h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm still surviving, despite the Universe's best attempts to thwart my efforts. Of course, it's always a question as to whether or not anyone notices my absence or not but I suppose, for my own sake, that's not the point.

I'm continuing to work on Spade. There is so much to his world that I want to develop it's hard to know where I need to draw the line and stop and just get back to the main story. Except I don't know what that is. What's more, it seems like everyday I'm coming across some article or other about new technology and I think "Oh! I need to find some way to incorporate that into the story." But when one is trying to write a story about life 300 years into the future, it's tough to know what's really relavent and what isn't. Of course, at some point I need to start ignoring the details and just let suspension of disbelief take over and hope the story is compelling enough to work.