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the this-research-sucks update

Shashi — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:13:57 +0000

Novel: Still hate editing. Still need to do it. Bah.
I’m way behind where i want to be; i think i need to stop and figure out a better way to go about this.

Moving: I’m working on starting up a handmade jewellery business, which doesn’t seem very moving-related but if it works, it’s a job i’ll have regardless of where i live. I don’t expect full living-in-a-big-city income but anything helps.

Webcomic:Officially started. But i’m not marking it done until i reach twelve consecutive updates.

Two hundred sit-ups: Took the initial test on Sunday and reached an embarrassingly low twenty sit-ups. (I used to be able to do two hundred… bah.)

Researching adoption: Yup, still depressing.
In real-life adoption stories, a woman recently sent her adopted son back to Moscow with little more than a note explaining she didn’t want him any more. I could spend a long time ranting about this (as my mum, who has already been on the receiving end of quite a bit of ranting, can testify) but i really have nothing to say which isn’t already covered on multiple blogs by people who understand more about the situation than me.
In fictional adoption, i’m currently reading a train-wreck of a book which includes the cheerfully ludicrous line, ‘It’s not so hard to choose an adoptive family.’ (Lest anyone think the line is taken out of context, it’s said by a guy who is helping a rape victim choose a family for her son. Said birth mother clearly would prefer an open adoption, but in Badlyresearchedfictionland only closed adoptions exist. She’ll never see her kid, or meet his parents, or have anything to go on in making her choice but a few pages of dossier. It shouldn’t take a month of researching to realize there is nothing ‘not so hard’ about this situation.)

insert snarky cranky shura comment here

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So many scripts, so little time…

Shashi — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:24:10 +0000

Screnzy starts in a week and i have yet to decide what i’m actually writing :P

I have a novel from a few NaNos ago which i think would be better as a film or graphic novel.

And there’s the webcomic, for which i’ll have to do more scripts anyway – but a hundred pages? In one month? That’s probably going to end up as more than a year’s worth of comics. Seems a bit overkill.

I have an idea for an American Frost graphic novel, too, which i might post for sale or as a donor gift someday, but i want to spend some more time working on AF canon before i write it. So if i do anything AF, it’ll be the year+ of comic scripts.

Or i might do something entirely new and different, in which case i have no idea what i’m doing yet. Probably break out Tarot for Writers and my Russian tarot deck and just see what happens.

…eh. I think i’m leaning towards the massive amount of AF scripts. If i get bored of it i can always switch to the AF book.

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Comic: Stuff is Moving Forward :D

Shashi — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:02:20 +0000

Several scripts are written and ready to draw and several more strips are in various stages of half-done.

And i have the website now! Basically all i’ve done so far is install ComicPress and toss up the first comic so it’s not totally empty… so it still looks awful. But it’ll be nice and shiny by the time i properly start up (aiming for April 10th)

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Shoddy Pilot Webcomic

Shashi — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:47:30 +0000

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Timing out how long it takes me to do a comic so i have some idea of how much i can do. This one’s kind of a crappy script but i wanted to time everything, including the writing.

And, yeah, i should probably do a bunch of scripts and take an average, but i don’t feel like timing out a pile of script-writing :P So just the one, for now, and i’ll re-average after i actually know what i’m doing…

The final comic is going to be on a site layout where i can actually fit the whole thing at full size. And probably just lineart for at least the first few months, as adding even greyscale took up about half the comic-making time. I’ll save greys or colours for when i can actually do lineart in relatively brief time.