Alvaro Zinos-Amaro: \ Monkey Business \

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Iris Murdoch // The interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. - Isaac Asimov // The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson // A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu // Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. - Friedrich Nietzsche // The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. - Francis Bacon // Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. - Soren Kierkegaard // The possible ranks higher than the actual. - Martin Heidegger //

Sunday, April 11, 2010

\ Monkey Business \

Date: 04/11/2010

Wordcount Since Last Update: 13,180

Work in Progress: 2010 Story # 03

Year-To-Date Wordcount: 32,270

Since the last writing-related update I've ...

Finished the year's second story. In its third version, which I innocently thought was to be the final one, it came in just above 9,000 words; in a fourth version, now submitted to the Writers of the Future, I trimmed it down to a little over 8,300 words.
Have made a start on the third story, which is mapped out.
Revised three earlier stories, now in the submission rounds.
Wrote and submitted a new review, covering the first Japanese SF novel I've ever read (in translation, naturally).

The path forward is to push on with the third story and have it finished within the next couple of weeks.

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