…Shadows and Fog

 The process is going smoothly, if for no other reason my brain has decided that there is no turning back now. I’ve made a great lunge at the heart of writing with my new project, the Maelstrom, hoping to twist the knife further and draw some blood. Of course, this could also turn into of the biggest literary disasters of the early 21st Century, but at this point I’m not paying much attention to that. As this year has worn on, and my appetite for Big Books grew, I finally felt confident that I could write something of a significant size and breadth. By the end of this writing process, I will have written something at least 4-5 times as long as the Marianas Trench. But length is not the obsession here: structure is. It’s difficult at this time to say what effect reading Pynchon’s “Against the Day”, Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon”, and Roberto Bolano’s “2666″ have had on this current writing, but in essence I believe I’m really only expanding on some of the key ideas from my previous book that I hope to have available for mass consumption soon, whether it be through my website, self-publishing, or crazy publisher who likes weird little books.

In saying all this, the project is still at least a couple years from being complete…Even though as I write this I’m on the cusp of being half done the first draft. By the time I’m finished, the book, like everything else in this world, will be something different entirely. The transformative aspect of writing is what has me excited about this project, and what it will eventually turn into.  Strangeness is afoot….out there and in here. More later…