Who let the posts out?
categories:
- “blogging”
- “ramblings”
Greetings dear reader,
Those who might’ve noticed, or data-mined, there’s been a sudden removal of much postage around a single subject. I’m not hoping to do an Andy Weir, but I was working on a book. A book about a girl, a sentient motorcycle, and {something else}. That there’s the problem, those stupid curly-braces, I haven’t a clue yet. The various versions went through several different ways of exposing the world, plot, characters and none are making me happy. Essentially, I read a good book, a book that get’s what I think is the protagonist’s voice just perfect and that motivates me to pick up the pen …and then the ATP runs out, steam condenses, the flywheel slows, and the two spherical weights (brass balls, get it?) slowly descend as their spin slows.
Step 1: I need to look back on my reading list (not really, I know which titles and authors) and buy copies of these inspiring works. Then keep re-reading them.
Phase B: I need to work out some more of the backstory. Like, what’s this sentient motorcycle’s gig? How would, for example, carrying our (human) hero’s butt around the world’s largest racetrack (look it up yerself; thank me later) somehow result in {something else}?
Part III: William Gibson—curse him with every earthly reward he desires including both of my kidneys—may’ve beat me to the punch on the {something else}. Positing the “shed miracle” is hopeless. The lone genius, laboring against neighborly doubt and ridicule, is bullshit. Nothing happens in a vacuum. No one works alone. No one achieves greatness, we achieve greatness. For one thing, great systems achieved today may have an elegant underpinning but the actual doo-dad is so complicated, the result of so much lifespan expended that no one person can do it alone. No one person can even grasp the design. Sure, the Great Leader (or “First Engineer”) has a leg-up on the others because she’s figured out both that “elegant underpinning” and how that scales-up to the doo-dad. And because, in many cases, the elegant underpinning is not at all what you think it is, maybe even out-of-scope to the doo-dad, sometimes the Great Leader really is the only one who “get’s it.” I’m looking at you, Bill Gates. (Once again, look it up: it didn’t start where you think, he didn’t invent what you think, and his “big contributions” have nothing to do with computers.)
Conclusion: I need some more research. I need to test my hypothesis. Whoa, I think I’ve just had a brainwave. I may know who to contact.