well well well, internets, how’ve you been?
work on The Fabled Bag continues. i’m about 1/3 of the way done with the final panel. i seriously cannot wait for this thing to be done. i’ve been working on it, what now, four months? three months? a bloody long time. too bloody long. not to mention the fact that my current bag is no longer working. i’ve moved on to half-sized notebooks for taking notes in, and w/out the backbone support, everything gets tumly and lost in there. The Fabled Bag (hereafter referred to as TFB) has pockets for cell phones, pens, my palm T|X my bag o’ drugs, my erasers, my ID cards, EVERYTHING! and i seriously cannot wait.
the other thing upon which work continues is my fiction! i’m in a workshopping class this quarter, so it pretty much has to. (^_^) i thought a cool thing to do would be to put the story i’m turning in (on tuesday! zomg!) up here, and then publish the results of thursday’s critique and my subsequent rewrites. it’s a story that’s already up elsewhere, but i’m pretty sure i’ve never put it up here. it’s called INITIAL STATIC, and it’s the first of … about a half-dozen that i’ve got planned, three or four that i’ve actually written … concerning a young man by the name of Jonathan Parker. or at least that’s what his name starts out as. over the (many many) years of his life, he changes last names with alarming frequency, probably precipitated by the alarming frequency with which his life is put in danger. (^_^) INITIAL STATIC is the first one chronologically, the second one i had the idea for, and the first one i actually managed to write, so i think it’s a little lacking in the characterization department. i’ve gone over it a few times in prep for tuesday’s passing out (ahahah) but i still think jonathan’s character isn’t clear.
anyhow, here’s how it’s going to work. i’m going to post the story right after i finish this post, but i’m not going to look at any comments posted on it until thursday. then i’ll make another post with a summary of what gets said in class, and then i’ll start the re-write. then i’ll post whatever i end up with after i finish it. so go ahead and let me know what you think of it. something juicy, people, i’m not looking for your basic “wow it was great” crap, i don’t really care what you thought of it. what i want to know is how to make it better. no one has yet produced a perfect piece of fiction, and i sure a hell ain’t gonna do it now, so let me know how to improve! thanks~
in other news, i’ve been checking out the seredipity weblogging system. it seems pretty cool, except i’m not smart enough to figure out how to port all my blogger posts over to it. it says it does rss feeds as well as blogger backup files, i just can’t get it. (T_T) of course i have yet to finish reading the super in-depth manal pages. (^^;) the other thing i can’t figure out is how to make it one column. i have a new design in mind, and it’s only got one column, but i haven’t even started reading the section on template design. i was thinking for a while about going to wordpress, but you know you can’t change the template w/out either paying or doing the version that you have to upload to your own server? well, if i’m gonna have to upload something to my server, i figure i might as well go straight to the uber advanced. not like i can’t code for crying out loud. if i do eventually get it figured out, this blogger blog would be just a page saying, hey i’ve changed blogging systems. not that blogger hasn’t been great, a) i’m a google whore, and b) i’ve got 110+ posts on this thing, but i’m looking for something a little more advanced now. course if it turns out that Advanced is a little too ADVANCED, i’ll end up right back here at good ol’ blogger. (^_^)
oh yeah, also? i’ve decided what i’m getting myself for a graduation present. a G1 Android. because they are teh awesomes.
eh? i’m not graduating for eleven more months?
… so?
