Erik Geiger's Blog

Last night I drafted a scene that I think will be a valuable addition to the novella I've been working on, on and off, for about 7 years now. It involves a number of notions that have been fermenting somewhere in my subconscious, having to do with Evolutionary Psychology and ritual magic.
Funny thing is, I think these are bunk. But they do provide the means for me to explore certain ideas in my story. I wanted to rationalize ritual magic, and establish for it a connection to the unconscious mind and the undeveloped potential of the individual.
There's a lot of background sources that I've considered in this story, essays by Robert Anton Wilson, writings by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate, fiction by Joe Straczynski and Jeanne Cavelos, and a healthy dose of narrative structure borrowed from Roger Zelazny.
I've learned a lot from writing this story, but it's become a bit of an albatros around my neck. I really want to finish this thing up and get it out there. Then I can move on to something else. What's the saying? Writing is never finished, just abandoned? I want to take this piece through to the point where I feel comfortable abandoning it, and hopefully sell it.
If I can't sell it, I'll publish it on this web site, either in free installments on this blog, or maybe on some kind of micropay system.