song sketches

My friend Don has a blog, and he posted there recently that he hasn’t written songs in a while, but now he has a bunch of new songs starting to come together. This was interesting to read, since I’m in a similar position in some ways (not counting the part about being a dad, and not counting the part about Don’s singing voice feeling good, and… okay, not that similar).

But similar in that I was steaming along for a while, writing a lot of mysteries in a pretty short amount of time, but now I have stopped for the moment, mostly because I’m working on putting together a book (a collection of the first round of mystery stories, in fact).

There are more mysteries coming (I have beginnings for at least three new ones, one of which even has an ending, too), but there is only so much time and attention in a day, so the new stories are percolating around in the background while I work on the book. One of them will be pretty challenging, since it will be the first really hypertext-y mystery story, maybe even more three-dimensional than Carly.

So, we’ll see how they go. Maybe I’ll start one pretty soon (if I can figure out which one should go first).

I’m not a dad, as I said, but there are times I’ve felt like one since Ron entered the lives of the intrepid detective and her loyal assistant. Marshall is having to figure out how to be a dad (and with less advance warning than most dads get), complicated by the fact that his daughter arrived having had a long and complex history in her twelve years, most of which Marshall knows very little about.

But he’s going to start to learn more in one of the new stories.