Friday, November 27, 2009

How did it escape me?

See two posts ago for my grand ambitions. They sadly fell away for the most part. I have still been a bit productive this month but not anywhere near as productive as I wanted. I quit NaNoWriMo a while ago with a decent 11k words to my name. I'm working on the story in bits and phases here, but I am struggling trying to get some of the other characters to do anything of interest. I have the mad scientist down pat, since well fuck he's a goddamn mad scientist and is awesome fun to write, but he's not the main character. So until I get some of the rest of the cast's voices down I must wait on it. Most of my writings dealing with it are attempts to nail a voice and personality down, usually they end up tossed. It is a bit tiresome.

I have signed up for schooling, and apparently my shitty year of no income qualifies me for a huge amount of grants, at least compared to the community college fees. They projected 6k for me online, classes will take about a thousand at MOST even with books. We will see how well I do with computers when it comes to schooling. Kind of wish I had gotten a chance to apply to grad school, but no money means I can't take the test or do the application fee. If I hate computer classes I apply a month in with my fat grant monies.

I have been drawing. Which is odd. Because I don't draw, not anymore. I've settled on wanting to fuck around and post things online once I get a bit more consistant in drawing the same thing over and over again. It won't be the best of art, but it's the internet, tons of shitty pieces of art get put on it every day. It also saves my sanity when I can't nail a damn character for a story I have outlined out!

Hmm what else? Oh Zombie Conversational will premiere in March 2010. Or I will personally set fire to the scripts we have. This has been agreed upon by the co-creator and co-everything else in the project. I concede the next month because he works retail.

Also trying to work out the details for an anthology project. Still hammering things out, including a list of people to contact. I have found I like collaborating with people on projects but always worried about approaching others about trying something out.

Hmm all things considered November wasn't all THAT bad, not at the point I was aiming for, but still a decent point none the less.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Thank you one and all

So it is very minor, but I actually have an audience. This is a very strange idea for me. I got a bit accustomed to some people stumbling upon my Associated Content articles and such but those are usually hastily written and on various subjects that someone on the internet will find them ammusing.

I mean that I post things on twitter and people actually check them out. Thanks to the lovely little tool of bit.ty I can tell how many people check out what I connect to. This averages around 12 people checking it out. I just think that is very neat. It's not huge numbers but I want to thank whoever those 12 people are for giving whatever I link (sometimes my writing usually something someone else created I want to share) a try. So thanks everyone!

In other news, I have an outline for NaNoWriMo. I need to get to working on it. I'm trying not to write after 8PM though. Which is a bit of a hindrance since I keep waking up so fucking late in the day. Sigh.

But I persevere anyways.

Monday, November 9, 2009

November is for creating

This month I am trying to keep on task. I have promised myself to work on some creative endeavorer every day of the month. This can be most anything. I have spent this last week working on coming up with t shirt ideas, messing with scripts for an online show, and being part of NaNoWriMo.

Thus far I would say it's been a success for me. I feel I'm accomplishing something and I have solid things to show for it. Sure most of them are typed words that need to be edited a lot for any other human being to lay eyes on them. But I'm accomplishing something in my time instead of just clicking across the internet and doing nothing.

Now I still have yet to reach a point of progress where I am content with continuing that output. I am wanting to get to the point where I'm dedicating 3-5 hours a day on work. And then take a day a week off and just putz around if I feel like it. Currently it's about an hour or two a day that I actually get anything done. My eventual goal is to have people actually look at what I've created and enjoy it. If I can make a little bit of money off ads or sales, even better. But first thing is the creating. Then editing and sharing, followed by tons of marketing. But Novemeber is just dedicated to creation.

This week I hope to get caught up on NaNo (I'm a bit behind after scrapping the 5 thousand words I had on day three), get the intro video for Zombie Conversational filmed so we can get that moving along, and have a rough draft for another show called Ask Lazul (until we come up with a better title). I will check in next week to report if I've pulled any or all of these off.