Here we go. Here’s what’s going out.
Here’s the party, guv.
Here’s… something.
Target: 1000 words
Written: 1576 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success, Carol Dweck
Comics: The Boys 63-66
Music: An Unknown Album Of Angry Punks Singing About Black Flag That Shazam Doesn't Recognize, by Who The Fuck Knows?All done.
There’s still some afterwork and maintenance to be done, but hell, by this time next week, I’ll be compiling a list of agents/publishers to send this bitch to.
Good night.
Target: 1000 words
Written: 885 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: The Sorrows Of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Comics: The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker 6, The Boys 60-62
Music: Bootleg Nirvana 90-01-06 Seattle, Nirvana, I guess, probablyNo time for love, Dr. Jones.
This should be epic (and probably not be done today).
Intense concentration incoming.
So we pray. Bring on the Patti Smith and the Kurt Cobain. Gonna need all the classics for this level of focus.
Target: 1000 words
Written: 9100 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: The Sorrows Of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Comics: The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker 2-5
Music: Nirvana, NirvanaFalling into skyrocketing blood pressure.
It’s like being so drunk you lose all balance and suddenly, tip sideways into the snow, but you’re stuck in the moment where balance fails and you’re just about to tip uncontrollably…
Without even the good time first.
Well, technically. I’m sure the abuse I put my body through was a good time at the time. I just don’t remember any of it.
Target: 1000 words
Written: 1549 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: I'll Be Gone In The Dark, Michelle McNamara
Comics: The Boys 57-59, The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker 1
Music: Ninety-Nine-Double-Oh Demos, Local H (most underrated grunge band ever?)And already, it seems like it might have been smarter to throw myself headfirst down the stairs.
Fuck me.
Target: 1000 words
Written: 1649 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: I'll Be Gone In The Dark (I Wish), Michelle McNamara
Comics: The Boys 53-56
Music: Nina Simone Essentials, Nina Simone (probably the only good thing that'll happen all day)Motherfucker, that was cold. Not 2014 Winter Classic in -20 Celsius at the Big House in Ann Arbor for eight hours cold, but still.
Bitter wind.
I still can’t believe those college kids, ripping their shirts off and spinning them, bare-chested, for almost an entire period. Or those girls, in micro-mini skirts and six-inch stilettos, stumbling through crusted snow.
How any of them got through that without hypothermia or the loss of a digit or nipple is beyond me.
Good drugs, I guess.
They may have lost their nipples, but they sure didn’t feel it.
Target: 1000 words
Written: 1813 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: I'll Be Gone In The Dark, Michelle McNamara (which could have been the name of The Mungk as well; I can't believe she stole it)
Comics: The Boys 49-52
Music: Nimrod, Green DayTechnically, it’s the Dresden Night Market, but whatever. It snowed all day yesterday and is slated to all day today and tomorrow and the next and the next, etc., etc., etc., until climate change murders us all.
Assuming our new fascist overlords don’t get there first. My hope is that Trump’s ego pisses off the rich and they start using their influence to fuck him over.
But for now, it’s winter markets and praying the world doesn’t collapse before I get a chance to finish all that I desire to do.
It’s just too goddamn bad I decided to leave the starting line after most people have already run the race.
Target: 1000 words
Written: 1559 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: I'll Be Gone In The Dark, Michelle McNamara
Comics: The Boys: Highland Laddie 4-6, The Boys 48
Music: Night Time, Killing JokeThe Mungk should be finished in ten to fourteen days.
Then, onto the scarier phase – trying to fucking sell it.
Writing it is the easy part, compared to all the gladhanding and sending and trying to build audiences and dealing with the constant rejection.
And it’s a lot of rejection.
I think maybe sometimes that the whole universe has looked at me with the most cursory glance and said, nah. Not interested.
Dismissed out of hand by god.
The question is do we disappear, or do we get pissed and say, oh yeah? Look at me now, while smashing everything around them.
How you like me now?
Target: 1000 words
Written: 1173 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: I'll Be Gone In The Dark, Michelle McNamara
Comics: The Boys 47, The Boys: Highland Laddie 1-3
Music: Night Music, Tones On TailThis is it.
The separation of M.T. Williams and his first grand creation (though not his first creation).
We are on the last draft prior to manuscript.
A dozen misfires and then the final blow.
Kind of exciting, if not also terrifying.
Funny how those two always seem to be in cahoots. Everything exciting should scare the shit out of you, right?
Right?
Hello?
Target: 1000 words
Written: 2040 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: Good Sex, Jessica Graham (not been helpful for focus, but hell on the libido)
Comics: The Boys 43-46
Music: Night Crawlers, White ZombieAnd so, the new prologue and epilogue goes.
Fuck ’em.
They’d make a cool short story in an expanded edition later on (as would the history/future of everyone else involved), but fuck it.
It ain’t relevant to the story of a little boy and the monster that loves him.
Well, love is a strong word.
More like takes malicious pleasure in turning him into another wasted shell of a human being, staggering through life like some kind of George Romero creation, pieces falling off, guts long ago fallen out, dead-eyed stare focused on nothing, save mere sustenance.
But that’s a preview, and we only do previews for good boys and girls, and expansion for the truly sexy beasts.
Target: 1000 words
Written: 355 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: Good Sex, Jessica Graham
Comics: The Boys 39-42
Music: Nico, Blind Melon (talk about sexy)