Preview of coming distractions
Jan. 24th, 2010 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bnewmanI haven't posted here in a long time. I'd like that to change (okay — it just changed, 'cause I just posted — I mean I'd like the trend to change!). A number of my LJ friends have taken on a practice of posting at least something very regularly, but I'm not going to do that because what I really need is to maintain my LJ/website/whatever as a creative outlet, and my creativity usually comes out in bigger chunks than that.
It's been an eventful winter so far, and looks likely to be an eventfulyear 2.5 years going forwards. To avoid a single long post that I never finish, here's a brief overview looking both back and forward:
Gatherings
• OVFF, a major filk convention in Ohio
• Christmas as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fiddledragon's parents' house
• MagFest, a vide game/music con (and my first non-filk niche con)
• Arisia, the Dionysian pole of the Boston general SF con scene (Boskone, the Appolonian pole, is in a few weeks)
Things I've learned
• People appreciate receiving my pipe cleaner critters as gifts.
• People will give me money in exchange for pipe cleaner critters.
• Among my critter designs are a good selection which can be made quickly and reliably.
• I know what I want to do when Igrow up need to get a real job.
• If I play the next 2.5 years right, I can come out much better qualified for all of the top 3-5 jobs on my list.
• An "idea for a novel" works better if it has characters and a plot, as well as a setting.
Creative output I'll post soon
• Pictures of a selection of my 3D art
• A synopsis of a novel I might actually write
• A dirt cheap laser beam-spreader
• Three different visual or map-based storytelling games
• A few new songs
Plus the details of the above-hinted-at 2.5-year plan, a possible website overhaul (eventually!), and more...?
It's been an eventful winter so far, and looks likely to be an eventful
Gatherings
• OVFF, a major filk convention in Ohio
• Christmas as
fiddledragon's parents' house• MagFest, a vide game/music con (and my first non-filk niche con)
• Arisia, the Dionysian pole of the Boston general SF con scene (Boskone, the Appolonian pole, is in a few weeks)
Things I've learned
• People appreciate receiving my pipe cleaner critters as gifts.
• People will give me money in exchange for pipe cleaner critters.
• Among my critter designs are a good selection which can be made quickly and reliably.
• I know what I want to do when I
• If I play the next 2.5 years right, I can come out much better qualified for all of the top 3-5 jobs on my list.
• An "idea for a novel" works better if it has characters and a plot, as well as a setting.
Creative output I'll post soon
• Pictures of a selection of my 3D art
• A synopsis of a novel I might actually write
• A dirt cheap laser beam-spreader
• Three different visual or map-based storytelling games
• A few new songs
Plus the details of the above-hinted-at 2.5-year plan, a possible website overhaul (eventually!), and more...?
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Date: 2010-01-24 11:15 pm (UTC)Glad to hear that things seem to be going well for you.
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Date: 2010-01-24 11:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-24 11:38 pm (UTC)I've often joked that I don't write novels, I just write the appendices of novels and the filksongs based on them. This is in part because even a strongly narrative song can get away with omitting a lot of details that would be missed in a prose treatment of the same story. A few of my story hooks have gradually acquired that much detail and become "complete" in a novelistic sense — "Walk in the Day" is one. I have a better idea of which thread of the Storytellers' World is "central", and might start doing something with that once I've got it nailed down a bit more and can convince myself that it will make sense, but I'll need to make some hard decisions about where to place it relative to my cultural comfort zone.
More about the new story concept in its own post, soon...
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Date: 2010-01-24 11:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-24 11:45 pm (UTC)Dreaming of visiting the great but increasingly mysterious Bay State, but I don't know when that might be in the cards.
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Date: 2010-01-25 12:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-25 02:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-25 07:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-26 04:46 am (UTC)::hugs::