Time Keeps On Slipping

Well, this has certainly been a fast week. I was aware that I'd missed posting for a day or two, but it doesn't seem possible that I haven't been here since Tuesday afternoon.

Last week I wrote about my days with Interlac and immediately afterwards I was contacted by a current member of the APA. He must have been doing some serious googling to find me so recently after I posted! It was a surprise and a pleasure to hear from him— I only wish that I knew him from my time with Interlac. Unfortunately, he was active for the first 80 mailings of Interlac and has since become active again, but he was not active during the brief time that I was on the wait list. According to him Interlac is still going... but the mailings are thin as so much of the personal communication that used to fill each zine is now conducted via email. He also invited me to create a zine for the 200th mailing, which is coming up in August, and I am sorely tempted to do so, but I just don't know if I want to add something like that into my life right now.

I awoke this morning— or yesterday morning?— with an idea for my serial story. I've already two ideas in mind, and I'm leaning heavily towards one of them, but this new idea intrigues me. It is about a man who works for a consortium of scientists. These scientists are world-renowned leaders in their fields, and most are independently wealthy off various patents and successful exploitations of their ideas. Together they maintain a secret set of laboratories wherein they can conduct research that is too precious or too dangerous to be controlled by a single corporation or government. From time to time, they require assistance in the field (outside of the lab) and this is where the hero comes into play. He is the agent for this consortium. He and his team conduct hands-on investigation and are also responsible for the security of the consortium.

I believe that's a fun idea with lots of openings for stories. Though it is in no way similar to the other two ideas I'm mulling over, it is indicative of what I intend to write. I'm a huge fan of pulp serials like Doc Savage or any of the worlds imagined by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I don't know if there's a place in the world for their like, but I hope to find out.

Well, I'm getting up early— in just a few hours— so I'll cut this short. See you next time!

"Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it."— Mark Twain