Out of Schenectady

Ok, this question may result in my summary lynching by some of my friends and family as well as any other writers who happen to read it, but I'm curious... with all the articles written about writers block, why is it that there don't seem to be any articles written on what to do when you have too many ideas to work on at once all clamoring to be written at the same damned time?

I know that this is perhaps an uncommon problem, as the main question asked of most successful writers (other than "Do you know Stephen King?") is "Where do you get your ideas from?", as if there were an eldritch art which once learned could be used to pluck the glimmering skeins of new stories whole from the ether. My problem has never been finding ideas, however... when I have experienced writers block, it has always come as a lack of impetus rather than a lack of ideas for stories. There have always seemed to be too many stories left untold for me to complain of not being able to come up with an idea for a story. Why not weave a tale of Hope, still left locked in Pandoras's box rather than loosed upon the world? Why not a tale of a boy born to be King in a country which knows no Kings, in an age when the sovereignty of the Land has been forgotten... a ruler only the Land itself shall recognize and take for its own? Why not a tale of the fine new homes that elementals and nature spirits might find in the gleaming metal and fiberoptics of the world of computers... a tale which blurs the line between cyberspace and Faerie? Why not tell a tale of the Spirits of Cities, sleeping restlessly and poised to Awaken and make their heart's known to those who inhabit them? Or a tale of misty dragons which cavort with the newest human-born children of the sky? These are less than a handful of the tales which wait to be told. And there are countless more, clamoring for someone to bring them to life once and again and again.

Call them refugees from Schenectady.

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I am becoming seriously addicted to alternative news sources... I've been checking alternet, underreported, disinfo, and yellowtimes on a daily basis and am adding other sites to my favorites collection currently since these sites just don't [can't] update at the same pace as the mainstream news. Considering that I'm the type who, for years, only read the newspapers for the comics this is a rather big change which I blame entirely on Dusk... well, maybe not entirely. ;) Ri and Aine and everyone else who was posting alternative news coverage of the beginnings of the war in Iraq certainly influenced this change in me as well. I'm not complaining, I rather like it actually... it's certainly broadening my knowledge of the world and current events.

Public Domain

I've been reading some interesting articles on the public domain tonight... articles concerning the Eldred v Ashcroft decision, and the Eldritch Press website, and Eldred's new campaign to try to enhance the public domain in another way. It's quite interesting, and I think people might want to check it all out. It's not a perfect solution, but it might be a workable compromise. At any rate, all of the material is interesting and informative.

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/copyrights_and_wrongs.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/articles/eldredprimer_100902.htm

http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/

http://www.eldred.cc/

Oh, and on a completely unrelated point... I'm gather together some of my old books and things that I no longer have any use for, but which others might enjoy. I seem to have more of them lying around than I realized. I'll be sorting through them and figuring out which ones I don't want anymore, and which ones of those are still in decent condition, and I'll be offering them for sale on half.com. When they're up, I'll post the url here for people to browse through and see if they're interested in anything. Most of the prices should be quite reasonable, I think.