Jul 19 2008
WW(s)IR: July 6 through July 19, 2008
(Yeah, I skipped last weekend’s update. Even with two weeks’ worth of reporting in this one, you’ll notice it’s scant. The heat has fried my brain, and August and September are only going to get hotter. Looking forward to those utility bills…)
IWS: I got bogged down trying to “write clean,” so I switched to powering through with dialogue and stage directions just to make some headway. I have nothing against revisions, but it’s difficult to do them if there’s nothing there to revise. I said it would be done sometime in August. I may have lied, but I’m going to make a concerted effort to ensure that’s not the case.
Blog: I’m panicking because I have an RTB post in 3-1/2 weeks and have no idea what I’m going to do. I’d like to defend my title as Her Royal High-larious-ness, but I don’t feel funny right now. (Brain. Fried.) Here’s hoping an idea presents itself.
Blind Fangboy: No, haven’t heard the verdict on the story, but I went ahead and finished my cover in case the verdict is “no,” so I can put it up here posthaste. On a scale of 1 to 5, I’d give my artwork a 3, which is satisfactory for recreational use.
Cooties: No, that is not the official header at the Cooties site, but working on Blind Fangboy’s cover burned me out on Photoshop, so I haven’t finished the comic strip that will be the official header. I’m leaving it primarily black-and-white and it’s barely a step above stick figures, but it needs more cleaning up than I can deal with right now. (Brain. Fried.) Still no Cootie content. I suppose I should read a book and do something about that.
But I pretty much just want to take a nap with the fan blowing right on my face.
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July 20th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I’m trying to wrap my brain around the concept of even thinking about my RTB column 3.5 weeks before it’s due. O_O I’m always afraid that either 1) some huge issue or event in the industry will happen a couple of days before my column is due and I’ll have a burning need to write about it, rendering anything I wrote ahead of time redundant, or 2) that someone else will write about the topic I’d chosen within a few days of my day, also necessitating a quick, last-minute redo. (Well, maybe not this last time [duck] but in general.)
It’s always interesting to see how other people work, though, and what their baseline assumptions are. I like seeing how many different ways of doing things there are, with fiction writing as well as columns or whatever, and sort of boggling over how all these different modes work so well, for different people, despite so often being based on completely opposing assumptions.
Angie
July 21st, 2008 at 4:11 am
I avoid your issue #1 by cheerfully refusing to touch an “industry issue” with a 10-foot pole, and I usually dodge issue #2 by being so random and just plain weird, no sane person would ever think to beat me to the punch. (And yet, Angela James did it to me once. Go figure…)
I start freaking out about RTB as soon as I get the schedule, actually. If I screw up something of mine, *shrug* and *sorry*—but I hate to do it at someone else’s site.
I’ve determined my work ethic is entirely based upon anxiety, guilt, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and a neurotic sense of responsibility. How peculiar it is that I’m feeling burned out…
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Your results don’t look scant to me. You’ve got a lot on your fried brain besides the heat!
And I HATE trying to write humor when I just don’t feel funny. Hence my sometimes ridiculous reliance on lolcat pics on my own blog. 1 or 2 a week? Normal. 5 in a row? I’m drowning my sorrows in a tub of Ben & Jerry’s and won’t be back for a while.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 am
I’m going through caffeine withdrawal (there is no Diet Pepsi Max Invigorating Cola with Extra Caffeine and Ginseng anywhere in this town) and may be having a depressive episode (hard to diagnose in the midst of caffeine withdrawal), so it’d probably be a good idea for me to interact with no one but Ben and Jer for a week or two. Then again, gaining 20 pounds isn’t exactly going to cheer me up…
Maybe I’ll stick with Oreos. They’re practically health food.