Year: 2009

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The local (24-screen) theatre isn’t showing Coraline? Are you fucking kidding me, AMC?
Update: They’re only showing the 3-D version, which is annoying, as I think of that as a kind of visual cotton candy that tends to distract from… you know… THE MOVIE.
Seriously, when have you ever been in the middle of watching a good movie and thought, “I wish this were in 3-D. That would make it better.” Never, that’s when.

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For Friday

Reading: Just finished The Zombie Survival Guide (not really a story, but it is at least 55% fiction).
Planning: Coraline tonight. Tearing out and replacing the floor in the “master bath” tomorrow. Gaming? That wouldn’t suck.
Wearing: Jeans and a tiki-god bowling shirt.
Writing: Adrift, template code, and yes-dammit-some-book-revisions.

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An explanation of what’s going on with this Finnras/Adrift thing.

What, if I can ask, are you doing?
The basic idea is to tell a story via serialized flash fiction. Wow, that’s a lot of annoying pop-terminology in a fairly short sentence.
1. I’m posting a story, via twitter.
2. I will make one post a day, advancing the story (allegedly).
3. Each post will be no more than 140 characters in length, due to the way twitter works.

It’s a bit like writing one or two comic panels a day. It’s a bit like haiku. It’s an exercise in saying more with less, and trying to make the thing interesting each day, as well as overall.

It’s actually pretty fun.

I’m collecting the whole thing on a blog. If you want to view it that way, visit the website (Newsreader people can subscribe here.)

Alternately, you can twitter-follow @Finnras to read it in it’s raw, immediate form. There’s also an RSS feed there, which I have no doubt you can locate on your own.

How long will this madness continue?
I have a pretty good idea of what happens for quite some time ahead of where we are at this point in the story. Getting through all that 140 characters at a time will take quite awhile, by which point I might have even more ideas about what happens next.

What I’m saying is this could go on for awhile.

Where did you get such a cool/crazy/stupid idea?
I was inspired by the tales of one Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer and Professional Hero. There’s lots more out there on the internet about twittering short fiction, and that’s all cool, but none of it provided inspiration for this beyond Othar… and a character (Finnras) I invented a few years back and never really got a chance to hang out with.

The setting? Some of the broadest brush strokes within the setting come from the “skeletal setting” provided in Matt Wilson’s Galactic RPG.