I have now refreshed the three excerpts on my webpage (may have to hit “reload” to get the latest versions dated 9/04/10).
I’m considering removing the “book” from the webpage. I might replace it with a different graphic but haven’t decided yet.
Work continues.
The Soho chapter grew by a considerable amount. Normally I’d be worried because I’m looking for quality, not quantity, but in this case the changes are very much for the better. I changed a lot of the “tell” to “show” which, of course, changed the overall tone of the chapter. It’s less “Animal House” hijinks and more honest commentary on a real-life experience, and I believe that to be a good thing.
As I said elsewhere today, I’ll see your Whale and raise you U2, Louis Armstrong, and James Brown.
I’ve taken the deep breath I needed and now am kicking Soho’s ass, as it should be. I figured out the problems and started working them out and, immediately, the writing took off. More detail in as few words as possible is lighting this on fire, and I feel good.
I’m still having trouble with this chapter. I arrive in London to spend the night and am thinking I want to explore (since I have the time), and explore I certainly do. The chapter also includes my flying out to Saudi Arabia the following day and maybe I’m just having trouble handling the contrasts and similarities poorly. I dunno – hope I figure it out soon though.
I’m still working on the Soho chapter, though I’m at the tail end of it now, the part where I arrive in Saudi Arabia for Christmas. I’d forgotten just how draconian the Saudi customs can be. While one customs dude was pawing my computer magazines looking for naked women, another handling the other line went nuts because some guy had wrapped Christmas presents in his luggage. “Whiskey!” the guy shouted, ripping open one of the packages. Turned out to be a box of liqueur chocolates. “Whiskey! Whiskey!”. My guy found an “offensive” picture in my computer magazine, took out his big black magic marker and went to town.
Gearing up for something completely different. Yesterday I put pencil to paper and scratched out my first conceptual drawing.
I figured out what I needed in the current chapter. As it was, there were two different, unrelated ideas happening. I needed to link the beginning to the end, and I’ve now managed to do just that. Whether what I came up with is any good or not I won’t know until I do the read through, but it has the right ingredients.
Moving from Soho to computers and giving the transition some thought. Came upon this ad that made me chuckle.
I revamped a visit to Soho and improved it quite a bit, but there’s still work needed. Still too much tell so I’ll be working on that today. Also need to add that Soho is not just about sex, and not everyone in Soho is looking for sex. Could be Soho is simply over rated? Na, but could be. 😉
While I managed to get a lot done yesterday, today was a different story. Took the dog to the vet bright and early this morning to have a tumor removed. We’ll know in the near future whether it was benign or not (we’re obviously hoping for the best). We also went ahead and had a wart-like grown removed from her eye-lid so regardless of what the test results come back with, she’ll at least be more comfortable. Right now Fubar is very chilled out (as expected), lying beside where I’m sitting.
