SepSceneWriMo was a success. And rather entertaining, aside from the heart attack, cough, cough.
And then in October a few stories dribbled forth, gonorrhea of the mind.
And now November and the unpleasantness that has first bludgeoned and then strangulated the country. Yuck!
Not to mention this new job and the fact that I’m like, “uhhhh, I fergetted how ta progrum. Cain you hep me figgur out what the hell this’um means?”
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;
fn simulated_expensive_calculation(intensity: u32) -> u32 {
let expensive_closure = |num| {
println!("calculating slowly...");
thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(intensity));
num
};
}
But, what about writing? Well, my Indonesian artist friend emailed me, distraught. It seemed he was at wits-end regarding some life decision. “Moi? You want to know /my/ opinion? Well, sure.” Turns out he’d applied for a job at the Ministry of Communication (5000 applicants, 500 jobs) and was in financial straights without it. So, I sent him some money (to have him draw some illustrations for a novel I’ll prolly never finish) and waited.
He created a nice picture and informed me he’d gotten the job. Whew, was he happy. Now I’ve got to buckle down and get back writing on this followup novel of mine.
Veren the trickster after he duped some ruffians in flooded Reno, Nevada. (He’s got dreadlocks and is pretty much an urchin/orphan.)
Anonymole - apocryphal agitators 
If Reno is flooded that seems very problematic for the rest of us!
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Won’t happen for a couple of hundred years, after the Coronal Mass Ejection… The whole Great Basin fills up with sea water.
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Why is everyone hating on the drawing? I quite like it.
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It’s the sneaky look on the little guy’s face.
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Yeah, he’s sneaky. He uses logic to fool the fools.
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Picture is fine on this end. Maybe not in the app. Teenage spiral notebook cartoon people! Dreads? Orphan? Urchin? Who does his hair? No, I’ll wait for the book.
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Yeah, his images are not representative of the artist’s personality or flair, something I’ve tried to get him to impart, but to no avail. They’re comic book style, but, they fit the age group.
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That’s okay. My favorite long time personal friend and multi-media partner graphic artist has returned to his late LSD period with no sign of returning to anything that doesn’t look like downtown Tokyo neon while spinning just before you fall down.
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I can’t see the picture and I really want to! I don’t know anything about coding but it looks like the little man is falling asleep:-)
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The image might be available now.
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Ooh, that’s terrific!
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Orphan urchin is perfect for you. Plenty of ruminating, not many speaking lines😂
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True, but I’ll be stretching that meme considerably with this one.
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I can’t see the picture– is there a different format you can use?
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I altered the source in the post… It may show up now.
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I can see it now, thanks. That is an unusual looking individual. Did your friend provide you with multiple pictures for your stories, or just the one?
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In my 2nd novel, The Gribble’s Eye, I had him draw 50. For this one, maybe 10 will do.
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What do you do with your novels?
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Draft2digital.com & thebookpatch.com & smashwords.com all allowed me to publish for free.
Thebookpatch.com is a POD, print on demand, and you can get hard copies that cost ~$10 there (300-400 pages).
Draft2digital.com will send ebook formats up to all the major channels like amazon:
https://amazon.com/author/davecline
And smashwords allows me to offer ebooks for free, (I’m not in it for the $.)
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Wow look at that! That must have been very exciting to push the Publish button. I’ll have to add you to the list.
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Are you going to enter Nanowrimo?
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1650 words / day — no way.
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Hey, we could polish something that’s in the can, use NANO to put up an edited chapter a day…
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The strangest thing about NaNo is that it’s this fake contest that you can “win” (with only yourself as the judge and jury).
I don’t quite know who benefits from this bizarre phenomena. Surely not the Lit Agents who, I’m sure, despise all the schlock they receive come January. No, it was started by some writer’s app marketing numbskull.
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Like any number of “non profit” operations they pass the hat/tin cup, sell swag, offer “upgrade” services. Via the internet I am acquainted with this guy who has over a dozen “books” in the can. I wondered why some publisher didn’t pick him up for points until I tried to read one. Claims to have an editor. Who sticks semi colons in dialogue tags! He’s doing nano. What ami doing for nano? Putting a short story book together and trying to re write the Kerrigan Bank Robbery with about five fewer stand in characters and get to the point. Which I would if the point would expose itself.
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The point is that Paro and the Chica are star-crossed and know it, and one of them will have to mortally sacrifice themselves for the other. It’s a Texan Romeo/Juliet with the Montagues and Capulets, the CIA & the Cartel thinking they’re calling the shots.
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They walk away, although him not believing he’ll ever see her, or the money, or an airplane again. North by Northwest with a subplot. And it’s the subplot thats killing me.
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