Yes! Just finished the rough draft of my novelette, Skimmer. I got juiced up on espresso last night and finished up several scenes that were hanging. I wrote well into 2 AM and feel really great about how the story has shaped up.
The general plot revolves around cybernetic prostheses, neural interfacing with a pre-ai computer program, and the indomitable human spirit. Assisted high speed running is something I've been mentally kicking around for some quite time. The story took several weeks to write--not too shabby considering I have a 'day' job and I'm an active parent of 6 year old twin girls.
While procrastinating these scenes, I had already done some editing so expecting my current edit to go quickly. Skimmer curently weighs in at 13k words so I might have to gut some stuff to meet magazine submission limits.
Like 200 million other Americans I'm trying to look at some way to understand this ridiculous economic bailout bill thats being written. Lawmakers say the public doesn't understand the complexity of the problem, there is an absolute need to give 700 billion in taxpayer dollars to the greed mongers of Wall street who pushed the housing market into the abyss.
My prediction is 700 $Billion is just the tip of the iceberg. Regardless of what conditions are imposed, the gamblers at Wall Street will figure a way to game the bill and maximize their own profit. The taxpayer public will then have to throw more money at the problem until some sort of reform is implemented.
Screw that, let the market correct itself.
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