’m seriously not liking life these days.
Something From Something
Kelly and I have been working on a project of hers. We’re re-webbing our porch swing so we can enjoy the great outdoors again. Kelly has also planted some mosquito bushes around the yard so that we don’t need to spray so much in order to enjoy the outdoors.
Personally, I’d rather live on a space station with a controlled climate that varies between Autumn and Winter. Since that’s not an option, I’ve got to do the best with what I’ve got. Eventually, I’ll be allowed to put the AC in the window. Kelly’s resisting that for now but we’ll see how it goes as we zoom into the 80s and 90s in weeks to come.
Something From Nothing
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. ~Frank Zappa
I am, by nature, a creator. I spent 20 years programming. I do my best work when I have the option to be creative. Right now, I’m working on a series of novels. Obviously, the intention is to sell them. First, I’ve got to get them done. I had a serious intuition for how a program got done. I’m still building that instinct for story writing. I don’t know what the end is. I’ve got a setting and a group of characters but I don’t have the endpoint.
When my son and I went to Comic-Con a few years ago, we attended a session by Jim Shooter. He said that a story consisted of a beginning, a middle and an end. “Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, who sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away.” That’s a story. The beginning starts in the middle of the action. There’s an inciting incident. There’s a reaction. There’s a conclusion. A whole story all in one little nursery rhyme.
Well, I’ve got a beginning that’s in media res. I’ve got an inciting incident. The reaction and the conclusion are still kind of fuzzy for me. I’ve got some waypoints but it’s nothing like a complete, coherent story yet.
Oh well, gotta keep working at it.
That’s what I’ve got to say today. Hope you’re having a lovely pre-summer day.