Work This Week: Sept 7, 2009
September 6th, 2009
I like the idea of summarizing my projects every week and saying what I’ll be up to for the next little while. So here’s the first incarnation of that maybe-weekly-update. I imagine it’ll get more informative/interesting when I have more projects going on, but it’s a pretty clear Summeryear week coming up.
SUMMERYEAR
- Giving up the wait for two remaining beta readers. Kind of annoyed with them both. Won’t mention names.
- Going to start the second edit on Monday, and that’ll likely take me a week or two. After that, I’ll send a copy to one or two new (or old, if they want) beta readers for any final suggestions. Then, I’ll give it one more quick read through and edit and send it off into the world of agents and publishers and rejection letters. Which reminds me…I still need to research publishing houses and the like. Probably while the last beta readers have their copies.
- In case I forgot to mention, I have a deadline for myself on Halloween to have it ready to send out.
RUSALKA
- Outlining/writing is being put (mostly) on hold while I edit Summeryear. I’m going to try to isolate at least a half hour or so to brainstorm and keep the ideas fresh in my mind during that time.
SUNTAMER (painting/tutorial)
- Hoping to finish the painting within the week. I’m not entirely sure if that’ll happen, but we’ll see. This is the most time I’ve spent on one piece before, so I’m trying to make it as close to perfect as possible.
- After the painting is finished, I’m going to use the process screenshots to write a digital painting tutorial for deviantART and here. Never done that before, so we’ll see how it goes.
THOUGHTY GOBBETS
- I made a bit show of explaining what a thoughty gobbet was, and of course haven’t actually posted any yet. I’ll get to it. Didn’t have time because I was out of town this past week. That’s definitely on the to-do list for probably Monday or Tuesday. I’ve got a few topics I think would make interesting posts.
Until next week.
Cheers.
Summeryear is a story that came to me in one ecstatic moment some time around the beginning of February 2009. My then-boyfriend was describing a worldwide, year-long, see-everything-”real”, hostels-only trip he was considering. The phrase that came to me then was ‘Summeryear – chase the season’ and my characters sprung out fully-formed, albeit a little shallow at the time. I imagined teenagers who resolved to travel across the globe after high school, following the summer season throughout their destinations. Before they graduated, however, they would instead push themselves into a world of anarchy by their own impatience to leave and their loathing for the lack of culture they found in North America.