1. RIFF
I'm happy to announce that I have finished writing the first draft of Riff. Technically it is the second draft because I hand-wrote the whole thing in two journals and changed some things as I typed them up. I did a pass for grammatical errors and spelling off the screne. I still need to read it on paper. I've printed it off in single spacing and tiny margains. It clocks in at 95 pages. That's just under 60,000 words, which is a bit short for a first novel (to be published), so I'll have to flesh it out before I consider querying anyone. As I start school on Monday, I think I'll wait before doing a second pass. I like to forget what I've written so that it's all new to me and easier to catch mistakes.
I have to say it's not half bad. I struggled with this novel more than any other. It was almost physically painful to write because I forced myself to finish before school starts. I don't know what that says about the quality, but it is just a down draft after all. It ended almost exactly how I planned, which never happens. I think it's because I wrote it in so little time, I didn't have time to get distracted by other ideas, which can be a good thing or a bad thing.
The more I think about it, the more irony I'm finding in the text that I didn't put in consciously, but it's perfect, really. One man spends the entire book trying to find out who killed this one guy, but in the end, he's the one that kills him again. I hadn't really put that together, but it's really cool. I don't think I'm even going to draw attention to it. You can figure that one out on your own.
2. Absorbing the Media
I've just saw the season finale of Life on Mars season 2. I thought it would be a rip off of Terry Pratchett's book Night Watch seeing as how the main characters are both named Sam, are police officers, and are accidentally sent thirty years into the past, but the show is actually really good. There's a coma aspect I hadn't known about. I've been watching Dr. Who and Torchwood reruns as well, and Graham Norton. Torchwood season 2 premier this Saturday, you know. I got some new movies too. Night Watch and Day Watch are phenominal. A Dog's Breakfast is good too. And A Fish Called Wanda. I also bought Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Kevin Klein).
I haven't been sitting in front of the TV the whole time, promise. I'm reading a book called A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. I recommend it to anyone. I'm only half through, though. And I read the first Return to Labyrinth graphic novel based on the Jim Henson movie. I've ordered the second, but B&N hasn't recieved it yet. The writing and art is perfect as far as staying true to the film.
I'm happy to announce that I have finished writing the first draft of Riff. Technically it is the second draft because I hand-wrote the whole thing in two journals and changed some things as I typed them up. I did a pass for grammatical errors and spelling off the screne. I still need to read it on paper. I've printed it off in single spacing and tiny margains. It clocks in at 95 pages. That's just under 60,000 words, which is a bit short for a first novel (to be published), so I'll have to flesh it out before I consider querying anyone. As I start school on Monday, I think I'll wait before doing a second pass. I like to forget what I've written so that it's all new to me and easier to catch mistakes.
I have to say it's not half bad. I struggled with this novel more than any other. It was almost physically painful to write because I forced myself to finish before school starts. I don't know what that says about the quality, but it is just a down draft after all. It ended almost exactly how I planned, which never happens. I think it's because I wrote it in so little time, I didn't have time to get distracted by other ideas, which can be a good thing or a bad thing.
The more I think about it, the more irony I'm finding in the text that I didn't put in consciously, but it's perfect, really. One man spends the entire book trying to find out who killed this one guy, but in the end, he's the one that kills him again. I hadn't really put that together, but it's really cool. I don't think I'm even going to draw attention to it. You can figure that one out on your own.
2. Absorbing the Media
I've just saw the season finale of Life on Mars season 2. I thought it would be a rip off of Terry Pratchett's book Night Watch seeing as how the main characters are both named Sam, are police officers, and are accidentally sent thirty years into the past, but the show is actually really good. There's a coma aspect I hadn't known about. I've been watching Dr. Who and Torchwood reruns as well, and Graham Norton. Torchwood season 2 premier this Saturday, you know. I got some new movies too. Night Watch and Day Watch are phenominal. A Dog's Breakfast is good too. And A Fish Called Wanda. I also bought Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Kevin Klein).
I haven't been sitting in front of the TV the whole time, promise. I'm reading a book called A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. I recommend it to anyone. I'm only half through, though. And I read the first Return to Labyrinth graphic novel based on the Jim Henson movie. I've ordered the second, but B&N hasn't recieved it yet. The writing and art is perfect as far as staying true to the film.
3. Drawing
There are some Riff drawings here:
I don't know why they didn't all load. :(
There are some other drawing's I've done lately too. Check out Deviant Art
