May Day Weekend Interstitial

I do so like the word "interstitial" which I learned from the eminent intellectual blogging chef, Bakerina. This one comes as I embark on a blog fiction which seems already to have a life of its own. I don't remember writing like this in the past; I just have an incident in my mind, the incident involves characters, and as I draw the characters, the action seems just to unfold of its own accord. Events proceed as the characters dictate, and within a few days of mulling over outcomes, the plot seems obvious - or at least, inevitable - and all I have to do is put the time in and follow through with sufficient detail and care to bring it to life.

It is odd to pass days like this - the fiction is a second reality which lives and breathes with me, as I travel and work on other things, and the onward nature of the writing gives me another wind to breathe and fill my sails.

In the so-called real world, I took part in a fascinating seminar this week - under the name Deek Dannunzio - in Second Life. The real world involved me rising at an ungodly hour and logging onto a virtual one to speak to real people about real issues - copyright, creativity, and the modern ways that blogging, podcasting and the internet have made us both producers and users of content. Without really aiming to I seem to have become a spokesperson for the rights of UK podcasters, in an attempt to establish them before they are taken from us.

I also mastered the single at Abbey Road - what fun that was. I worked with Sean Magee - we used a reel-to-reel and the audio desk which Pink Floyd used to master Dark Side Of The Moon. Sounds great - we really got that self-preservation brass band sound.



The song is released on iTunes May 1st. The funny thing is, it has been such a long process to get it this far, that I feel really detached from the entire thing. We'll see how it goes. I promise to keep blogging if I become a pop star.