2022 Writing Log 25
Jul. 17th, 2022 07:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling- I started work on “They Only Come Out at Night,” a story about Kakariko Village that I’m contributing to a Legend of Zelda fanzine about the Sheikah. So far I have a solid story description and a decent opening section.
- I’m writing a review of Himawari House, which would be my favorite graphic novel of 2022 if Pixels of You hadn’t come out earlier this year. Himawari House is about a Japanese-American girl who takes a gap year before college to live in a share house in Tokyo while studying Japanese language. The marketing and back cover copy make the graphic novel sound cute and kitschy, but it’s bittersweet and heart-wrenching and brilliant. I mean, it’s definitely a slice-of-life comedy, but also you will cry. Not because anything bad happens, but because the world is so beautiful and beautifully complicated. I’ve been crying even as I write the review honestly.
- I finished editing and formatting my botanical horror zine. All the interior images are in place. The only thing I need now is the cover…
- …which Frankiesbugs is creating for me!! I am beyond honored. She’s already sent the initial design, and it is beyond brilliant.
- I finished a design for a “houseplant postcard,” which I posted on Tumblr (here). I also wrote about it on Dreamwidth (here).
- I drew a very sketchy and messy comic about guerilla gardening, which I posted on Tumblr (here). This comic is about the crimes I am willing to do in order to touch grass.
- I am still working on the last segment of my Cosmic Horror Hylia comic! Very slowly!!
I need to get this off my chest, so here’s some venting about what I’ve actually been doing this week:
- My department just had a staff turnover. This happened to coincide with a major overhaul to the online system we use for course listings and enrollment, so I had to do a lot of admin this week. This was not fun, and I kind of lost the will to live at some point.
- On top of that, there were problems with a lot of the Etsy orders I mailed out in June, and I spent a considerable amount of time this week trying to clean up the mess. USPS in Philadelphia is super unreliable, which isn’t something I can control, unfortunately. I’m trying to work out a new system for shipping, but it’s way more expensive and requires far more work. The situation seems hopeless, and I’m not sure there’s a solution aside from raising my prices and charging market rates for shipping.
I’ve been really depressed lately about living in a city where there is no grass and a neighborhood where there are no trees. Summer has always been my favorite season; but, if there are no plants to enjoy and nowhere to go for a walk outside, it’s just heat and mosquitos. I’ve been feeling literally and symbolically trapped, and I spent most of my “creative time” this week running around wild spaces in video games.
- I’m writing a review of Himawari House, which would be my favorite graphic novel of 2022 if Pixels of You hadn’t come out earlier this year. Himawari House is about a Japanese-American girl who takes a gap year before college to live in a share house in Tokyo while studying Japanese language. The marketing and back cover copy make the graphic novel sound cute and kitschy, but it’s bittersweet and heart-wrenching and brilliant. I mean, it’s definitely a slice-of-life comedy, but also you will cry. Not because anything bad happens, but because the world is so beautiful and beautifully complicated. I’ve been crying even as I write the review honestly.
- I finished editing and formatting my botanical horror zine. All the interior images are in place. The only thing I need now is the cover…
- …which Frankiesbugs is creating for me!! I am beyond honored. She’s already sent the initial design, and it is beyond brilliant.
- I finished a design for a “houseplant postcard,” which I posted on Tumblr (here). I also wrote about it on Dreamwidth (here).
- I drew a very sketchy and messy comic about guerilla gardening, which I posted on Tumblr (here). This comic is about the crimes I am willing to do in order to touch grass.
- I am still working on the last segment of my Cosmic Horror Hylia comic! Very slowly!!
I need to get this off my chest, so here’s some venting about what I’ve actually been doing this week:
- My department just had a staff turnover. This happened to coincide with a major overhaul to the online system we use for course listings and enrollment, so I had to do a lot of admin this week. This was not fun, and I kind of lost the will to live at some point.
- On top of that, there were problems with a lot of the Etsy orders I mailed out in June, and I spent a considerable amount of time this week trying to clean up the mess. USPS in Philadelphia is super unreliable, which isn’t something I can control, unfortunately. I’m trying to work out a new system for shipping, but it’s way more expensive and requires far more work. The situation seems hopeless, and I’m not sure there’s a solution aside from raising my prices and charging market rates for shipping.
I’ve been really depressed lately about living in a city where there is no grass and a neighborhood where there are no trees. Summer has always been my favorite season; but, if there are no plants to enjoy and nowhere to go for a walk outside, it’s just heat and mosquitos. I’ve been feeling literally and symbolically trapped, and I spent most of my “creative time” this week running around wild spaces in video games.
