When it comes to topics like freedom, free speech, and protection of creative works (i.e. copyright), there is plenty of emotional outburst available. None of these topics are black and white. None of them are as simple as yes or no. None of them can be answered with child-like tantrums and emotional appeal. What is lacking is rational debate–the ability to consider all facets.

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Last night, I wrote 2K on Twinergy.

Twinergy is my new mainstream fic about two eleven year old twins–both geniuses–who start a new life after being caught by the FBI for stealing credit card data from black market sites and then selling it back to them. Now the two home boys who lived without parents for three years will have to adapt to yuppie life with their new white parents and personal surveillance officer.

Is it awesome? No. Is it writing? Yes! And lots of it. That’s phenominal, considering my word count since last November rivals last night’s output. So here’s chapter one (in the raw) for your perusal…

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I realize you haven’t heard a great deal from me lately. That’s mostly because I’ve been drowning under a mountain of work, partially because I’ve had commitments to fulfill, and mostly because I’ve been too exhausted to think.

I’ve decided it’s well and about time I reclaimed a small portion of my life for me. I’ve shaken things up around here pretty well, including the schedules of everyone in my hub of influence.

Beyond re-devoting my mornings to writing, I’ve also decided to devote an hour in the evenings to journaling the events of my day. I frequently regret not recording technical discoveries, writing ideas, and lessons-learned from gardening endeavors.

I’ll default to posting these rough ideas privately to my blog, but anticipate that many will be developed into completed ideas for public consumption. Like my recent post about sowing from seed.

As of today, I’ll be devoting this blog entirely to fiction writing and martial arts discussion. I think the two are inseparable for my purposes, so together they stay.

I’ve started a new blog for all things technical. I’ll be updating the look and feel as soon as the main zenovations site is finished. In the mean time, I’ll slowly be migrating all my technical posts from 3 (yes three) different blogs into that one.

I’ll occasionally cross-post here about technical things of interest to writers, such as writing software, blog tools, and web sites of writerly interest.

I’ve also decided that, based on how little I recall of the lessons-learned from our very successful garden last year, that I am going to chronicle this years efforts in detail, as both a self-reference and a tool for others. That will take place on jenandmichael, our family photo site.

So, that’s right. I’m going to maintain three blogs, each with individual content. That might seem like a magnificent effort, but honestly, it’s a reduction in overhead. Right now I maintain several personal files about each project, as well as three private technical blogs, a writing journal, and a gardening notebook.

This will combine all of that into three common and specific blogs and allow much of the material to be shared with others as I deem worthy.

Oh yes, and I’m going to be in CC on saturdays doing crits again. See some of you there!