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Idea Remix

Idea Remix

Sometimes you get up feeling completely lousy. Sometimes you get up thinking you’re being chased down by a bear. And sometimes you get up and all your best ideas don’t seem very good at all. On Saturday, I woke up thinking that everything I’ve thought of for Singapura is actually trash. On Sunday, I woke up thinking that it’s not all so bad.

Things just happen that way. The one conclusion I can safely draw from this is that Singapura is still far too young and I’m not at all ready to try my hand at writing it. The nice thing though is that I think I’ll eventually have two projects to plunge myself into once I sort it all out. One of them is Singapura, of course, and the other is something a bit more unusual, though I’d like to mess around with it to tell what it actually is first.

That one other thing seems like a pretty tasty idea and I’m going to see if it works out over the next few days. It’s a good note to start the week on, if nothing else.

At the same time, I better start making inquiries on making submissions.

A Few Links

The Tournament of Books is going to begin in a couple of months. [via The Morning News] The book I was rooting for last year suffered an early demise, and I can only hope the same doesn’t happen this year.

I saw this very amusing form of the Monster Manual dressed up like a children’s book here. [via io9] It’s a book called Monster Isle by Jeff Miracola. Actual link. [via Monster Isle] I think I’m going to try to find it at a local bookstore.

You can get a free download of The Rake’s Song from the Decemberists upcoming album The Hazards Of Love if you just follow this link. [via The Decemberists] It is a very traditional folktale weaved into a decidedly folk arrangement. Very nice stuff. Not for the kids.

On Saturday, I came across Nikki Farquharson’s site Random Got Beautiful, which is a sort of image mashup based on colours. [via Random Got Beautiful] I thought it was a great site, and so thus the link.

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