Mostly writing related stuff
Aug. 9th, 2008 11:34 amMeh, so yesterday I was up looking for the new SGA for half an hour before I thought to check and see if it was actually on. And, of course, it wasn't. I blame the Olympics. Speaking of, sadly, I failed my goal of not seeing a single second of coverage of these Olympics, as I caught some while flipping between two channels. Alas, perhaps that was a bit too quixotic. I can still go for my backup goal of not seeing a single minute of Olympics coverage. It's not anything to do with China. Oh, sure, I think it's a bit of an embarassment to the Olympics in general that it's there given all the crap they're doing, but really, I just hate the Olympics. Bores the hell out of me. I make the same goals every time it comes on, no matter where it set. Even if it was in Toronto this year as it should have been (thank you again, Mel Lastman), I'd still be avoiding it like the plague.
Still in a bit of a funk over the latest rejection. Even expected, it sucks and gets the self-doubt flowing. Sometimes I think I'm just not a good writer. Oh, sure, I think I've got a fairly good grasp on plot and even character motivations to an extent, and ideas up the wazoo, but when it comes down to actually putting it on paper it feels incredibly stilted to me. Maybe everyone feels that way about their whole work, like the whole 'tickling yourself' idea. Still, sometimes I wish I had a co-writer to work with. Of course, there's the fact that I'm incredibly socially stunted as it is and thus likely won't work well with another person in a working relationship that close, let alone being able to find one, so I'm kind of trapped. :P. Ah well.
Speaking of collaborative efforts, had I mentioned yet my idea for a wiki comic? I can't find it under my wiki tags, so I'll assume not. So, here it is, the Collaborative Wikicomic. Anyway, on a forum I frequent I had the thought of collaboratively creating an ongoing comic on a wiki basis - anybody could edit/contribute to the script, characters, plots, even art (although to prevent spam you do have to login). I thought it was a nifty idea that might lead to chaos, but beautiful chaos, and a lot of others at the forum agreed and seemed excited about it, except, once I put the wiki up, very few people did anything, and we never even got to the point of selecting a general plot. So, maybe the plot fizzled, but one of the principles of wiki is the solution to many problems is more people. So instead of limiting it to the forum, I decided to open it to the world. Still may not go anywhere but if anybody's interested, feel free to join in and spread the word.
Anyway, luckily I already did most of my writing for this cycle in advance before I got the rejection news, so the funk didn't knock too much extra wind out of my sails. Instead I might work on something silly, something that might help me work a bit on flow and non-stiltedness because it'll be one of the few creative muscles I'll be flexing, but has absolutely no hope of getting published without being sued.
Oh, and speaking of no hope of getting published, gah, self-mind, can you please stop plotting out Runaways story arcs in my head? These thoughts should go to the alternate universe version of me that was chosen to be the next writer. You can send over from him the material that was successful enough that he was even considered. :P
Still in a bit of a funk over the latest rejection. Even expected, it sucks and gets the self-doubt flowing. Sometimes I think I'm just not a good writer. Oh, sure, I think I've got a fairly good grasp on plot and even character motivations to an extent, and ideas up the wazoo, but when it comes down to actually putting it on paper it feels incredibly stilted to me. Maybe everyone feels that way about their whole work, like the whole 'tickling yourself' idea. Still, sometimes I wish I had a co-writer to work with. Of course, there's the fact that I'm incredibly socially stunted as it is and thus likely won't work well with another person in a working relationship that close, let alone being able to find one, so I'm kind of trapped. :P. Ah well.
Speaking of collaborative efforts, had I mentioned yet my idea for a wiki comic? I can't find it under my wiki tags, so I'll assume not. So, here it is, the Collaborative Wikicomic. Anyway, on a forum I frequent I had the thought of collaboratively creating an ongoing comic on a wiki basis - anybody could edit/contribute to the script, characters, plots, even art (although to prevent spam you do have to login). I thought it was a nifty idea that might lead to chaos, but beautiful chaos, and a lot of others at the forum agreed and seemed excited about it, except, once I put the wiki up, very few people did anything, and we never even got to the point of selecting a general plot. So, maybe the plot fizzled, but one of the principles of wiki is the solution to many problems is more people. So instead of limiting it to the forum, I decided to open it to the world. Still may not go anywhere but if anybody's interested, feel free to join in and spread the word.
Anyway, luckily I already did most of my writing for this cycle in advance before I got the rejection news, so the funk didn't knock too much extra wind out of my sails. Instead I might work on something silly, something that might help me work a bit on flow and non-stiltedness because it'll be one of the few creative muscles I'll be flexing, but has absolutely no hope of getting published without being sued.
Oh, and speaking of no hope of getting published, gah, self-mind, can you please stop plotting out Runaways story arcs in my head? These thoughts should go to the alternate universe version of me that was chosen to be the next writer. You can send over from him the material that was successful enough that he was even considered. :P