2017 Weekly Writing Log, Part 40
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rynling- This week I continued writing rec letters, and I also wrote a handful of performance reports evaluating my colleagues that should help with their promotion. I don't know what the sudden rush in requests for me to be a referee is about, but I also wrote a few academic peer reviews (which were for excellent essays, thank goodness). All told this amounted to about 15k words. This counts as writing, right? Right??
- Honestly if my actual job were Nanowrimo I would be half done already, and it's not even a full week into the month. I'm always joking about how I'm leaning out of my career, but what I mean is that I'm working sixty-hour weeks instead of seventy-hour weeks. I therefore scheduled an appointment with the boss man to see if maybe we can figure something out where I work fifty-hour weeks like a normal person. I mean, I do in fact want to write novelsthat have nothing to do with Zelda games, and I'm not getting any younger. My meeting is this coming Friday... Wish me luck I guess?
- This summer I got a piece on gender and horror accepted into an essay collection, but the editor is being kind of weird and racist about it, and if there's any justice in the world what looks kind of gross in 2017 is going to look even more gross when the book finds its way into print in two or three years. I therefore put the essay through one more set of edits and submitted it to another venue. I'm 75% certain that this won't succeed, but it doesn't hurt to try.
- I finally returned to my BotW Zelgan fic The Price of Wisdom, and I'm averaging about 250 words a day, which I believe was Tolkien's daily wordcount when he was writing Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, The Price of Wisdom is not Lord of the Rings, and at this point I just want the damn story to be done.
- I finished my second Fabriano sketchbook in two months! I've been using these to practice anatomy and rough shading effects, using a fine-point Stabilo marker for my linework and Kuretake Zig shadow markers for color blocking. The results are fucking awful, but I see this as necessary level grinding. This week I also finished my first Mossery sketchbook, which contains high-quality paper that I can use to practice inking and coloring with Copic markers. The drawings in the Mossery sketchbook are a bit nicer to look at, and I've been posting phone photos of some of the less embarrassing pages on Instagram. I haven't really gained any followers because of my art posts, but at the very least I seem to be amusing my friends. Or they just feel bad for me? That is a subtle distinction that I do not care to make.
- I was afraid that InDesign was not going to be plug and play, and in fact it most definitely is not. I finally bit the bullet and opened the program, though, and I've started putting time into it. This process is painful, but hopefully in a week or two I will have a nice zine of Zelda comics to take to the printer.
- Honestly if my actual job were Nanowrimo I would be half done already, and it's not even a full week into the month. I'm always joking about how I'm leaning out of my career, but what I mean is that I'm working sixty-hour weeks instead of seventy-hour weeks. I therefore scheduled an appointment with the boss man to see if maybe we can figure something out where I work fifty-hour weeks like a normal person. I mean, I do in fact want to write novels
- This summer I got a piece on gender and horror accepted into an essay collection, but the editor is being kind of weird and racist about it, and if there's any justice in the world what looks kind of gross in 2017 is going to look even more gross when the book finds its way into print in two or three years. I therefore put the essay through one more set of edits and submitted it to another venue. I'm 75% certain that this won't succeed, but it doesn't hurt to try.
- I finally returned to my BotW Zelgan fic The Price of Wisdom, and I'm averaging about 250 words a day, which I believe was Tolkien's daily wordcount when he was writing Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, The Price of Wisdom is not Lord of the Rings, and at this point I just want the damn story to be done.
- I finished my second Fabriano sketchbook in two months! I've been using these to practice anatomy and rough shading effects, using a fine-point Stabilo marker for my linework and Kuretake Zig shadow markers for color blocking. The results are fucking awful, but I see this as necessary level grinding. This week I also finished my first Mossery sketchbook, which contains high-quality paper that I can use to practice inking and coloring with Copic markers. The drawings in the Mossery sketchbook are a bit nicer to look at, and I've been posting phone photos of some of the less embarrassing pages on Instagram. I haven't really gained any followers because of my art posts, but at the very least I seem to be amusing my friends. Or they just feel bad for me? That is a subtle distinction that I do not care to make.
- I was afraid that InDesign was not going to be plug and play, and in fact it most definitely is not. I finally bit the bullet and opened the program, though, and I've started putting time into it. This process is painful, but hopefully in a week or two I will have a nice zine of Zelda comics to take to the printer.
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Date: 2017-11-06 11:50 pm (UTC)Good luck on making your work life balance more reasonable!
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Date: 2017-11-09 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
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