Not Such a Blank Page

Today I made myself write a short chapter for Jaws of Victory. It ends up being more summation than action, covering a lot of ground for how oen of my principle characters came to be rich beyond the dreams of avarice (in 2061 there aren't many trillionaires but he's one of them).

I feel like I need to be unpacking these things and expanding, showing the action rather than the result, but then the action requires this groundwork.

Some of the literary influences that I think may account for how it's coming out, I think of Max Barry's Company and Terry Southern's The Magic Christian.

The problem is when do I get done summarizing and get on with the story? Practically everything I've written so far is world building like this. At least Max Barry gets on with it and has a conflict over a donut (that, if memory serves, is the central conflict of that fine novel, someone took an extra donut). That's Max Barry for you, he can turn anything into a great novel.

So what am I doing to be like Max Barry? Well, I'm back to blogging apparently (he was doing that before me even), but he wrote Syrup on his lunch breaks, so I'm trying to write every day even if it is another half backed chapter section and a blog post about writing (ugh! if you're reading this, I gotta wonder why you don't make better choices). I wrote today. I don't know if any of it is worthy of publication (I have my doubts), but I fucking did it.