Dichotomy

Dec. 1st, 2005 02:43 am
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Well, the whole NaNoWriMo thing is over and there's going to a big get-together on Saturday. I, as such, will probably not be attending so that A) I can spend some Quality Time with Little Dude and B) so The Wife can go because she's a much more social person than I am anyway.

In cool news, I finished the layout and pencils for the cover of The Novel. It's a little incongruous, but I like it. Unfortunately, I'd prefer to have something more stately (i.e. painted) and have been slogging through watercolor tutorials for the past two hours. So, I will probably A) just not do that or B) scan it and attempt to color it with the backup plan being coloring on the PC. Dunno which yet. I'm leaning toward inking it and then going in adding a few notes of color.

Ne and I have also agreed to be Reading Club Buddies (4EVAR!) and are simultaneously reading copies of The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. I, however, am also reading Scott Pilgrim trades by Bryan Lee O'Malley. It is a strange mix.

What I've found to be interesting is that after carving out the time to write a novel in a month, I have all this free time and creative habits that I had not fully realized. Hopefully I can channel all this into a GRAPHIC NOVEL! That would be totally sweet.
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Hopefully today will be more productive than last night.  Not that reading "One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish" isn't productive, but hey, a guy's gotta expand his horizons.

Things to do:
  • Return books to the library
  • Finish layouts
  • Actually draw something
  • Go through National Geographics


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is HERE!




I am particularly amused by the #1 and #2 indicators.  ^_^  God, I love my subscription to Wired.
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Well, as per usual, once I've started a book I'm really into... I cannot rest until I've finished. And here I am, 7am after just finishing Anansi Boys. I really liked it. I mean, I'm a sucker for mythology and folklore as it is, so anytime I can read some sort of extrapolation thereof, I'm always pleased.

I mean, I could kinda see the "surprise reveal" coming early on, but hey, I'm purty smart. The peg game at CrackerBarrell told me so. (It should be mentioned it also called me an EG-NO-RE-MUS once.) Have to say, though, I don't know whether it was novel size or because it tapped into my Norse mythology geek, but I liked American Gods a little bit better. Eh, I like what I like.

In other news, I finally found a showing of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington that I could record on the ol' VCR (how anachronistic, I know!) so that will be fun to go through tonight while Ne's at her Kitters' Conspiracy meeting.

Whee.

Sep. 3rd, 2005 05:23 am
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Whoo-hoo!  Literature.org's updated its holdings.  Now it has nigh complete Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas and Jack London.  I knew it had most of the Wizard of Oz books, but finding out it has all the Tarzan, Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes and Muskateer books is awesome.  Hopefully they can get some Robert E. Howard, Mark Twain and H.P Lovecraft as well.

Ah, books.

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All the disparaging remarks made about the Internet are, I believe, made by people who have neither the time nor the inclination to use it properly.

I mean, it's been a slow night tonight, and do you know what I've done?  I've read the first two books in L Frank Baum's Oz series.  And for children's literature written at the turn of the century, they're marvelous stories.  No, really.  Where else do you get scenes of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman making not-so-subtle threats and dialogue like this:

( Marvelous Land of Oz, Chapter 8 )

How the hell did I miss this stuff growing up?

 

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