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  1. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Anything chronic is nasty business. Sometimes when I can't get started I just make notes or write parts of other scenes or something. Make sure my unconscious knows I'm not really letting it off the hook. Feel better!
  2. MikeKardec

    Vinatge Racing and Vintage Cameras

    Two of my favorite material objects -- http://www.classiccaradventures.com/2010/01/classic-cameras-for-classic-cars/ And also ... These guys do a great job getting that 'historical vibe', one only hopes someone will do the Goodwood Revival the same way, even the costumes in the stands would...
  3. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Just delivered Volume Two (although it's the 3d manuscript in the series) to the publishers. I cannot convey what a relief that is. I always worry my computer will crash and my hard drives will burn up and that I'll drop dead leaving my family without a manuscript. Do not mess with me when...
  4. MikeKardec

    Tramp Steamers

    I loved Andre Norton when I was a kid. It was the first SF I had read where there was a sense of an alien past and of mysteries that were too big to ever be resolved. Very intriguing!
  5. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I used to hate treatments/synopsis really, really, hate them. Now after having to do several in the sort of insane detail I describe above they are starting to grow on me. I still hate them, I have a lot of trouble starting the work and sticking to it, BUT when I do it I really (as you were...
  7. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    I got the final pass, the mechanicals off to the publisher, thank god that's over! Working on getting the first draft of book 3 ready to go to them then it's back to complete the slight reworking of book #2. I'd really love to have these guys all done by July but that might be optimistic ...
  8. MikeKardec

    Disco: The last dying gasp of the Golden Era?

    Interpreting reality from film has always been a challenge. The US has often had a disconnect compared with the rest of the world because in many countries films are funded to a great extent by the government. That does not automatically make them propaganda but most of the "national arts"...
  9. MikeKardec

    Spitfire and the speed of sound

    The Spitfire was also perhaps the most cutting edge interceptor of the prewar era, thus it gets favorably compared to planes like the Mustang that came a bit later but had been developed from the hard lessons of wartime. The Spitfire was so advanced that it wasn't outmoded until the very end of...
  10. MikeKardec

    Disco: The last dying gasp of the Golden Era?

    I'd say you are right about disco "last gasp" or a "harmonic" of the swing era. Arguing that it was "the same" or assuming that this concept means the two times were "the same" is missing the point. Along with many of the things others have brought up, I was always impressed in the similarity...
  11. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Not as impressive as you'd think. As I said their ability to even detect hypocrisy, except where it had been pointed out to them by the established organs of their culture (think, The Daily Show) left a lot to be desired. No one is comfortable finding it in themselves or their...
  13. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Here's an exercise I cooked up for my students back when I was teaching. One of them asked about the key to writing meaningful art and important literature, so I made them work on the following -- The Orwell Exercise -- Identify your tribe, your culture, your society? Who are the people you...
  14. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Fun stuff! I've got a couple of those stories percolating in the back of my brain.
  15. MikeKardec

    Tramp Steamers

    Howard Pease, the author of The Tattooed Man mentioned above, wrote DOZENS of works of "Tramp Freighter" fiction in his time. The stuff can get a bit repetitive and is aimed at a 1930s-1940s youth audience but he was a ship's officer and the details are fantastically accurate. The best place...
  16. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Reading your work aloud, even to yourself, makes you come face to face with it in harshly real ways. If you can read it aloud in public and like it then it is probably pretty damn good ... or you have a VERY healthy ego. Either way, more power to you!
  17. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    College student debt .... arrragh! The bane of my existence. I don't have any, thanks to parents who started investing before I was born, but I am one of the founders of a student mentoring non profit and we have to hear about this all the time. Parents (and students) just refuse to plan...
  19. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Cool. Soon after the war, one of my cousins (much older than myself!) married a Japanese guy in the Grand Island area. I always thought that was sort of remarkable for that time and place only to discover, after some research and a few conversations, that they (the Japanese side of the family)...
  20. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    What's the presentation on?
  21. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Cool ... I've seen the three side by side in a book but I never knew which one was painted when.
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Ellroy is more the literary grandson of Jim Thompson, more baroque than Thompson but I suspect that may be the influence. He plays in Chandler's sandbox but he uses Thompson's voice. That's not fair, Ellroy is very much his own thing but if we have to relate him to his literary progenitors...
  23. MikeKardec

    Irony/Ecstasy

    An interesting story about this hysterical send up of the world of Modernist (or Post Modernist) Art in the style of a classic 1950s UK children's book series...

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