Absidea: end of Season 1
May 21st, 2007 Some of you may know my absidea blog on absurd ideas. Some may even be regular readers. Then you must have noticed it’s been a while since my last post. Do not worry: I have not lost the faith. It’s just that I have been doing the exact same work at my day job (i.e. describing inventions, hopefully not absurd — with illustrations), and so was less inclined to spend more time on the writing side. However, the idea side is still very much alive, and entries are piling up.
To avoid the guilt and stress associated with too much distance between posts, I have decided to take an official break while I brood a new batch. And it gave me an idea: this first batch of articles is to be considered as absidea Season 1.
Season 2 will start July 1st, 2007, with an intended weekly publication frequency, until the end of December. That’s a deal. And hopefully again in 2008 and so forth until I run out of ideas (or death terminates my internet connection). Meanwhile, make sure you have read all of season 1 (that is, if you like the concept).
As an appetizer for those who do not know absidea, below is a selection of Season 1’s best episodes:
Sports in weightless environments
Vacuum-filled airships
A skyscraper with only one floor
The giant space beanstalk
Floating pop-corn
Shrinking mankind
See you around on Sunday July 1st, 2007, 00:00 UTC for the first Season 2 article, entitled … can’t tell you right now, but I’m sure there will be leaks before that date.
I didn’t know about your other blog until I read this entry. Absidea is quite wonderful. I submitted your “one story skyscraper” idea to Reddit, and so far it has 664 votes for it! Have you ever considered turning absidea into a book? I bet a publisher could easily sell enough copies to break even, and with luck you might even have a hit! Something to think about anyway…
So you‘re earthboundkid? I had suspicions and was about to get to you and ask, as I was curious to know what hit me. I got 55 comments, i.e. it doubled the total number of comments on the whole blog in just twelve hours — most comments being serious and friendly ones. Apparently the frenzy is now subsiding, as the post is now #21 or so in reddit/hot. Don’t you do that again on a regular basis before consulting me! (I mean, thanks).
I feel a little ashamed I did not know about the Guggenheim. How will my litblogger friends look at me now?
You bet I have considered turning it into a book. But it is already work enough to write, I do not want to run the obstacle course of finding a publisher and fighting the marketing battle. I’ve had more readers today than I could have hoped for with an obscure hard-to-market book, even if it had a gaudy cover.
You may not have to turn it into a book; just keep coming up with brilliant ideas like the continuous-floor skyscraper and some visionary editor may come to you …
Letting publishers come to me. That would be some role reversal.
The great lovers make their loves come to them. This is the art of coquetry.
And if they don’t come, I’ll say they did not deserve me