Week 36 of 2018
I’m at Brewbaker’s watching the Mississippi State game. Sure, the people in Kansas are calling it the Kansas State game, but my parents both went to MSU and both of my dad’s parents taught there.
So. More Cowbell!!!
Actually, tomorrow is one of my national holidays, the real opening day of the NFL season. A buddy of mine who is a Carolina fan and I will probably find a place to give each other hell while the Cowboys and Panthers play. I’m so ready for this year.
One quick programming note before I get into the work I’ve done this week. I’ve decided that I will move my update back to Friday and I’ll start doing my interviews on Monday. Right now, I’ve got my three regular blog entries back-to-back-to-back. Yes, I’m still late this week, but I think it will work better spreading that out.
Anyway, it was a week of getting small things done for me, mostly around the house. I’m in that stage where I’m fighting to corral a bunch of ideas in The Feeding of Sorrows, which often means I procrasticlean. Since we’re still not completely unpacked, I have plenty to do. I made progress on all of the major remaining unpacking areas.
I also did a bunch of writing, but it’s all in the way of a scene here and random tossing words at the page. In books where I have a number of different threads, like Brief Is My Flame, I’m discovering that I tend to write each thread separately and then fit it all together. I’m only up to about 15,000 or so, but momentum is building.
I also started another short story that another anthology has requested. I’d been struggling with the idea for a while but an idea popped into my head last night and I did a bunch of research this morning. I only wrote about 500 words so far, but the story is basically written in my head. I love it when that happens.
Current Playlist Song
The NFL films song is playing on an ad. I’m so ready for this season. Did I mention that?
Quote of the Week
Speaking of football, on this day 130 years ago, twelve teams played their first matches in the Football League. These teams included Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The idea was the brainchild of William McGregor and today’s quote is from his letter to the managers of those teams.
“I beg to tender the following suggestion as a means of getting over the difficulty: that ten or twelve of the most prominent clubs in England combine to arrange home-and-away fixtures each season, the said fixtures to be arranged at a friendly conference about the same time as the International Conference.”
– William McGregor
One side note, the Football League was by no means the first professional league in England. The earliest we know of was a cricket league in the early 1600s. But that’s something for a different day.
News and Works in Progress
- RTM (496)
- The Feeding of Sorrows (approx. 15,000)
- CB (8,418)
- AFS (2,556)
Recent Blog Posts and Wiki Additions
- Interview (Cameron S. Currie): https://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1370
- Magazine Review (Fantastic Universe, March, 1955): https://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1373
Upcoming Events
- 8 September, King’s Companie of Archers, Smithville, MO
- 15-16 September, TopCon, Topeka, KS
http://www.topcon.us/ - 8 December, Kris Kinder, Kansas City, MO https://sites.google.com/site/kriskindermarket/
- 9-16 March, Gulf Wars, Lumberton, MO
http://www.gulfwars.org/ - 22-24 March, FantaSci, Raleigh, NC
http://fantasci.rocks/fantasci/
Spotlight
This week’s spotlight was on Cameron S. Currie, a writer I met at Ad Astra a couple of years ago. You can find the interview here: https://robhowell.org/blog/?p=1370 and his web site is at http://cameronscurrie.ca/.
Today’s Weight: 383.2
Updated Word Count: 185,518
Shijuren Wiki: 874 entries
Four Horsemen Wiki: 394 entries
Let me know if you have any suggestions on the website, this email, or cool story ideas at rob@robhowell.org. Especially let me know of suggestions you have for the Spotlight section.
Have a great week, everyone.
Rob Howell
Author of the Shijuren-series of novels
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- A Lake Most Deep (Edward, Book 1)
- The Eyes of a Doll (Edward, Book 2)
- Where Now the Rider (Edward, Book 3)
- I Am a Wondrous Thing (The Kreisens, Book 1)
- Brief Is My Flame (The Kreisens, Book 2)
- None Call Me Mother (The Kreisens, Book 3) Forthcoming 2018
- “A Gift of Crimson” in Hand of Gold and Other Stories (Pussy Katnip)
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