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I finished a thing, and there's a link associated with that.
I actually don't have all that long to type here, since we've got to get to a mechanic for Katie's car and then I gotta help with a food drive at a local convention. I'll have the evening free, but I'll probably forget by then, so I'm just going to post now, instead.
First, the link.
http://thanatos02us.blogspot.com/
Second, why I'm posting the link.
That's the blog that I was working on a while ago and the resulting posts never materialized. There are good reasons for that, I assure you, but there's no ignoring the fact that I said I was gonna be doing a thing and then never actually got around to it.
I'm extremely rusty on anything approaching academic writing, so once I had started, I had to go back and keep coming back to it, trying to figure out why what I had written wasn't quite right. Even now, I'm not really sure it's where it needs to be - in my opinion, it's probably reached the point where I'd be comfortable calling it a rough draft, but it's also a post made to Blogger (and, incidentally, Tumblr) and nobody is really going to comment on it, though I imagine I'll get at least a few people who bothered to read it.
The premise is that genre writing is rarely taken seriously, and I feel that one of the hurdles of cyberpunk as a genre is that it's somewhat pigeonholed as universally dystopian literature, and that reading with that label stuck on it kind of flattens the world and makes critical reading that much more difficult.
It's obviously not the only thing I'm going to write, either about cyberpunk or on media as a whole, but at least now that's off my desk and I can go on to work on the next thing.
First, the link.
http://thanatos02us.blogspot.com/
Second, why I'm posting the link.
That's the blog that I was working on a while ago and the resulting posts never materialized. There are good reasons for that, I assure you, but there's no ignoring the fact that I said I was gonna be doing a thing and then never actually got around to it.
I'm extremely rusty on anything approaching academic writing, so once I had started, I had to go back and keep coming back to it, trying to figure out why what I had written wasn't quite right. Even now, I'm not really sure it's where it needs to be - in my opinion, it's probably reached the point where I'd be comfortable calling it a rough draft, but it's also a post made to Blogger (and, incidentally, Tumblr) and nobody is really going to comment on it, though I imagine I'll get at least a few people who bothered to read it.
The premise is that genre writing is rarely taken seriously, and I feel that one of the hurdles of cyberpunk as a genre is that it's somewhat pigeonholed as universally dystopian literature, and that reading with that label stuck on it kind of flattens the world and makes critical reading that much more difficult.
It's obviously not the only thing I'm going to write, either about cyberpunk or on media as a whole, but at least now that's off my desk and I can go on to work on the next thing.