steam punk

So, after 6 months of writing a review every week I've finally gotten to the point where it doesn't suck up all of my writing time anymore.

Which is nice.

That means I can get back to all the other things I need to be writing. Like this blog. Maybe get back to more than once a month writing. That'd be cool. And, get started on my new novel. That'd be even better. Speaking of the new novel, I've stumbled across a burgeoning Punk genre called Steampunk. And, I say stumbled upon because I already knew it existed and had seen a few anime's in that style already. But, as I started researching it more I found the sub-genre was an off shoot of Cyberpunk and started back in the late 80s.

Which is weird, since that's when I was readng more than I was breathing air. I mean, I thought I would have read at least some of it then.

Anyway.

As I was saying- new novel. I've decided to write in the punk style.

Which, in case you didn't know, is a rejection of the Star Trekian philosophy that science is our savior. No, punk says that science and industry is our ruination, and the only choice we have is to rebel against that science and industry. usually the worlds are dystopian nightmares, and in Steampunk it's all covered over in a polite veneer of Victorian society.

Which really lends itself to that idea of science and industry being a destroyer as it was during this time child labor came under scrutiny along with cruelty to people and animals. It was the golden time of the industrial revolution.

So, yeah. The next novel, which the outlines began for it last week, will be steampunkish. I have started to outline several short stories as well, to get my feet wet in the genre, so to speak.