tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post631870230500794671..comments2023-05-14T21:11:23.699-04:00Comments on CHEESEBURGER BROWN: Story Wallah: The Profiteers, Part 2Cheeseburger Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-85867655483861477172013-07-08T10:59:58.685-04:002013-07-08T10:59:58.685-04:00Hey, we're always up for a journey to the cent...Hey, we're always up for a journey to the center of the Burger. Thank you for keeping the creative process so open to us.<br /><br />By the way, last week while picking up couch cushions, I realized what Dennis is going to do to Miles. This makes him even more a jerk than I initially thought.Sheik Yerboutinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-86829830917586958182013-07-02T21:48:32.255-04:002013-07-02T21:48:32.255-04:00Sheik said,
"Also, Mr. Miss! Is this truly a...Sheik said,<br /><br /><i>"Also, Mr. Miss! Is this truly a "new" story, or a continuation of TSM? Not that we're impatient or anything..."</i><br /><br />Well, you'd be entitled to a bit of impatience.<br /><br />The truth is I put myself through a ridiculous level of internal drama over the dangling posterior of TSM. And in a world where the priority of the output was to serve the art and audience we'd have no problem.<br /><br />Sadly, candidly, the object here is more self-serving. I've recognized that for me writing is theraputic. By "recognize" I mean "forced to recognize" when my wife points out that I'm being excessively assholish and that I probably need the cathartic self-crank of writing.<br /><br />That is to say that for writing to serve this cathartic function it must be real-time -- my larger plots and plans be damned, the subject matter is what the subject matter demands itself to be because that's what my fingers want to type about.<br /><br />So whatever else I may want to write about is predictably subsumed by whatever's eating me today. Today I'm a founding member of a precarious startup and I'm more than a little freaked out about it. So that's where we go, storytelling-wise.<br /><br />Against this noisy present I've, yes, been working on a new story about Mr. Mississauga, because I love Mr. Mississauga and I miss him.<br /><br />He ambushes me, though. This whole time I thought I was working on a Captain Ting/Lady Bethix story but it turned out I was wrong. The scifi crux of the tale, so to speak, belonged itself to Mr. Mississauga by imaginative coersion.<br /><br />I surrender to it. As I surrender to the day to day dramas that end up being stories like this one.<br /><br />Only the keyboard really knows where I'm going next.<br /><br />Which is why I take heart, now and again, at adding a paragraph or two to the "current" chapter of TSM. It'll spill when it spills.<br /><br />TL;DR: The story-in-progress concerning Mr. Mississauga takes place prior to THE EXTRA CARS but after the events of STUBBORN TOWN. <br /><br />(As far the inevitable "How could a contemporary era Mr. Miss mystery map onto a Ting/Bethix far future adventure aboard the good ship 'Dollar'?" the unrepentently impish reply can only be, "In a very interesting way!")<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger BrownCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-55565561832433078712013-07-02T09:59:51.533-04:002013-07-02T09:59:51.533-04:00Where's George Takei for an "oh, my"...Where's George Takei for an "oh, my" when you need one?<br /><br />Somehow this does not surprise me -- and somehow I expect one of these "nobodies" around them to be crucially important to the next part of the plot.<br /><br />Also, Mr. Miss! Is this truly a "new" story, or a continuation of TSM? Not that we're impatient or anything...Sheik Yerboutinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-22589495670255783362013-07-02T00:30:23.410-04:002013-07-02T00:30:23.410-04:00Am greatly enjoying it. And also greatly looking f...Am greatly enjoying it. And also greatly looking forward to the Mr. Mississauga story.psonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-1152933897714536202013-07-01T18:24:51.679-04:002013-07-01T18:24:51.679-04:00Temporally fraudulent! The Enron of all time! Lo...Temporally fraudulent! The Enron of all time! Love it!Smiley Khttp://www.luf.orgnoreply@blogger.com