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Thursday, 07 August 2008 00:28:48
Well there have been several more fires since the last time I wrote in the blog. Hope to post some photos of Dasiy and Ci-Ci soon.
Thursday, 07 August 2008 02:27:30
Well folks, been off the site for a while. Been most joyously unemployed, yay! Lordy, I wish this could last. Not that I'm loafing. I've been up at 6 or 7 everyday, generally working much more than 9 to 5 on my house and getting ready for my new job. But I'm not stuck in a cubicle at any point in the day, so color me happy! Also, I'm taking a novel writing class. I'm developing an original idea, and I've gotten good feedback on it. I've got the basics of the plot set out, but I'm not real sure how I'm going to present it. For instance - many of the other writers in the class use first person, and I've been playing with that. It does kind of stick me with one character, so I'm not sure if I want to develop too much in that direction. Yep, there's a long way to go! So, the first week of the class I was straight up about my writing history and told them I came from fanfic. Of course, none of them had any idea what that is - in fact, no one in the class is even into sci-fi. There were a few *oh shit* looks when I told them my genre LOL! Which makes it especially cool that I believe I'm winning them over. I don't think they've encountered the kind of character driven sci-fi that Joss inspires. Because - although my world and my plot are vastly different from Joss's, I'm following his lead of using characters that real people can relate to, and giving them lives that feel relevant, even if the worlds they live in are very different from ours. Which is to say that this fanfic thing has been wonderful. I honestly wasn't sure if I was just a hack that would get torn up when I encountered "real life" writers. (The class includes published novelists and long time columnists. And hell - let me plug the teacher. She wrote this:
Thursday, 07 August 2008 11:34:43
The weekend of Comic Con, I was out of town and mostly away from my laptop. So, I missed all of the highlights from the Whedonpanel, and I still haven't read up on them. Then last night, the Serenity: The Other Half comic appeared on Dark Horse's MySpace page (in case you missed it: