Steve’s Update 11/29/2015

Hey all, here’s the latest of what’s up with me!

Sailor Moon Book – Chapter 2 is written – and it was still challenging.  My co-author and I are each writing chapters separately and then exchanging them to edit, so I look forward to her feedback and reading her chapter.  In my case #2 covered the impact of having a show that was unabashedly about women and unabashedly femminine, which revealed some additional subtleties I hadn’t considered – such as the fact the characters were also “normal” increasing the impact.

Next Generator – I finished the breakdown of the Reality Show Generator.  This was an attempt to do actually do a full analysis before writing a complex generator – and apply what I learned not to do during the Plot Twist generator.  The analysis was incredibly useful and I will begin working on the generator next.  The issue?  It was boring, though it worked really well.  Maybe I just need to perfect my techniques.

Creativity Book – The Creativity Book is being moved into edited format now, and I expect to get it to friends and editors in the next week or two.  It’s a challenging write, but it’s one that’s really going to be worth it – because I think I managed to sum up my creative theories and coaching ideas in one small book.  If you find yourself unable to talk to fellow creatives, or in a rut, or wanting to create differently, this one is definitely for you.

Way With Worlds – The book(s) are back from one of my pre-readers, and pre-reading ends tomorrow.  Time for me to do an editing sweep, line up my editor, and line up my cover artist, as well as put it in front of my writing group.    Still aiming to publish both in the summer as well – but not at the same time.  It’ll be one then the other a month or two later, as well as some followup.

Well that’s it.  How’s everything on your end gang?

  • Steve

Linkus Maximums

“If” is a pretty powerful tool for financial planning.  A good bit of advice here “ifs” let you find what you need to do to reach your goals.

Generational Spaceships are an awful unlikely proposal according to Kim Stanley Robinson, though there may be some interesting solutions to the challenges discussed.  Very thought-provoking reading, though for me I say head for the stars no matter what.

Women face barriers to leadership – and we make it too easy to put incompetent men in positions of power.  The Harvard Business review exposes paradoxes of becoming a leader versus being a good one, cultural biases, and more in a thought-provoking piece.

Leaderless resistance is usually doomed to failure – if not a sign of it.  Intriguing piece period, but also relevant if Daesh is shifting to a more distributed network of malcontents – as it seems to be loosing.  Also?  They’re also very, very unpopular among Muslims of the world.

Steve’s Update 11/16/2015

I hope everyone is well after the terrible news last week in Paris, Beruit, and more.  I hope you and yours are well.

I’ve wanted to say something about these terrible attacks, but I’ve found they’ve been said best by my eloquent friend Serdar.  We cannot become what we hate.

With that, a few quick updates.  I’m going to keep it tight due to the tragedy.

  • Way With Worlds should be back from the pre-readers in two weeks.  I’ll be doing a deep-dive edit on it for concept and clarity – and dividing it into two books.  I’m honestly not sure if this’ll be done in December or in January.
  • We’ve written the first chapter of the Sailor Moon book – and it went through some revisions of focus as we did it.  Even though we analyzed each person after their interview, analyzing them together and exploring the major themes takes a lot of work.  The book may still surprise us – well, surprise us more.
  • My upcoming book on creativity – No title yet, and it’s taking longer, but it’s definitely worth it.  It’s going to be a way to identify your creative methods – then try others.
  • Next Generator – Is going to be reality TV shows, but as that one is taking longer as I’m trying some new analysis techniques (that also involve me writing up my findings), I may do an intermediate totally-for-fun crazy one.  You’ve been warned 😉

I hope you’re all well.  Let me know how you’re doing.

  • Steve