flying in the face of science

I think I may have to use song lyrics for all my post titles. This one is from Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing) by Amanda Palmer. Which would, in addition, make a beautiful title for an autobiography or a quantum physics text book.

My friend, Edie, equally pseudonymous and who may on occasion be referred to as Hyena, has a blog dedicated to her writings. This strikes me lately as a good idea, especially since I'm moving gradually into the realms of Vaguely Professional (i.e. I've made a total of about $1000 off my writing in the past three years, which is a step up from zero over the prior eight years of writing and seems like a landmark.)

So, to introduce myself, I write under several different names but when I publish in the mainstream will be using this one; Emele Duncan. This blog will probably be used for either
a) high-brow discussion of the arts and occasional updates on my writing progress,
b) various ramblings about life, the univserse, and everything, or
c) option b interspersed with option a.

Most likely it will be one of the latter. High-brow doesn't come naturally to me.

A quick list of works in progress, in order of their likelihood of being finished;

• two lab reports and three essays for university, which are rather dull
• a short story (under 3000 words) to be used for a competition
• a collaborative novel about surviving a hypothetical World War Three, co-authored with Pilot and Coyote
• a couple of short stories based on the aforementioned collaborative novel
• a novel about werewolves which may be used as the basis for a NaNoWriMo project
• a novel about vampire sekrit agents, about 100,000 has been eaten by MS Word... twice.

Full of excitement, yes?