Hey all 🙂 long time since I blogged on my Doings Of Note. Sadly, real life has a way of derailing these things. I’m really going to try and update this thing more often, even if it’s just hair-metal video-clips and vague absurdities.

I try my best to keep stupid non-writing stuff away from this site and on my social media. The end result is a paucity of updates on the Fisch-Blog, and a near constant stream of puns and dodgy pictures everywhere else.  

Anyways, onto the shareholder report. Here is what is going on at Fisch-Tech Enterprises (ie my comfy chair and laptop). Following the launch of my zombie-tastic short story collection “Everything Is A Graveyard”, I found that I’ve largely abandoned short form writing. Don’t get me wrong, I regret nothing, and learned a lot of things from working on shorter pieces. At some point, every journeyman writer should try to encapsulate a SF idea in flash fiction form.

In recent months though, I’ve found that I can’t write in anything shorter than novella length. I’m naturally leaning towards beefier slabs of writing, with the leisure to develop characters, let them drive the story, and take it into weird and wonderful directions that my poor outlines don’t expect. It’s nice to feel comfortable working on longer pieces, and I’m no longer a slave to the Take Over the World Now! mindset that drove me circa 2007 or so.

Case in point – the current novel (tentatively named “Wipe”) didn’t even exist as a concept until about a month ago.  It was driven by a radio commercial, a workmate’s fear of not having done much with her life, and a whole bunch of random internet wool-gathering. When the last bit fell into place, my creative flywheels started spinning, and just like that the first 6 chapters have fallen out of my head. In about a fortnight.

I love the characters like they’re real people, and find the setting compelling enough that I constantly want to go back, to reveal just that little bit more of it. Each day, I simply can’t wait for my next writing session. That’s not work, friends, that’s Loving the Gig That You’ve Got.

It is so nice just to revel in the sheer joy of writing again. To put aside all of that knife-gripped-in-the-teeth results-driven creativity, and just have a ball. I feel sad that I forgot this feeling for so long, but it’s sure nice to have it back.

In closing, I give you this video of animals caught stealing. Peace out, y’all!