Adrien Litton

If past is prolog, they're just fighting amongst themselves over how to divvy up the spoils they've already stolen from us.

This boxing day I will be finishing the chapter I started today and spending the rest of the day researching agents who would have taken a chance on William Gibson if they'd been around 40 years ago. (Otherwise known as the typical start of a long weekend.)

Well, obviously, because the sandworm doesn't have hands. 🙃

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Peter, Paul, and Merry, and Pippin

Been a rough week so far, but getting out of the ER last night diagnosed with a touch of pneumonia helped me connect today with a character just coming out of a coma. #WeeknightWriters

I learned that the third installment of a sci-fi trilogy requires a multi-POV narrative of epic fantasy proportions, which, in turn, requires tapestry level plot weaving. OMG this is hard. But also, awesome. #WeeknightWriters

George Clooney, perhaps the nation's most pre-eminent Dapper Dan man, enjoying a bit of his favored pomade.

Because I think we need to ask the important questions, regardless of potential controversy, here is one for you: If you had lived at the time, and in the circumstances, in which it would have been relevant, would you have been a Dapper Dan man?

As long as it doesn't get me permanently banned from the Woolworths.

#WeeknightWriters Research rabbit hole. I needed a 1 line answer to a simple question: How does a megacorporation of the future profit from the human carnage of neglect and over population? Turns out you can use bacteria and fungi to harvest corpses for minerals. And phosphorous is super lucrative.

#WeeknightWriters After spending most of last week and all weekend plotting and outlining, I finally sat down and wrote the first 2k words of the third installment in my cyberpunk series. Forgot how much fun starting a new project is.

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Whenever I think I have writer's block, I'm reminded of Senator Daniel Boone's response (probably apocryphal) to a reporter's question about whether he ever got lost in the wilderness. Lost? he said, I ain't never been lost. Been a might confused for a day or two.

#WeeknightWriters Now that book one is querying agents, and book two is first-draft complete, the plan is to finish the structural outline of book three and start working on the detailed outline. Feeling like I'm in a pretty good place.

Also, don't care about literary gigantism. A shelf of books in every Hudson News in every airport in the US would make me happy.

I'm 10 chapters (out of 80) from going out on submission. I've got my blurb and synopsis dialed in. I'm a week from being ready to submit to agents. I've also got a first draft of the sequel and dev notes on the closer, plus 30k words into a prequel. What else should I be doing? #WeeknightWriters

Description of cyberpunk Russian assassin.

#WeeknightWriters. Working on draft 4. Took a couple weeks off for... reasons. When I got back to writing I polished this little paragraph.

Neutral Plotter. High-level plot beats to start. Create scene titles to get from beat to beat building scaffolding as i draft. Get stuck in 2nd act. Spin for days- weeks- months? Invent new character with separate plot line. Brings entire story together.

Also released in '73 was American Graffiti. The tag line was: Where Were You In '62? That was 11 years. Imagine being so nostalgic for 2014.

George Romero warned us this would happen.

As I gazed down the inoperable escalator toward the rising sun, the dead began shambling out of the Foot Locker on the first floor...

Subverts Schrodinger by opening box prematurely. Kitten for the win.

Perfectly bookends the train station opener. The end brings us right back to the beginning. Obscure insignificance->silent tension->powder keg ready to blow. Also, that fly wrangler deserved an Oscar.

Well, in his defense... forget it. There is no defense. We might as well call it the Department of Toxic Masculinity and Unchecked Aggression.

Counterpoint - America bringing our own Palpatine back should have been narratively impossible and is incredibly lazy storytelling. Just because life imitates art, it doesn't make it good art. 🙃

We must acknowledge that the getaway driver is the registered owner of the vehicle in question and obeyed many traffic laws on the way to the robbery. While we may not agree with some of his actions following his arrival at the bank, we must acknowledge that vehicle registration has consequences.

As God is my witness, I really thought turkeys could fly.

That excerpt was 2 sharp rights and a left. "I thumbed through the mysterious cryptic journal. I recited the strangely melodic incantation scrawled within. Suddenly... the neighbors cranked up the hi-fi." Banging. Just totally banging.

Thank you for making a simple door very happy.

Decades ago in a bar in New Orleans, an acquaintance who was my age but wore a fedora and chewed on an unlit pipe which made him seem wise, gave me some writing advice: In your first scene, kick your character square in the nuts and then spend the rest of the story watching him get up. Still tracks.

I used to doom scroll Twitter and my outlook was bleak. Now I dream scroll Bluesky and my outlook is slightly less bleak.

"The last time I checked," Nya yelled into the comm, leaning hard on the throttle, "computer hacking didn't involve being chased by flying murder machines."