Progress report - Seer II and other things

I'm about to close out Act II of Seer II (nope, still don't have a better title). So far I'm right on the schedule I made out for myself . I'm coming up on a scene that'll be pretty hard for me to write. Don't get me wrong, it'll be a great scene, but it's going to be kind of traumatic. A character makes a choice--it turns out to be the right choice, but it's pretty final. If that makes any sense. Anyways, I like this character, specifically because he is the kind of guy who would do something like this, but still . . . anyway, it's something I've been planning to do all along and it'll be great. If I can pull it off.

As far as the new song cycle I wrote about previously, A Distant Sun, I still may do a few tunes in that, but ideas have been coming to me about it and I may actually write it as a novel. I want to finish Seer II first, but once the first draft is done it won't take me all that long to polish it up and rewrite that into something sort of coherent. Leaving me free to get started on this next thing.

And I'm not really crazy about the title of A Distant Sun either--maybe I can come up with something a little better. It's going to be scifi/horror--or maybe, more properly, horror with science fictional elements--so maybe something will occur to me in the next little while. In the mean time I'm getting all sorts of ideas for the plot, characters, setting, all that, so my subconcious is apparently a bit obsessed with this idea. Hopefully it'll stay obsessed long enough for me to write the damned thing.

We'll see. I think, if I manage to get this thing written, that it'll be pretty good. Hopefully it'll be pretty scary. That's the goal, anyway--how long is it been since you've read something that you found truly scary? I mean fiction, not the news or anything. And I mean scary, not grossed out or horrified. People seem to have forgotten what that's like--most horror movies these days seem to go for the gross out or the startle, not for the growing sense of fear and identification with the characters that is necesary for something to be really scary. Not that I blame the folks who write these things--that's very hard to do. Next to humor, horror is one of the hardest things to write effectively.

Anyways, if you care, that's where I am right now with all this.