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ellenmillionI am triumphant! I have taken the coding project I have been poking at, beaten it sideways into shape, cleaned it up, and have turned it into something elegant and clever. All a day ahead of schedule! I feel quite chuffed with myself. I have also leveled up in loops. Significantly.
Tomorrow, locals can see some of my work and buy my coloring books at the First Friday at the Alaska Center for Natural Medicine. I will not be able to attend in person, but the lovely folks at the center will have a table with my work available. (There will be at one other artist featured, as well!)
Tomorrow is also Sketch Fest: http://ellenmilliongraphics.com/sketchfest/
If I can manage two sketches, I will have made my year's goal for getting two for each Sketch Fest in 2013. That is admittedly a modest goal, but one I feel pretty good about accomplishing.
On that same list of goals, I have a whole lot of unmet writing goals. One I think I can reasonably still make is the short story count: "25 short stories - at least 15 of which should be Torn World Big Plot stories and 2 of which should NOT be Torn World stories." I currently have 19, all of the Torn World Big Plot stories. I did exactly NO writing in October or November. I was pretty burnt out on the series and got some legitimate but discouraging feedback that the last bits weren't much of a page-turner. I have gone back and found a few nice comments that were left throughout the earlier installments, and refreshed myself on the plot, so I hope to get back in and spice them up a little, as well as get the rest done, but I'm not going to tackle that until next year. That leaves me 6 stories - 2 of which should NOT be Torn World. I could count the story I wrote for RTH that ended up being set in the wrong time and all backwards-like... if I do, there are still 5 due. I am going to aim for some flash fiction - maybe even drabbles. Maybe Jenny/Bjorn things? I feel writing-rusty. Any requests? I won't do anything formal like a prompt call, but if there's a sequel, prequel, fandom or anything that you'd like to see something short in, just ask!
In Guppy-stories, she's started saying "EW" when she wants her diaper changed, which is silly and funny, but totally appropriate. We count everything now, but she's sort of stuck on two and five, with the occasional guess of nine. Also, she doesn't like ham. This may be the first meat she doesn't like.
Tomorrow, locals can see some of my work and buy my coloring books at the First Friday at the Alaska Center for Natural Medicine. I will not be able to attend in person, but the lovely folks at the center will have a table with my work available. (There will be at one other artist featured, as well!)
Tomorrow is also Sketch Fest: http://ellenmilliongraphics.com/sketchfest/
If I can manage two sketches, I will have made my year's goal for getting two for each Sketch Fest in 2013. That is admittedly a modest goal, but one I feel pretty good about accomplishing.
On that same list of goals, I have a whole lot of unmet writing goals. One I think I can reasonably still make is the short story count: "25 short stories - at least 15 of which should be Torn World Big Plot stories and 2 of which should NOT be Torn World stories." I currently have 19, all of the Torn World Big Plot stories. I did exactly NO writing in October or November. I was pretty burnt out on the series and got some legitimate but discouraging feedback that the last bits weren't much of a page-turner. I have gone back and found a few nice comments that were left throughout the earlier installments, and refreshed myself on the plot, so I hope to get back in and spice them up a little, as well as get the rest done, but I'm not going to tackle that until next year. That leaves me 6 stories - 2 of which should NOT be Torn World. I could count the story I wrote for RTH that ended up being set in the wrong time and all backwards-like... if I do, there are still 5 due. I am going to aim for some flash fiction - maybe even drabbles. Maybe Jenny/Bjorn things? I feel writing-rusty. Any requests? I won't do anything formal like a prompt call, but if there's a sequel, prequel, fandom or anything that you'd like to see something short in, just ask!
In Guppy-stories, she's started saying "EW" when she wants her diaper changed, which is silly and funny, but totally appropriate. We count everything now, but she's sort of stuck on two and five, with the occasional guess of nine. Also, she doesn't like ham. This may be the first meat she doesn't like.
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Date: 2013-12-06 04:06 am (UTC)Re: writing prompts: what about some sketchfest pieces as prompts? There've been any number that've gone by that I've looked at and said "that needs a story!"
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Date: 2013-12-06 07:50 am (UTC)You've done amazingly well with your art and writing goals, Ellen. Don't knock it. *hugs*
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Date: 2013-12-06 09:58 pm (UTC)