In the interests of some sort of balance (or just being flighty), here’s a less self pitying post. Well, can’t moan on my 300th post can I?!
I’m loving writing at the moment.
About six months ago a few of the different things I was doing were going nowhere (it’s a familiar tale) so I decided to do something else. Starting something new whenever you get stuck isn’t always a good move, I’ve far too many uncompleted projects lying around, but sometimes it’s just nice to work on stuff and not worry too much.
Anyway, I eventually ran out of steam on my side project and went back to finishing the other stuff. Last week I started thinking about that not forgotten just resting side project and a few days ago decided to have a look at it. It turns out it’s not bad and as I read through it I started extending bits, took bits out and added new bits. And I just realised how much fun it was, making things up, I can’t believe I keep forgetting that.
Real life and all it’s concerns is still looking behind my shoulder but I think it’s probably taking a sneaky peak at the computer screen now.
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I hope you encouraged Rebecca to breastfeed. Sounds random, I know. Do some research on formula vs. breastmilk. The differences are astounding. She can pump and you can bottle feed the baby if she worries about you getting to bond with him/her.
Ps post a story
Yup that's pretty random!
Don't worry breast milk's always been on the menu.
Post a story? You mean the one I'm working on? I was considering putting a bit up with the post but I'm going to wait until I polish it up a little. hope you can wait a little longer.
...i...can't...
ps her boobs will be huge...like ann nicole size...right after she has the baby and her milk comes in...just something to look forward to
ps whats with me and the ps's
I wrote a novel once. Children's novel. Never got further than a rejection from an agent.
But I LOVED writing it. It wasn't the winning, it was the taking part.
Something deeply satisfying about putting together the pieces of the puzzle and seeing something take form from virtually nothing.
Well, I'll try not to make you wait too late.
Ps Sadly if Rebecca's boobs doubled in size she'd still look like a 13 year old boy, although she's hoping it'll be a bit better than that. Me, I just remember that she's got a lovely bottom, the Felicity Kendal of bottoms.
Ps Yeah, what is with that?
I've written, eek, 2 kid's books so far. The 1st one never got sent off but was a lot of fun writing. The 2nd one is Simian Smith, which I'll post the first chapter of forewith. At the moment I've got 2 books I'm trying to write and a couple of other things I'd like to do after them. Both are quite different, but I think that's all for the good, they come from different parts of my brain and one sort of feeds the other, sort of like Moebius/Jean Giraud kind of way.
I only fell into writing because I needed to have something to produce artwork for but ended up finding it.... easier isn't quite the right word, maybe just less fraught than drawing.
Hope you haven't given up the writing after 1 rejection.... which is what I did with my picture book atempt!
No, haven't been scared away by rejection. Fortunately the rejection carried good sound advice with it. Just haven't been able to do much in the way of prose since. Comics and Animation take up enough time, and what other books I had turned into projects in other mediums. Sometimes an animation project becomes a comics project and vice versa. And often, book ideas become animation pitches.
Plus, I enjoy comics more than I do prose, so by and large it tends to be the way to go. It's great to see kidult style books coming out in comics, like Abadazad. but at the same time, I wouldn't rule out doing it again because it was a huge amount of fun.
Comics are hard work for me, I love them and I'd love to do them but it takes me ages and wipes me out.
Abadazad seems to be part of publishers trying to become more involved in comics, the same publisher's bringing out the UK edition of Bone, which is brilliant news.
BTW on the comic front, have you checked out the link to the left for Garen's blog? He does a fantastic comic called Rainbow Orchid (imagine a cross between Tintin, Blake & Mortimer and H Rider Haggard) which you might like.
Gorgeous. Shall have to put Mister Fawcett on to this too. Thanks for that.
Abadazad was originally a Crossgen title. Crossgen went broke, lots of fans tentatively hanging on to hear if it would ever get picked up and saved by anyone (me, a Mike Ploog fan, being one of them).
Thankfully it looks set to run for several books. All of which will be on my pull list.
I get the impression that there is quite a market for this sort of stuff in the US... the faerie kingdom just beneath the venear of the mundane world. Charles De Lint sort of thing.
The peak I had at fawcettcomix blog makes me think he'll like Rainbow Orchid too. Garen's a really lovely guy, I'm so glad RO's reaching a receptive audience that seems to get bigger all the time, spread the word.
The stuff I saw from Crossgen didn't do much for me, well produced and everything but I just can't buy everything! Which is why I missed Abadazad first time round. From what I hear Disney bought it up so it's release was a pretty safe bet and Ploog has enough Hollywood currency that there shouldn't be much interference. Anyway, it's going to get a descent push in bookshops when the new edition comes out so fingers crossed for big sales.
I remember when there was all this 'waiting for the trade' mentality which there still is in comics, and I used to very anti the 'new scum' definition of 'the pamphlet' and pro the old format monthly funny books. But I see the sense in getting into the book stores for most companies. and also I've found that a lot of books that are monthly titles do work better as trades. Kirkman (walking Dead, Invincible) is, for my money, a trade writer rather than a monthly writer. His books work better collected. A lot of mini-series feel like stories broken into five parts rather than five installments making one whole.
I love the initiative by big companies to bring graphic novels out and aim them at children/teen fiction market demographics. It's all good.
I used to run a comic shop nearly 15 years ago and had a hell of time convincing the owner to let me install shelves and order more graphic novels, he really loved all the comic boxes that dominated the shop so much that customers had to stand in single file - oh okay, wading through piles of dusty comics can be fun, sometimes.
I much prefer tpbs to comics, but try and buy in a supportive way. In many cases if people don't buy the pamphlets some titles might not get a collection or even last past the 3rd issue - the simply fantastic 'Poot' was cancelled and TCJ ran an article about it being an example of this mentaility.
But Walking Dead is a great example of a books that needs to be read in big chunks (snicker!) even though it's torture waiting for them to come out.
Mind you there's far too many comics that seem to be padded out to make sure they fit into books collections.
My ears are burning....
But in a good way though?
Take a look at fawcettcomix.blogspot.com Garen there's not a lot up at the moment but I think you'll really like what's there.
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