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Dec. 9th, 2012 11:39 am Oh man. Things going on? It's not what's going on but what's coming off that matters my friends! That's what they always tod me anyway. I guess my hair is coming off? in that, today I aught to shave. I haven't in like, too long. The back of my hair (as opposed to the sides) is starting to curl - shaggy. They don't mind at work, I'm the office darling! With my pleasing looks and magnanimous demeanor - why I am downright beloved. Also they gave me the new iPhone to have. Since we'll probably go that way in the future and get everyone iPhones (no enterprise management suites for android - or anyway, not good enough ones - and RIM is... not long for the world). Anyhow I got the iPhone and I'm not the sort to shill for products but I can see why people become avid supporters. It's certainly the nicest phone I've ever had.
Phones. You know what? Am I stumped on the phones? Have I gotten tired of painting you ask? Nah. No. You know what's weird. First - I don't have a good idea for the 8 of Wands which is next - look at the source material:
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That is boring. It's boring to paint and it'll look kind of dumb if I just put in 8 phones flying through the sky. So I'm working on an idea. No suggestions please! That's not how this works!
Still - and Second - you know I posted 1 painting over at my other place - http://www.kingtycoon.blogspot.com in the last month and that's all - and wouldn't you know it? Record breaking hit-counts. People have a thirst to know about the quen of the fairies and the 7 of cups - which are popular search terms. I'm a little vain about that whole thing, just a little - but it's interesting that the volume of your production ends up just turning into page views over the longer term. Eventually, some day, someone will be intereste in what you are doing today. Which is an interesting thing to notice. You know - the internet kind of trained me to be much more about immediate style gratification - as in - I post this thing and hold my breath dreaming of comments - where, really - there's a whole time angle built in - the long term - the work of writing at all.
I got super impatient about things all last month - production wise. I can see I talk a lot about producing. You know what? I've got inbuilt-lonliness formula. I'm completely engaged on a weekly basis, my free time is not my time and every night that I can go somewhere there is nothing special happening, anytime anyone invites me to do a thing? It's on a friday night. Friday night I make dinner and read stories and we play video games. Plus - it's been my experience that girls don't make passes at dudes who have children. Which is to say - I've got to distract myself somewhat and make things, at least produce stuff if I'm not going to have romances and all that. Silly old feelings anyway. So I went and wrote a book - and it's come in the mail just yesterday - my walking-around-copy. Man, that's a nice thing, book in hand to walk around and comment up with. I like this last one a lot ,a LOT, I think I don't... I think I've got a modest talent, and a certain vigor - which are not the best qualities in tandem, but you know what? I like to do it and I'm okay at it. So there, I'll do it and hope I get better, try to get better. Anyhow, I really think I am getting better! This last one is, I think, I think it has some parts that are really and truly you know, special. Good. So I want to polish it up.
Then I was trying to sleep and I realized that what I should do is that I should re-write the other 3, not that big of a deal, I never really quit writing them anyway, but I'll start re-writing them and maybe do some kind of internet serialization. Ideally the whole 22 book project will have a lot of accompanying reference material - I've had some abortive attempts at making my own Wiki - but, you, dear friends, know that I am very, very lacking in the skill of brevity, and so I leave my encyclopediaing at the door. I should try though, I still should.
So I guess, next year, starting then, I'll start a new blog site and there, I'll start posting up the series of books - so far - in 1-2000 word increments, maybe 2-3 times a week? That seems like a winning way to go. Something interesting to try anyway, and a useful means for getting through my revisions.
Meantime the books that I make - you know I really try to make them kind of nicer. Not a lot of pictures - but mess around with fonts, and layouts, covers and whatnot - I'd like to make something that's distinct and pleasant to have. Maybe I aught to really go nuts and start thinking about page-borders and designs like that. Really don't want to learn much more about photoshop than I already know, but whatever, CS... fine. If that's what's asked for.
Meantime I go on Thursdays to a new game - Pathfinder... Ugh. Sundays is Shadowrun... not ugh, but still the 4th edition so a little ugh.
Games - you know I've played a lot of them and dislike almost all of them mechanically - but that's less than half of what the game is - so I don't bitch too much - the problem with rulesets is that you start noticing, always ,what you'd do differently, and then you're very distracted about it, it's disconcerting to be in the game and think - this is how I'd make this better! But Pathfinder in particular irks me - there's too many fundamental flaws in any of the 3.x systems. What's weird is that most of the fun I've had playing games were in those systems - they're still just kind of dull and also a bit stupid. The stupidity... Maybe I'll do an honest review of different gaming systems. Different settings? I'll have to look a little more closely than I have but I could.
