Dirty Rain: Kickstarter
We launched our Kickstarter.com project yesterday for printing and publishing the first issue of Dirty Rain: Boston 2182 yesterday. We have already stacked up 1/10 of out target in just over twelve hours and we are suitably excited to see the money roll in and the project get completed.
Kudos and big thanks to everyone who has backed us so far, the first few really get the ball rolling and the energy flowing and we really appreciate it.
We will be doing a massive series of updates over at the Dirty Rain blog and ccing that to the Kickstarter blog as well. Show people some behind the curtain teasers of what they can expect from a finished product.
In other news always more 100 Ways stories being churned out into the digital void. Expect to see some some new projects announced as well. Cannot seem to move on one thing without coming up with more.
Spoiler alert, it involves Star Trek and peanut butter, and not in the way you might think. Or exactly the way you might think. Some of you aren’t so right in the head.
Updates, Assassins, Plans
Putting forth a shiny new cybernetic foot today. My two year plan finishes up on Thursday and the time has come to take stock of what went well and what still lies undone.
Explosion of updates and other assorted viscera going through on this site as we move forward into the next year of planning.
Posted today: Assassin.
Assassin is a 100 Ways story that features political intrigue, and an unspoken vow of revenge. I wrote this story on the impetus of a man firing a rifle with a bolt action. Exploring the notion of professionalism. At one point the story was largely centered around the escape. A fake attack, a burned apartment, a gun hidden that needed to be recovered. But none of these elements were essential to the story I wanted to tell. In fact most of them were highly distracting from what I was trying to do.
So I pared it down to just a professional trying to figure out what went wrong. Unspoken is the doubt of skill slipping, of getting older, of not making the cut. Just a man who knows that something else went wrong. Assured enough to figure it out, loyal enough to his self to finish what he started.
Later today updates on journals and Dirty Rain.
Keep your eyes on this space to stay abreast of everything going on in my self-contained little world. It’s going to be a year. A big long year.
Recenter Events
Been making a transition from one apartment to another. Been trying to get one laptop sent off for repairs and another up and running however sluggishly not to lose momentum.
It is quiet around here. Clearly not living up to the various insights an schedules I have assigned myself.
A tryptic of pieces have gone up over on 100Ways this week. Rounding out 190 stories in just over a year and 210 to go.
For those of you who follow the life and times of everyone’s favorite wordsmith, these stories are all sort of auto-biographical and all feature something unique and important about character and story.
Assuming I did it right, you will find that it is not the obvious part. It is not the obvious character. It is not what you think.
New Link
Well it only took a few weeks, but the newest project now has its own little link over there at the side. Tentatively titled “Dirty Rain” this is the story of a future world where everything is different except for the people.
100 Ways chugs on with 172 stories as of today and the anniversary on the horizon at the end of March. a year of (mostly) consistent posts has created quite a pile of paper and pages.
So spin on by the Dirty Rain site and see what all the buzz is about, and I completely promise that there will be eventual updates to all of the other projects at some point in the future. I cannot possibly be that lazy or distracted, right?
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