his black shirt cries while his shoes get cold

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on three new books:

  1. Do You Want Kids With That?, which is a collection of stories about being a stepparent.
  2. The Untitled Poker Book, which is my effort to write a Big Deal or Positively Fifth Street or Diary of a Mad Poker Player.
  3. The Untitled Work Of Fiction which is still in the larval stage . . . but I get excited whenever I look at my notes.

All of these books will be published by Monolith Press, and will have audio versions just like Just A Geek: Teh Audio Book. I am flirting with releasing electronic versions, as well.
I’m working with my good friend and Dancing Barefoot editor, Andrew, on these projects, and as I go through old blog entries for material and talk with him, it reminds me how much fun I had with that book, and how wonderful the sense of community around WWdN and The Soapbox was back then. I’m thrilled that I earn a little bit of a living from writing now, and I’m continually shocked that so many people read my lame website, but in many ways, I miss the old days when I felt like whatever I wrote here didn’t matter as much. It was so so sad to read the hopeful optimism I had with Just A Geek, but so cool to relive old Star Trek conventions, moments with Anne and the kids, the Avon walk and marathon, and track the ups and downs of the last couple of years in my life.
I sent Andrew a ton of material for Do You Want Kids With That? on Monday (my first official self-imposed deadline, and I hit it! Yes!) and while he reviews it, I can get to work on the other projects when I’m not writing for Games Of Our Lives, which is up to 32 columns! Can you believe that?
I was unsure about working on several projects in parallel. I didn’t think I’d be able to maintain creative focus or momentum on several different projects, but Andrew reminded me that Isaac Asimov always worked on several different projects at once, so if he got blocked on one of them, he could just switch to a different one and keep on working. I’m no Isaac Asimov, but I’m a huge fan and admirer of his work, and if it worked for him . . . well, maybe it will work for me, too.
So as I buckle down and seriously get to work on these new projects, I’m making Yet Another Change to WWdN: I have several friends who write for Weblogs, Inc., and we’ve been talking about me contributing to their poker blog, Card Squad. I know that not everyone who reads WWdN enjoys or cares about poker, so I talked with Jason Calcanis about moving all of my poker content over there: trip reports, SNG reports, observations on the game, reviews, interviews with bloggers and professionals, etc . . . and he thought it was a swell idea.
So. Starting right now, with a few exceptions, I’m moving most of my poker blogging over to Card Squad. I’ll still post major announcements here, but just about everything else will go over there. My Boobies over there is Controversy at the Bike.
Oh! Before I go: while I was writing this, I got e-mail from Dan at PokerStars, and I’ve got the green light on a charity poker tournament to support the Red Cross! More details will come later, just as soon as I get time and date worked out. (That’s one of those major announcements which will probably get cross-posted here and at Card Squad.)

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60 thoughts on “his black shirt cries while his shoes get cold”

  1. I put my vote in for the poker blogs. You have created an addict. Not so much for hold’em, Omaha H/L on Pokerstars is my drug of choice.

  2. Hey Wil, just wanted to say, been reading via LJ for a while, and got started on PokerStars last night. The pic they have for you on the lobby is pretty bad ass, and right next to Moneymaker.

  4. HA! I got an RSS feed for just Wil’s posts at CardSquad. Just put this URL into your RSS aggregator:
    http://tinyurl.com/cg53m
    I used http://www.wotzwot.com/rssxl.php on http://www.cardsquad.com/bloggers/wil-wheaton/
    to do it. Then I used http://tinyurl.com to make it shorter and more manageable.
    Not positive it will work once Wil posts a second one at CardSquad, but we can tweak it at that time if need be. I *think* it will work though.
    I am the hax0r! 🙂
    Brian
    http://myvogonpotery.com

  5. Wil:
    Keep the poker. I’m one of those who barely understands what you’re talking about–I thought a blind was where you hid from ducks. But you get all excited and puppyish about it, and it makes for fun reading. I’d feel I was missing out if you weren’t posting your poker triumphs and crashes. It also sounds like a hassle finidng your stuff on Card Squad, and I am certainly not planning on hanging out over there.
    If people don’t like the poker stuff, umm, guess what? They can just skip it! Close your eyes, folks, and it will magically go away!
    Ok, ya big lug? Got it? Keep following your passions and please keep on posting them right here at..sniff sniff..WWDN (my wife thinks I am such a colossal nerd, and I need to keep proving it).
    So, I’ll say the magic word……Howard Lederer? Umm…river?…fold? Sheesh…I’m running out of words here….

  6. In regards to your poker posts, there are also some of us who are just so inept at the game that trying to establish an interest has been a frustrating venture.
    And yeah, going through old blog entries is truly a wonderful experience. For me, the reactions range from, “Now *that’s* scimitar wit!” to “Wow, but I was in a bad mood that day” to “Crap, I didn’t spell check that one” to “Whoah? I admitted to that online?”

  7. Hey Wil (if you get this far down),
    Don’t know if you already read it, but a great blog for working writers is Neil Gaiman’s: http://neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp
    He posted all through the writing of his most recent novel, which was a great peek into the process, and he’s very free with advice. His current interview in SFX talks about how he had to take 4 months off in the middle of his book to sort out why his characters were misbehaving and what to do about it. He certainly didn’t sit smoking his pipe and contemplating his navel during that time, as he has a couple of movies coming out and short stories popping up all over the place.
    I find it inspiring. Hope you do too. Keep up the good work and remember that even writers who have been doing it for a lo-ong time get frustrated and lack confidence at some point during almost every project.
    SFX article: http://www.futurenet.com/sfx/features/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=37160&subsectionid=1201&ord=1486

  8. Do You Want Kids With That? is a great, very catchy title. I’d definitely want to read that. I’m an English teacher, too, if that carries any weight.

  9. Wil, speaking of books, I don’t know if you’ve seen this Slashdot post. The post’s author suggests that you could bring Wesley Crusher back to life in print, in a way that no one else could. I would concur with that assessment, even though you’d have to work something out with Pocket Books to pull it off, and they may have given up on young Mr. Crusher as the rest of TPTB in the Paramount empire seem to have. But I think you could do it, and, thanks to the legions of monkeys out there, I think it’d sell. (I know I’d buy it.) Perhaps some of the untold stories from Mr. Crusher’s Academy days, or what happened to him after he joined the crew of the Titan (post-Nemesis). Just thinking out loud…

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