Nothing Special
I really have to thank Andrew and Sarah for informing me of the proper way to make white tea, because it is delicious when not scalded.
--I'm too busy again. Where for art thou, hours of the day? Work, NaNo, freelancing, working with the Art center, running a game, playing in a game, trying to relax and then handle all my personal projects. Urghgh. It's my own damn fault, but that doesn't mean it ain't exausting.
--Speaking of Nano, it is coming along (mostly) swimmingly. Chapter one, which clocks in at like 9000 words (the book is going to be 'round 150000 words in total, also, it needs trimming like whoa) went great but chapter two is a hopeless mess. It's all I can do to not take a hacksaw to it already. Every time I sit down to write I'm attempting to avoid meandering, making sure to set a goal for every hundred words: this needs to happen in these hundred, this in the next. Make it so. My biggest issues in writing are definitely pacing and passiveness in my characters, so those are what I'm targeting with this novel in particular.
--Work is still splendid. As soon as some of my books release I'll put up the art. Actually, I'm debating with myself whether it's right to polish up some of the work for my portfolio, or if I should just start from scratch on pieces specifically for that purpose. The problem is that the work I do has to be quick, so it's not as polished as I'd like, and I don't usually get to color it. If I wanted any to make the portfolio, I'd need to put some extra work in, but the finished product would not match what was actually in print. What do you guys think? Worth it? Because I've done some pieces with really strong compositions, and I want to get my children's work up here and out there in general, but, eh, perfectionism.
Oh, life. You are boring, but in the best of ways.
--I'm too busy again. Where for art thou, hours of the day? Work, NaNo, freelancing, working with the Art center, running a game, playing in a game, trying to relax and then handle all my personal projects. Urghgh. It's my own damn fault, but that doesn't mean it ain't exausting.
--Speaking of Nano, it is coming along (mostly) swimmingly. Chapter one, which clocks in at like 9000 words (the book is going to be 'round 150000 words in total, also, it needs trimming like whoa) went great but chapter two is a hopeless mess. It's all I can do to not take a hacksaw to it already. Every time I sit down to write I'm attempting to avoid meandering, making sure to set a goal for every hundred words: this needs to happen in these hundred, this in the next. Make it so. My biggest issues in writing are definitely pacing and passiveness in my characters, so those are what I'm targeting with this novel in particular.
--Work is still splendid. As soon as some of my books release I'll put up the art. Actually, I'm debating with myself whether it's right to polish up some of the work for my portfolio, or if I should just start from scratch on pieces specifically for that purpose. The problem is that the work I do has to be quick, so it's not as polished as I'd like, and I don't usually get to color it. If I wanted any to make the portfolio, I'd need to put some extra work in, but the finished product would not match what was actually in print. What do you guys think? Worth it? Because I've done some pieces with really strong compositions, and I want to get my children's work up here and out there in general, but, eh, perfectionism.
Oh, life. You are boring, but in the best of ways.