It's been a little while since the last post so I thought I'd update things.
Not too much has been happening, however. Medically things are going well with the visits to Leeds. And my foot is doing well with the inserts the podiatrist made. Unfortunately, the orthopaedic surgeon strongly advised having another surgery on my right knee to tighten the 15-year old graft. That will be in August, close to exactly 15 years after the last one. The funny thing was that he told me the surgery was much improved from when I last had it, then proceeded to describe exactly the same procedure. Even the rehab is the same. The only difference will be that the graft is taken from the opposite hamstring, for the obvious reason that taking another graft from the same hamstring would unduly tax that muscle (especially because it never fully recovered due to my negligence with physio).
So, not looking forward to a month of pain/crutches and a year of physio.
In other news... I managed to submit the script originally titled 'Absolute Power'. I changed the title after Charlotte brought it to my attention that AP was also the title of a recent UK political comedy series. Too bad, I really liked the title. Maybe I could sell it in the US?!
Anyway, the BBC has already acknowledged receipt, so now I have up to 4 months to wait for their comments, if any.
I've made the conscious decision to put Mindform Ascension on hold indefinitely. The amount of work the story would take to get it where I wanted it to be was more than my interest level. Originally I started the story only as a fun thing to see if I could finished a novel. Now I can see so many directions it can go in I'm worried it's turning into something completely different from what I wrote. One possibility I'll think about is to rework it into the fun story it seems and save the commentary and philosophical insights for another story. In the meantime I'm going to work on something else...
yep, planning to go back to Gateway finally. I want to start a formal treatise of the Gateway universe so that I have a framework to build a series on. Meanwhile I'll take the advise I received at the First Impressions workshop at Eastercon and try writing some short stories to play with voice and character development. They will be set in the same universe so that I can also develop the Gateway lore.
I'm also planning the next script. One of two ideas, not sure which I'll do yet.
Apart from that, Utility Fog Press has openes submissions for the next anthology: Tales for Travelers, a micro-fiction anthology designed as easy reads for commuters. I'm aiming to publish in e-book formats first, the prepare a POD pocket paperback.
And that really is all for now. Other than the business venture I'm planning... more on that later.
