Wed, 17 Dec 2003
I need a word
... For the sensation of thinking so hard that your brains
feel like they're oozing out of your ears under the pressure.
Yes, I'm halfway through "Accelerando" story #9, "Survivor".
And it's hard work, because I'm trying
to somehow combine that elusive sense of closure that all long
works of fiction need (and without which,
Gardner assures me, I can expect an angry mob of Asimov's SF magazine
readers to come and burn an upside-down microprocessor on my lawn)
with a viable final episode in the bugfuck family saga I've
been writing for four years -- despite having to cram it
all into a novelette.
On the plus side, I got 1500 words done today. On the minus
side, I think I just sprained my cerebrum.
(The fantasy novel I've got to write next month is going to
seem like a stroll in the park in comparison.)
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Must write harder
Back from three days of spurious sysadmin work in Leeds.
Followed by a day of exhaustion; now it's time to get back to
work, I think.
Meanwhile the new printer arrived (an HP Laserjet 1300) and is
plugged into the Airport Extreme pending my big network
switch-over from the old, crummy Belkin router.
In other news from the
reality-especially-when-simulated-is-far-stranger-than-fiction
department, the
controversy continues over allegedly under-age
teen prostitution inside a massively multiplayer online
role-playing game (i.e. a computer game). The whole issue of
copyright inside MMORPGs is
increasingly
bizarre (warning: Microsoft Word document)
and there seems to be a trend towards allowing gamers who
create
objects within the game to own copyright in them, potentially turning internal
game universe entities into something exchangable for real
money. How long until
someone exposes a 419 scam running entirely in a gaming universe?
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