May 23, 2002
Arcologies
Been doing a lot of research today on arcologies -- it's been a slow work day. I'm having a rather mind-expanding experience here, putting together my own futuristic civilization for the cyberpunkish story mentioned below (sorry, no title yet, it's not much more than a glimmer in my eye at this point). I made some notes over lunch. I may just have the beginnings of a novel here. I know that arcologies have sort of become a standard in cyberpunk, possibly to the point of triteness. Still... the cyberpunk arcology doesn't have much in common with the theory. Did you know there is a working prototype arcology right here in the U.S.? The theory itself is fascinating. Paolo Soleri is as much philosopher as architect.
I haven't decided if my world is our world in the future or not, but the question that keeps coming to my mind is this: given the events of September 11th, how likely is it that our descendants will want to build huge, enormously tall buildings with internal ecosystems within which to live? Holy cow, that gives me an idea!
Dry spell
*sigh* I am having a dry dry week as far as writing goes. I'm spending my mornings feeling drained and really tired. This hasn't been a problem before, but this week I started trying to avoid going to Starbucks every day in an effort to economize a little (as well as to try and cut out all the sugar I was eating in the morning). It's enough to make me wonder if there really IS something magical in the air there. Of course, it could also be because I've been staying up too late playing EverQuest all week.
Discipline, I need discipline...
I found a snippet of a cyberpunk-ish story that I wrote last summer. It's not much more than a couple hundred words, but I've got some neat ideas brewing there. I also did spend part of yesterday morning looking over "Heaven's Orphans". There's story there, I just can't figure out how to dig it out. It's highly frustrating.
Write Club tonight. I really need it.
