A month ago, I learned of a forthcoming open-call anthology with a rather unique subject matter.<\/p>\n
I read about it, thought it was a neat idea, printed off the submission guidelines, and then did very little.<\/p>\n
Oh, I spitballed a few ideas on the train one morning, filled a whole sheet of notebook paper with little half-blurbs of possible ideas.<\/p>\n
One I liked a great deal, because the more I thought about it the more potential I saw in it. I saw depth<\/i> to this idea, and thus I loved it even more.<\/p>\n
Then I did ten minutes of research. And discovered that two people who I thought were near contemporaries (within a decade or two at most) were, in fact, separated by 150 years.<\/p>\n
Obviously, the idea needed a rethink.<\/p>\n
An idea did<\/i> suggest itself. The century and a half could actually work; perhaps the story would be best served by exploring the things we think<\/i> we know (near contemporaries) with what is real<\/i> (that 150 years thing). But I wasn’t sold on that, and I thought about some of the other ideas that I’d dismissed.<\/p>\n
Still, I downloaded a book for research purposes from Google Books, and I found another researchy book at Edward R. Hamilton<\/a> for very cheap.<\/p>\n And then I didn’t think about anything at all<\/i>; the past month has been somewhat hectic.<\/p>\n The book from Edward R. Hamilton arrived yesterday. I read a little of it in bed last night.<\/p>\n This morning, the story practically screamed<\/i> at me on the train.<\/p>\n I wrote a page of notes. Something I thought would be important I ditched entirely. The whole century and a half thing disappears by ditching that aspect I thought was important. In so doing, some new angles suggested themselves.<\/p>\n And now I see theme. I didn’t see theme before.<\/p>\n I don’t have the time to write this just yet. I have some research still to do, like finish the two books, one downloaded, one bought. And I should take a look at some history books, too. But I also have other writing that’s screaming at me — and is also more pressing and more important.<\/p>\n That said, I am coming back to this story, before the end of the month.<\/p>\n For right now, I shall call it “TSS.”<\/p>\n It’s going to be really cool. And that’s all I have to say about that. :spock:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A month ago, I learned of a forthcoming open-call anthology with a rather unique subject matter. I read about it, thought it was a neat idea, printed off the submission guidelines, and then did very little. Oh, I spitballed a few ideas on the train one morning, filled a whole sheet of notebook paper withContinue reading “On Simmering Stories”<\/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":[4102],"class_list":["post-5605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605","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=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}