Working fine so far, I suppose.
Just took a picture. We'll see how it formats pics and stuff.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
an unprovoked rant about fiction.
I don't know why, but I decided to write an unprovoked rant about fiction. Here's the end result.
So much has been done with fiction. So many places and characters have been made up, sometimes as a struggling artist you get to wondering what the hell is there left to do anything with? How many more dragons can put the hurt on a knight trying to save something? What else can go wrong on a faraway planetary settlement? Can four women sitting around a cafe table set in NYC not end up sounding like one of a thousand scenes from Sex in the City? Maybe. Maybe not. You have a voice inside you. A way of telling things no one else can. Give 5 great authors the same damn plot outline to any classic tale of whatever and you know you'll get 5 great different stories back. Got an idea that you're worried is too similar to Grapes of Wrath? I say, Who cares? I say, Do it anyway. I say, If all the good shit's been used up, get the hell down on your knees and scrape up what's leftover and make something, anything, just don't give up and do nothing. If all you see is a literary wasteland, then write wasteland fiction. Hold nothing back.
I told myself once, I want to kill a whale with my bare hands, so I wrote a story about a whale's last day on earth. I was in Costco once and thought to myself, "I wonder, with the way society is getting more and more open about sex, (albeit slowly, thank God) if you'll be able to one day buy a sex robot here." So I wrote a story about a lonely guy who does. In writing this paragraph I asked myself could there be a dangerous alien species that are shaped like toilets? Sure there is, because I'm going to make it happen.
I don't, in the least, claim to be good at doing what I think is fiction writing. But I know I'm fucking amazing at writing MY fiction, because no one else in the world can.
So much has been done with fiction. So many places and characters have been made up, sometimes as a struggling artist you get to wondering what the hell is there left to do anything with? How many more dragons can put the hurt on a knight trying to save something? What else can go wrong on a faraway planetary settlement? Can four women sitting around a cafe table set in NYC not end up sounding like one of a thousand scenes from Sex in the City? Maybe. Maybe not. You have a voice inside you. A way of telling things no one else can. Give 5 great authors the same damn plot outline to any classic tale of whatever and you know you'll get 5 great different stories back. Got an idea that you're worried is too similar to Grapes of Wrath? I say, Who cares? I say, Do it anyway. I say, If all the good shit's been used up, get the hell down on your knees and scrape up what's leftover and make something, anything, just don't give up and do nothing. If all you see is a literary wasteland, then write wasteland fiction. Hold nothing back.
I told myself once, I want to kill a whale with my bare hands, so I wrote a story about a whale's last day on earth. I was in Costco once and thought to myself, "I wonder, with the way society is getting more and more open about sex, (albeit slowly, thank God) if you'll be able to one day buy a sex robot here." So I wrote a story about a lonely guy who does. In writing this paragraph I asked myself could there be a dangerous alien species that are shaped like toilets? Sure there is, because I'm going to make it happen.
I don't, in the least, claim to be good at doing what I think is fiction writing. But I know I'm fucking amazing at writing MY fiction, because no one else in the world can.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Egypt
I tried reading up on it last night to see what all the craziness is really coming from to try and get a nice fat worldly opinion of the junk that's going on over there and I fell asleep. I'm now afraid I'll fall asleep if I try looking it up again at all, so I'm just steering clear of the whole affair. Good luck good guys whichever ones you are.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Feeling Good
I don't know what it is, but I just feel this need to create lately. I don't want to create crap, but at the same time I know I'm no where near the level of drawing or writing that I need to be in order to pull that off. But all the same, I do understand I can't get to the good stuff, till I get through the bad stuff. So no more being a wuss about it. I just need to do it, and eventually the shit will start turning to gold. I obviously have been given a talent, and I think to ignore it for the simple fact that its not aesthetically pleasing to my own eyes would be to deny my creator the gift he's given me.
Basically since I've had a kid a lot of stuff on how I look at myself has changed.
Will I ever "make it" as a writer or visual artist? I don't know, but you know what, I'm going to be doing both for the rest of my life anyway, so don't worry about it being good, just make sure it comes into existence in the first place. There's plenty of works by people who have "made it" and I don't particularly like them, but lots of other people do. Do the work for the enjoyment of holding a completed thing in your hands. Enjoy life, and what you do within the confines OF that life. You only have so much time to do anything. And at the end of it you're really only judged on how well you treated those around you, so why rush anything. Don't make the fast food equivalent of something pretty to stare at or read. Make something substantial that leaves viewers or readers changed after.
Basically since I've had a kid a lot of stuff on how I look at myself has changed.
Will I ever "make it" as a writer or visual artist? I don't know, but you know what, I'm going to be doing both for the rest of my life anyway, so don't worry about it being good, just make sure it comes into existence in the first place. There's plenty of works by people who have "made it" and I don't particularly like them, but lots of other people do. Do the work for the enjoyment of holding a completed thing in your hands. Enjoy life, and what you do within the confines OF that life. You only have so much time to do anything. And at the end of it you're really only judged on how well you treated those around you, so why rush anything. Don't make the fast food equivalent of something pretty to stare at or read. Make something substantial that leaves viewers or readers changed after.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Damn, do I love me some new fonts
Couple days late in writing this, but I'm just now finally recovering. On January first of every year for awhile now Comicraft over at www.comicbookfonts.com has had a crazy sale. This year every font family in their catalog was $20.11 each. Last year (1/1/2010) their sale was $20.10 and next year if they hold the sale I'm sure the amount will be $20.12each.
I have only owned one style from them before and paid about $59 for it, so I was all over this thing. Below is a list of what I've aquired:
I got all International version if available due to my foolish dream of one day being fluent in French and should the need arise for me to lend my graphic skills in that language I won't be without the ability.
New year is off to a great start. Everyone's healthy and I have lots of work at NTE to keep me busy. Fun stuff all around.
I have only owned one style from them before and paid about $59 for it, so I was all over this thing. Below is a list of what I've aquired:
I got all International version if available due to my foolish dream of one day being fluent in French and should the need arise for me to lend my graphic skills in that language I won't be without the ability.
New year is off to a great start. Everyone's healthy and I have lots of work at NTE to keep me busy. Fun stuff all around.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Crazy, the power of actual marketing...
...or coincidence. Anyway, what happened was last week with a ho and a hum I checked my sales reports on Amazon's book store, nothing on both titles. Fine. That's okay. I don't need book sales at this point in my life to feed my family. Last night I check my reports, nothing on my "H3110" book, but I sold 2 copies at some point of my Whale story. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBDW
I tweeted about it, as such: wow. I sold 2 copies of http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBDW this month. anyone who's read it, please leave a review.
I usually check reports only once a week, but I decided to check this morning as well. I sold 1 more copy in the course of the night. If an idiot like myself can move a copy with one tweet, I wonder how many copies the big dogs can move from a single tweet.
I was looking at my debt last night and although it's been blasted to smithereens this year I'd still like to sell about 5,000 copies of my books to help get that debt gone.
Thanks folks,
- -S
I tweeted about it, as such: wow. I sold 2 copies of http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GJBDW this month. anyone who's read it, please leave a review.
I usually check reports only once a week, but I decided to check this morning as well. I sold 1 more copy in the course of the night. If an idiot like myself can move a copy with one tweet, I wonder how many copies the big dogs can move from a single tweet.
I was looking at my debt last night and although it's been blasted to smithereens this year I'd still like to sell about 5,000 copies of my books to help get that debt gone.
Thanks folks,
- -S
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