It's been gray and rainy, it's been dreary but not too cold, not very wintry at all. There's something wrong, it seems, with the sky, the sky doesn't seem like it is how it's supposed to be. Otherwise? I'm rather disengaged from the day to day, from my lived life vs. my idea-life. Which maybe you can see here.
Phones. You know what? Am I stumped on the phones? Have I gotten tired of painting you ask? Nah. No. You know what's weird. First - I don't have a good idea for the 8 of Wands which is next - look at the source material:
That is boring. It's boring to paint and it'll look kind of dumb if I just put in 8 phones flying through the sky. So I'm working on an idea. No suggestions please! That's not how this works!
Still - and Second - you know I posted 1 painting over at my other place - http://www.kingtycoon.blogspot.com in the last month and that's all - and wouldn't you know it? Record breaking hit-counts. People have a thirst to know about the quen of the fairies and the 7 of cups - which are popular search terms. I'm a little vain about that whole thing, just a little - but it's interesting that the volume of your production ends up just turning into page views over the longer term. Eventually, some day, someone will be intereste in what you are doing today. Which is an interesting thing to notice. You know - the internet kind of trained me to be much more about immediate style gratification - as in - I post this thing and hold my breath dreaming of comments - where, really - there's a whole time angle built in - the long term - the work of writing at all.
I got super impatient about things all last month - production wise. I can see I talk a lot about producing. You know what? I've got inbuilt-lonliness formula. I'm completely engaged on a weekly basis, my free time is not my time and every night that I can go somewhere there is nothing special happening, anytime anyone invites me to do a thing? It's on a friday night. Friday night I make dinner and read stories and we play video games. Plus - it's been my experience that girls don't make passes at dudes who have children. Which is to say - I've got to distract myself somewhat and make things, at least produce stuff if I'm not going to have romances and all that. Silly old feelings anyway. So I went and wrote a book - and it's come in the mail just yesterday - my walking-around-copy. Man, that's a nice thing, book in hand to walk around and comment up with. I like this last one a lot ,a LOT, I think I don't... I think I've got a modest talent, and a certain vigor - which are not the best qualities in tandem, but you know what? I like to do it and I'm okay at it. So there, I'll do it and hope I get better, try to get better. Anyhow, I really think I am getting better! This last one is, I think, I think it has some parts that are really and truly you know, special. Good. So I want to polish it up.
Then I was trying to sleep and I realized that what I should do is that I should re-write the other 3, not that big of a deal, I never really quit writing them anyway, but I'll start re-writing them and maybe do some kind of internet serialization. Ideally the whole 22 book project will have a lot of accompanying reference material - I've had some abortive attempts at making my own Wiki - but, you, dear friends, know that I am very, very lacking in the skill of brevity, and so I leave my encyclopediaing at the door. I should try though, I still should.
So I guess, next year, starting then, I'll start a new blog site and there, I'll start posting up the series of books - so far - in 1-2000 word increments, maybe 2-3 times a week? That seems like a winning way to go. Something interesting to try anyway, and a useful means for getting through my revisions.
Meantime the books that I make - you know I really try to make them kind of nicer. Not a lot of pictures - but mess around with fonts, and layouts, covers and whatnot - I'd like to make something that's distinct and pleasant to have. Maybe I aught to really go nuts and start thinking about page-borders and designs like that. Really don't want to learn much more about photoshop than I already know, but whatever, CS... fine. If that's what's asked for.
Meantime I go on Thursdays to a new game - Pathfinder... Ugh. Sundays is Shadowrun... not ugh, but still the 4th edition so a little ugh.
Games - you know I've played a lot of them and dislike almost all of them mechanically - but that's less than half of what the game is - so I don't bitch too much - the problem with rulesets is that you start noticing, always ,what you'd do differently, and then you're very distracted about it, it's disconcerting to be in the game and think - this is how I'd make this better! But Pathfinder in particular irks me - there's too many fundamental flaws in any of the 3.x systems. What's weird is that most of the fun I've had playing games were in those systems - they're still just kind of dull and also a bit stupid. The stupidity... Maybe I'll do an honest review of different gaming systems. Different settings? I'll have to look a little more closely than I have but I could.
It's been gray and rainy, it's been dreary but not too cold, not very wintry at all. There's something wrong, it seems, with the sky, the sky doesn't seem like it is how it's supposed to be. Otherwise? I'm rather disengaged from the day to day, from my lived life vs. my idea-life. Which maybe you can see here.
