Miscellany

The more things I need to do that have nothing to do with writing fiction, the more I want to write fiction. 

I should be working on:

a) documents for contract negotiation
b) the presentation for my out-of-town speaking gig Saturday
c) the by-law revisions for an organization I'm in
d) number-crunching survey results for said organization's recent membership poll

Instead, I'm bouncing back and forth between "Dark Sun of Desire" and "Trinity," this stream-of-consciousness nonlinear (even more so than usual) Zeke 'fic I abandoned months ago.  Is it weird that of all the incarnations of Camus-Zeke-Sirius, I like Zeke the best?  Maybe it's because Camus "dies" and Sirius is just a disguise, but I can assume that Zeke just goes home and lives out his life with Teeta and a bunch of old memories, thereby turning the amnesiac persona into an integrated and meaningful persona.  Yeah, Nyna's bound to show up at some point in the intervening decades, but Camus-as-Zeke has a chance at a life.  Camus-as-Camus is some dead dude in the history books.  And dollars to donuts, those history books don't tell the half of it. 

Also, he and Alm can look forward to a neat relationship, since they're both really outsiders to Rigel and its culture and Alm knows even less about it than Zeke.  And Alm is pretty well-adjusted and a cool kid all around and will get over the whole patricide thing eventually.  Yep!