Did a little playing with Photoshop today. Just fooling around to see where it would take. Ended up in a very 2001: A Space Odyssey sort of visual space…
I can see how this can get very addictive…to the point of absurdity. Still.…
DISTAL MUSE – OBSERVATIONS, OPINIONS, EPHEMERA, & VIEWS
Did a little playing with Photoshop today. Just fooling around to see where it would take. Ended up in a very 2001: A Space Odyssey sort of visual space…
I can see how this can get very addictive…to the point of absurdity. Still.…
This morning I completed the second draft of the new murder mystery, The Drowned Doll. The first draft came in at about 70,000 words, this one is just shy of 93,000, which is right about where I wanted it.
I then got dressed and went to the gym. January has been abysmally cold, so I haven’t been going. I used to be very susceptible to colds at below 25 degrees, and although I’m not so much anymore, I still draw the line at 10 degrees and stay home. It’s been push-ups and aerobics for the last few weeks. This week the weather broke a bit and it’s been up in the 30s and 40s. …
Okay, so I contributed to the James Cameron Self Love Fund and saw AVATAR. Yesterday we went to the 3-D showing (no way I would spend money on the normal view, I can wait for the DVD the way I do with 99% of the movies I see anymore). I’ve had a day to think about it now and I’ve come to some conclusions, which are hardly profound, but I think worth saying.
Let me say up front that I wasn’t bored. Visually, this is a stunning achievement. But that’s what everyone is saying. It is, in fact, the best 3-D I’ve ever seen. …
Starting off on a positive step, I’ve made a change on the site. Not much of a one, but it could lead to something special.
The Art page has been static for some time now. Technical issues among other things. But I decided to move the art to a site that can give me a little better control and offer the possibility of expanding this part of my creative life. Take the plunge, go for it, I say, put your stuff out there where people can see it.
So over the weekend, with a bit of help from my webmaster, I changed the Art link to a hosting site that offers a nicer look and some bells and whistles. …
Annual reassessments are dicey things. If you have a terrific year, they can sound like bragging, which would be nice for a change. If you had an absolutely lousy year, they sound like whining, something I do enough of as it is.
On the other hand, they can be autobiographical in instances where the possibility of anyone (including yourself) ever doing an “official†biography is next to nil. In this instance, honesty is called for, the kind most people rarely indulge in public. It gives one pause to consider the responsibility latent in such an enterprise.
But, as they say, it’s my blog and I’ll bloody well write what I want.…
Since I’m in the process of penning a contemporary murder mystery, I thought it might be a good idea to trade in the silver space suit with shoulder flashes and Flash Gordon ray gun for a more up-to-date image. Last week, Donna and I had some fun doing new photos. One of them will end up being a new bio image for conventions, interviews, and the like, but I had wanted something with a bit more panache, a bit more attitude, a bit more…
Well, I like this. I don’t think it would be suitable for Christmas Cards, but it’s kind of fun in the direction I was attempting.…
This week is all about the new novel, which I began cutting on Monday. I’m almost through chapter five now and it feels…good.
I don’t know how else to put it, but it flows well. Yes, there’s fixing needs doing and I’m rewriting swaths of it, but basically it looks okay. As I hoped when I finished the first draft a week and a half ago, I mainly have to add detail.
So I’ve been working at it most of today. By hand. I’m going out tonight, despite the awful wind and cold, to see a friend of mine, Sharon Shinn, speak at a local library. …
I have to write a new bio. I’ve been needing to do this for some time. I had a few prepared bios for conventions and such, tailored depending on who I sent them to. Magazine bios, con bios, conference bios…they all required a bit of tweaking. But they’re all pretty much out of date.
I’m going to do this during the coming week. Cull through all the details that would seem to make me an important person, someone people might wish to come listen to or see. I have a difficult time with these, which is why I write most all of them in third person. …
One of the trips we don’t make anymore is south to Atlanta. When our good friends Kelley and Nicola lived there, we went down a few times, most notably for their wedding. That trip was an adventure. We often make long drives at night. Donna is good at the wheel in the dark (I fall asleep, no matter how much caffeine or hours of napping beforehand) and it chews up mileage during a period when not much else is happening. It also afford us sunrises on the road, which can often be spectacular…or just profound.
The trip down for their wedding took us through a storm. …
Over on her blog, Kelley Eskridge has a video of a “Bono Moment” in which you see two distinct types of fans interacting with U2’s lead singer. Check it out and come back here.
Okay, the guy in the t-shirt obviously is carrying on a conversation. he may be being a fan, but he hasn’t lost his mind. The female is being…a groupie, I guess. Though the groupies I’ve met in my time have been a bit more specific about what they wanted and had a better plan on how to get it. In any event, the questions Kelley raises are interesting and relate on so many levels to so many different things. …