Something I Can Complete
So I've got projects up the wazoo. So what.
I'll tell you why.
Step 1.) I'm bored.
Step 2.) I think of something that will interest me.
Step 3.) I start that thing.
Step 4.) I lose interest in said thing.
Step 5.) I'm bored.
Step 6.) I think of something... and so on ad infinitum.
Notice how "I finish said thing" is not on the list. We're still working on that one.
So I made a project that is un-finishable. It will be complete whenever I'm not working on it. In fact, it's complete right now. Ok, so fine. I didn't make the project, David did. David Livens. From Britain. (All my good ideas come from overseas. Don't say I didn't tell you.)
Before you don't get excited, let me use some of his words to describe what I'm trying to say. Because it's his idea, not mine, and I don't know if I understand it completely yet myself. So.
Dave says : "I didn't do this for ANY reason. I'm doing it because I don't write. I don't write anything and that's ridiculous. So I decided to write ANYTHING, and this is it. Adam is doing it because like me, he needs the motivation, and he needs to just write something. If I had a deadline - I would write. Motivating myself, however, seems near impossible. So I write this, and that's it. I have to say, I like what Adam is doing - he's really taking this in a different direction and I'm pleased that his style is shining through, that's important. "
Basically, the project is a collection of vignettes from the point of view of a man whose present is our future...about fifteen years in the future. So at any point, whenever I stop working on it, it will still be a collection of vignettes...and therefore will be complete. However, I do have to goal to at least give you some cohesive sense of his world and time and how it makes him different from us (if at all).
Another thing...there's no retroactive editing. Ever. Once something is posted, it's in its final form. Just like life.
If you want to read mine, it's here. WARNING, adult language and adult themes. Don't read it unless you can deal with the fact that I wrote it.
And Dave's is here. Read his too.
I'll tell you why.
Step 1.) I'm bored.
Step 2.) I think of something that will interest me.
Step 3.) I start that thing.
Step 4.) I lose interest in said thing.
Step 5.) I'm bored.
Step 6.) I think of something... and so on ad infinitum.
Notice how "I finish said thing" is not on the list. We're still working on that one.
So I made a project that is un-finishable. It will be complete whenever I'm not working on it. In fact, it's complete right now. Ok, so fine. I didn't make the project, David did. David Livens. From Britain. (All my good ideas come from overseas. Don't say I didn't tell you.)
Before you don't get excited, let me use some of his words to describe what I'm trying to say. Because it's his idea, not mine, and I don't know if I understand it completely yet myself. So.
Dave says : "I didn't do this for ANY reason. I'm doing it because I don't write. I don't write anything and that's ridiculous. So I decided to write ANYTHING, and this is it. Adam is doing it because like me, he needs the motivation, and he needs to just write something. If I had a deadline - I would write. Motivating myself, however, seems near impossible. So I write this, and that's it. I have to say, I like what Adam is doing - he's really taking this in a different direction and I'm pleased that his style is shining through, that's important. "
Basically, the project is a collection of vignettes from the point of view of a man whose present is our future...about fifteen years in the future. So at any point, whenever I stop working on it, it will still be a collection of vignettes...and therefore will be complete. However, I do have to goal to at least give you some cohesive sense of his world and time and how it makes him different from us (if at all).
Another thing...there's no retroactive editing. Ever. Once something is posted, it's in its final form. Just like life.
If you want to read mine, it's here. WARNING, adult language and adult themes. Don't read it unless you can deal with the fact that I wrote it.
And Dave's is here. Read his too.
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