Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Updates - 04-25-06
Sorry about the lack of updates. March was a busy non-writing related month. April's been very productive for me, but I was out of town, and thus unable to communicate. :D.
While on my trip (to California with my wife to visit her brother and his family), I read a pretty interesting bio on Elmore Leonard, dealing specifically with this early writing life. He made a point about writing "two pages every day before coffee."
Not being able to think/live without coffee, I instead have adopted the rule of writing two pages while drinking coffee and before doing anything else. In addition, I've started using a laptop that has no games and no internet connection to allow me to type without distraction.
This has allowed me to complete the following:
- Typed up Chapter 6, started Chapter 7.
- Completely rewrote Chapter 9. Finished it, then started on Chapter 10.
- Revised a large chunk of the outline, started a massive redraw of the map.
- Created a "Details" file to help keep me organized.
While I'm at it, lemmie give you a quick update on the comedy front. I've written several more pieces, but we've yet to actually get together as a "comedy troupe" to talk about it. I dunno much beyond that.
On the Café Bitterness front, I've finally got flash installed, and I've been sketching out ideas. I'd feel a lot more confident if I had an acceptable "Jimmy" voice. Mine comes out to be very nasally, whereas jimmy's voice should be very...smooth?
Anyways, I'll try to post more regularly (weekly?).
See ya later
--Joe ¶ 9:38 AM
Sorry about the lack of updates. March was a busy non-writing related month. April's been very productive for me, but I was out of town, and thus unable to communicate. :D.While on my trip (to California with my wife to visit her brother and his family), I read a pretty interesting bio on Elmore Leonard, dealing specifically with this early writing life. He made a point about writing "two pages every day before coffee."
Not being able to think/live without coffee, I instead have adopted the rule of writing two pages while drinking coffee and before doing anything else. In addition, I've started using a laptop that has no games and no internet connection to allow me to type without distraction.
This has allowed me to complete the following:
- Typed up Chapter 6, started Chapter 7.
- Completely rewrote Chapter 9. Finished it, then started on Chapter 10.
- Revised a large chunk of the outline, started a massive redraw of the map.
- Created a "Details" file to help keep me organized.
While I'm at it, lemmie give you a quick update on the comedy front. I've written several more pieces, but we've yet to actually get together as a "comedy troupe" to talk about it. I dunno much beyond that.
On the Café Bitterness front, I've finally got flash installed, and I've been sketching out ideas. I'd feel a lot more confident if I had an acceptable "Jimmy" voice. Mine comes out to be very nasally, whereas jimmy's voice should be very...smooth?
Anyways, I'll try to post more regularly (weekly?).
See ya later
--Joe ¶ 9:38 AM
