Crystalvox Full Spectrum

[FriNn]

They Never Write
(Reposted from the March 1 rant)


Hi, everyone. Chris here.

Some folks have emailed wondering if we have gone the way of Trampier draconis, a species not known if it is alive or extinct. 'Cause it's been five months since you heard from us on this site. Well, we are both alive and well, so now you all can feel free to kill us.

A writer's block sometime in September cascaded into family crisis/election-year/anxieties/activities all of which resolved pretty well by late December, and then it's been catch-up on various other parts of my life since then. Not that that excuses my silence in all media the whole time. I was trusting the slowness of the Southampton-to-Calcutta packet to become my alibi, but I have been discovered. Apologies all round.


General Review of What's Up Already

The forums have been frozen out to new subscribers since October, because of superspamosity. I'll have emailing instructions up soon explaining how to activate any Actual Accounts from Humans, assuming I maintain any recollection of what keeping promises is like, and assuming anyone new actually wants to join before more strips rematerialize.


Further Information, the GM's supplement for CºNTINUUM, has finally sold out. How ever will we break the news to Amazon. Our long-suffering co-author on the game, Dave Fooden, has discussed with us the possibility of putting some of the books online, possibly as a compilation.


And in case you feel I need an intervention... I got one at Dreamation, over the Axe In My Head boardgame. People really want to see this made, and I was confronted by a friendly but frustrated potential customer. Truth is, we're unlikely to have the resources to make the game ourselves in the short term; I have always known this, it has never been an "Aetherco" production, and Dave and I have been trying to sell it to someone who would actually make it. Dave has been the brave point man in foisting it upon everyone from here to Toy Fair. If you'd like to proselytise, please go to boardgamegeek.com, and post your raves there, thus encouraging some game company to pick it up.

It the midst of all my cheerful ineptitude, ICON has chosen to invite me as a gaming guest this year. (Thank the nice man, Chris. Thank you, Mr. Dregg.) Dave and I will be running Axe, I'll be running CºNTINUUM, and we'll even have an alpha of a new (again nonAetherco) boardgame called Scarcity, wherein everyone loses everything.

As for the writer's block, in the last few weeks I've taken up the odd tangent of writing a novel, to give me a different perspective from comics. It seems to be working, and as this post on yamara.com evidences, I am thinking more about the Sargasso of strips I've let lie adrift around the intertubes. The novel is a (mostly) serious SF piece about a castaway in time. This is also helping clear some of my brain-cobwebs over the ever-pending NªRCISSIST, even as more notes for it continue to gather in that plastic Duane Reade bag at the back of my bedroom.


In Summation

I am still attempting to increase the aggregate volume of entertainment I produce. Completing projects has been my life's Achilles heel (which, come to think of it, was Thetis' inability to complete a project on her son) and I have a hard time trying my hand at anything small. Barbara and I are going to complete Yamara: The Working Title War, but we'd like to win it, and that will mean choosing the right time for battles.

In the meantime, stay sane and better the world. Stop back here and at aetherco.com to learn when we're coming round next to mess things up again.

Cheers,

Chris.


PS - Barbara is not frozen in carbonite. Tell Salacious he can stop cackling now. Bar sends greetings to all.

PPS - That Burger King ad featuring the chauvanist parody of Helen Reddy's I Am Woman keeps blipping in and out of airplay in the NYC area; does anyone know if it's in regular rotation elsewhere? Because we do have a Yamara-episode-level response if its been playing more than twice in the past five months, and therefore would be recognized by our contemporaries.
PPS.1 - Guess there's always YouTube.

PPPS - Ralph has asked if he can stop posing for the October wallpaper now. I told him to hold his horses, I'll do it. And Barbara is going to charge him for running the blender all this time.

What? He's made of money!

[Stormcrow]

[Aslaug]

YES...

YES!!!!!!

THERE IS LIFE!

IT LIVES, IT LIVES!!!

*looks above as the conspicuously clear sky refuses to yield a thunderbolt*

Blast it. Now I can't do my patented Evil & Maniacal laughter in a proper setting, which would make Evil & Maniacal more like Sad & Silly.

CURSES...foiled again.

At any rate, I am glad to hear you guys -are- alive and kicking, Chris. I was on the verge of writing you an email a few days ago but...I figured I had already bothered you two enough in the past and you'd probably just get miffed if I sent another one. Glad to see you are alright though.

I will definitely look forward to more Working Title: War stuff coming up.

As for writer's block. I know it...only too well. It sucks. Massively. But it can be beaten.
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"Who me? I always behave. I just don't always behave *well*."

Gabrielle Ryder, chapter 68 of 'Transitions', © Joan Jacobsen, 2005

[Mutiemoe]

Well, it's good to know there will be more Yamara sometime in the future.

[cheshirenoir]

Wow! You are still alive!

Glad I check every now and again...

[cheshirenoir]

Any news?

[cheshirenoir]

Nothing for six whole months

[cheshirenoir]

I hereby annex this newsgroup in the name of ME!

[cheshirenoir]

My conquest is COMPLETE

[Listen2Reason]

...

...*waves little flag*?
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"Crossing into established events is strictly forbidden...except for cheap tricks." --The Doctor
"I'm only Span 1!" --Derek Scott's battle cry
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