Kent - about 3 years ago (yeah, I can't believe it's been that long either) you were applying your creative writing skills to an on going project / book entitled "Survey Noir". As I remember, it never quite got finished. Did you ever finish it or is it time to repost your last version and pick the story up and take it to its illogical conclusion?
Dave,
Kent posted some time back that he had inadvertently painted himself into a corner with that story line when he burned Dave's house down, if I remember correctly.
He did, however, assure us, then, that he thought he'd found a way out of the situation. I guess that's one of the pitfalls of "design-as-you-go" art. 🙂
Yeah. Rosie was wondering the same thing this morning as we shared cups of joe at the diner. She still had her dog eared copy of the latest installment rolled up and stuff into her back pocket.
She asked me if I had any news on what happened to the casino or did they nail the perp that set fire to O'Roly's house.
I shrugged, like I often do and told her I had no news. I think the author might have been silenced by some of the finance folks for the casino or maybe he was on just on the lam in west texas.
It was not my case, at least not a paying case. My landlord said I needed to start taking on paying cases and not just getting involved with dames in trouble who could turn on the eye faucets when they needed to. I can be a sucker for dames with long legs, sad eyes and short black dresses. My kryptonite it seems.
Rosie and I parted ways as she went back to marking tires on her meter maid rounds and I went back up to the office. Early, yes, but time for a shot. Not a 45 shot but a shot from the bottle in the desk.
Tracer Paulk
> Kent - about 3 years ago (yeah, I can't believe it's been that long either) you were applying your creative writing skills to an on going project / book entitled "Survey Noir". As I remember, it never quite got finished. Did you ever finish it or is it time to repost your last version and pick the story up and take it to its illogical conclusion?
Dave, the draft is still sitting there. I do intend to finish it, but I've been busy with other things and haven't had the time to work on it every day as the story requires. What originally let the air out of the narrative for me was burning the protagonist's house down. The last time I read through the draft, though, it wasn't much of a problem, so possibly the obstacle that had been presented is no longer there.
I guess I just need to tell the clients who call that they'll have to wait. :> Yesterday's was about a boundary problem that I'd identified about twenty years ago, and that had apparently lain dormant since at least 1938. The client is determined to bring it to a conclusion, even if he has to file a lawsuit (which in Texas would be a suit in Trespass to Try Title). So we've been set in motion to revisit what was done in the the 1840's when the lines in question were originally surveyed and assembling the abstracts of both adjoining landowners' titles.
Ain't it terrible ....
when you actually have to work to pay for your hobbies?
Definitely an entertaining read if you have some time and are familiar with the usual surveyor complaints.
Kent, have you published any fiction? I go to a local critique group and see stuff that isn't that good. Not that this would sell in the general market, of course.
Thanks for the link Bill93.
I remember many of the posts, including the very first riff on Dave's client meeting, but I hadn't seen the full text version before, and had no idea Kent had written so much. Great job, very well written Kent.
Brad
> I remember many of the posts, including the very first riff on Dave's client meeting, but I hadn't seen the full text version before, and had no idea Kent had written so much.
Well, thanks, just set the last couple of chapters aside because I have in mind taking the narrative in a slightly different, more sinister, direction.
"more sinister direction"
Yikes, you're not going to pull the pins now that the house is gone:)
Oh, far, far worse, but I don't want to give too much away and spoil the story for you. :>
"sinister" as in the Latin sinestra ?
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> Harrison Ford play me in the movie?
Dave, the central character is merely a "Dave". I was thinking Kier Dullea for the role. Any resemblance between that Dave and any other Dave, living or dead is purely coincidental. Some readers may have noted that the "Placer" in Placer County, California translates into English as "Pleasure". That likewise is one of those remarkable coincidences that do not mean that the setting of the story is in the Sacramento Valley. There are, of course, no Indian casinos in the vicinity of Sacramento and hardly any hot sheets motels run by immigrants from South Asia. These all are inventions.
> Kent, have you published any fiction?
Bill, almost everything that I've had published has appeared under a nom-de-plume. You probably would not recognize them unless you've read any of the "John Grisham" novels.
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Placer is a reference to Placer Gold mining, I'm just sayin...
Yeah all those large buildings on Indian Rancherias I pass every 15 minutes on rural highways are just mirages 🙂
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> Placer is a reference to Placer Gold mining, I'm just sayin...
Yes, placer gold which may be easily obtained compared to hard rock mining certainly can't refer to the Spanish word for pleasure. No way.
