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I hath tweeted:

• 09:37 Weight, self-image, and a meaty mermaid: ellenmillion.livejournal.com/920705.html #
• 15:38 bit.ly/FM1m
  Zombie ants! OMG! #

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City of Lights - musing out loud

So, I'm looking at City of Lights, which is a major 'this is how the world works' piece responsible for setting up the entire Torn World plot line and is the lynchpin of the entire project, and I've figured out why I haven't finished it:

I used the wrong characters.

It has several other flaws: poor pacing, weak tension, shallow dialogue... but fixing these would really not FIX it.

The POV characters I picked were throw-aways. They show up nowhere else in the plotline, and they don't contribute anything to the story. Nothing. Whereas, it would be valuable to use this piece to introduce our Major Players, and give them some motivation and backstory before we jump into the "here-and-now".

I think that I had originally planned to do more with the original characters, but never did. Oh well!

I don't think much, if any, of the original writing is salvageable, but at least I know what's WRONG now.

*starts over with gusto*

ACEOs for sale, watercolor brushes and cutting up artwork...

I took scissors to some older artwork today.

Literally... and carefully.

These are pieces of artwork that I sort of liked bits of, but that didn't work as a whole for me at all.

And, because I need decent watercolor brushes in a major way (all mine are cheap AND well-used, and contribute greatly to my general frustration with color), I'm trying a fundraising experiment!



(Click them to see larger versions)

I'm asking $20 each for Phoenix 2, Messenger 1 and Messenger 2.
$15 for Phoenix 1, Faerywoods 1, Atlantis 1, Faerywoods 3, Window 2.
$10 each for Messenger 3, Window 1 (CLEAVAGE!), Atlantis 2 and Atlantis 3.
$5 each for Messenger 7 and Faerywoods 2.
$2 each for the rest.

Domestic shipping is included in each price, international adds .50! Comment, email or contact me in one of the gazillion ways you know how to claim. First come, first served. Each one will be signed and titled, no prints will ever be made.

I will also consider trades, but since I'm trying to earn towards some nice brushes (which are holy bajeebuz expensive), cash will be given preference.

I am also planning to chop up : The Morrigan. I already have it sketched into awesome little bits, but if any of you guys are interested in the un-snipped-up original, please let me know ASAP. It will make 6 great ACEOs, so I'd like to get $120 for it. (There is a wing in the clouds that I photoshopped out for the book version shown here, I will show you the unadulterated scan if you ask.)

Rapunzel and Mermaid

( Some artwork in progress... )