On Saturday it threatened rain. On Sunday the rains came. Today, the rain continues. I look outside the sixth floor window, and rivulets of water run down the blue glass. York Road looks distant in the gloom.<\/p>\n
A subway train broke down this morning in the tunnel. My train sat at West Cold Spring, the last stop above ground, for a good twenty minutes. A breeze blew through the train — the doors were left open — and a light rain fell against the windows. I had my clipboard of notebook paper out, and I wrote out some of the third chapter of “THOD<\/a>.” None of it was right, I knew, and I was more interested in the sight of seagulls circling overhead than I was with a young boy bicycling through his hometown.<\/p>\n However, a character that I wasn’t expecting appeared on the page. He’s a minor character, a neighbor. If this were a movie made ten years ago, I imagine he would have been played by Ray Walston (Boothby from Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i>‘s “The First Duty” or Richard Kiley (Shazzerd the Martian from Star Trek<\/i>‘s “Requiem for a Martian”). I “saw” his backstory, and I “saw” how his story ends, either in this chapter or in the fifth or sixth.<\/p>\n In any event, I have material enough to work with tonight when I get home.<\/p>\n I can’t ask for more on a dismal day like this, really. *shrug*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday it threatened rain. On Sunday the rains came. Today, the rain continues. I look outside the sixth floor window, and rivulets of water run down the blue glass. York Road looks distant in the gloom. A subway train broke down this morning in the tunnel. My train sat at West Cold Spring, theContinue reading “On Writing in Dismal Weather”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[691,690,4102],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-requiem-for-a-martian","tag-thod","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}