First, a note: I need to start collecting photos of old typewriters. It's getting more and more difficult to find proper images to fit this blog. And, while I adore the aesthetic of my grandfather's typewriter, variety is demanded. This April's Camp NaNoWriMo was instructive. Not only did I meet my goal, which was admittedly… Continue reading Cracking the Frost
Author: urdith
Would be author, photographer and dreamer living in the corporate world.
Cycles & Sunrises
Ivre, draft one, is done. In the end, the beast clocked in at 153K words and has taken up about two years of my creative energies. I think I would have completed it much, much faster if I had taken the time to outline the book from the start. But, I will say the time… Continue reading Cycles & Sunrises
Available Dark
I've heard the most dangerous kind of skier is a mid-level skier. The beginners are slow and tentative. They don't know what they're doing, so they're cautious. Experts are experts. They can rush through slopes with little effort. Bumps and turns which would panic beginners are easy to navigate for the expert. Ah, but the… Continue reading Available Dark
Deprecation & Satire
Image taken from page 7 of 'The Speaker's Eye, a satire. By F. R', a photo by The British Library on Flickr.This may be the last of my image posts to WordPress via the automatic sharing. Apparently it's being deprecated, along with LIveJournal. Thus, things change and die off, leaving me to rig up HTML… Continue reading Deprecation & Satire
Metaphysical Graffiti
StMarysMonastary-23, a photo by Urdith on Flickr.Inspiration for a future project.
Joining the Insect Army
What is the insect army? Learn more here. I know it doesn't mean much coming from a barely published writer. But I know when the ranks are counted which side I want to be on.“The problem is that the ‘vocal minority’ of insects who make up the new generation of writers don’t scramble for the… Continue reading Joining the Insect Army
Story Note and…
First, the story note: Story idea from a dream: Under a resort in the Balkans, on the Dalmatian coast, there is a cavern of crystal. The resort owners know it. So does the secret police. They all work for the thing which lives inside the cave. They do its bidding because it keeps business going.… Continue reading Story Note and…
Short Story Note: Mustache & Portrait
Kenyon Cox, a photo by Smithsonian Institution on Flickr.A young woman/urban explorer breaks into a ruined antebellum mansion from her youth to confront a painting of a dark man with a wire-bristle mustache which terrified her as a child.
Story Idea – Office Crowd
City, crowded office space, a photo by The Library of Virginia on Flickr.What if the structure of reality itself depended on keeping someone in their soul-crushing office job? What would it do to the person assigned to keep this office drone miserable? Via Flickr: Title: City, crowded office space Creator: Adolph B. Rice Studio Date:… Continue reading Story Idea – Office Crowd
Welcome to the World of the Future
I cannot escape it. The time has come to once again set mile-markers in the ground and see how I do. And there is still one big item looming on my personal goals: Ivre - at this point, the novel is over 130,000 words and I'm still 14 or so scenes from completing it. At… Continue reading Welcome to the World of the Future
Biomechanoid Blues 