Tag: Update

Well the website stuff seems to be moving on more and more as I get the hang of stuff, all the pages I intended to sort out are now complete, with content and navigation etc., etc., plus I have submitted it to Google for them to index, along with a sitemap, so hopefully, eventually, this site will come up on a google search of my name (though that require muchos linking to me by other sites of similar content, so if you’ve got an artsy website, link me up! and I’ll return the favour).

Quick warning, these blogs are so far mainly streams of consciousness, so be wary of spelling and grammar, and don’t expect beautiful sentence structure either.

On the 3rd draft of Being Someone Else front, I have a whole 45 pages, with not *too* much more copy/paste action. I feel like I haven’t really changed enough, but I’ve not looked over it yet, so perhaps, on reading, it may be the right balance of change and not. Positive outlook and all.

Speaking of Outlook (the other kind) I’m sooo lost without my phone! I have no idea what my diary is like, can’t get push email on the move or y’know, call or text! I should have a replacement soon, it’s battered but was cheap, and I’m thinking of visiting a model shop or car place to get some chrome touch up paint for the housing (new housing is £30 – and requires total disassembly to fit) and then all i need to do is SIM, APP, and CID unlock it ready for a snazzy windows mobile 6.1 number of Dr Gonzo’s – very clever guy!

Hopefully I shall be back with the world soon enough. and in website news I have a few more aims (aside from keeping it current, and writing new stuff to put up!)

1. find a small, un intrusive image viewer for the painting and drawing section- that bit is VERY unpretty at the moment.

2. sorting out the blog page with anchors and a sidebar for navigation, and hopefully, some kind of comments feature, so it really is a proper blog. Would be really nice to get feed back!

And on that note, if you have stumbled into this and want to pass judgment, do email me, check out the Contact Me! page for more info.

And Back to work I go, the ‘proper’ kind, in the office ’til Friday. So, until then, goodbye ^_^ xx

Just a quick update before it fully turns into 2008 – I haven’t posted for quite a few weeks as I’ve generally been away from the computer after five or six weeks indisposed due to illness! However writing progress continues…. I got my hands on Green and Unpleasant Land just before I went home for Christmas, and it was a very welcome Christmas present – finally, my name actually and really in print – I am officially published, in a book and everything.

Progress on the full length thesis play I am developing as part of this excellent course was dogged by the aforementioned illness, but I am finally shaping up a first draft (due on the 7th Jan) and am up to speed with just over 90 pages, and about 3 scenes left to do. I’m still not wholly sure how it should end, but I’m going for the big ol’ hippy solution of seeing if the characters decide on their own. For someone who has only ever written one act, half hour pieces for casts of no more than 4, this has been a daunting undertaking- a full 90 minute (after substantial redrafting) piece for 13 characters… hm.

There’s also a 6,000 word essay due in on the 14th but we wont talk about that.

However, I am really looking forward to redrafting the provisionally titled Being Somewhere Else – it’s my favourite part, taking the rough cut and really shaping it… and I’m feverishly hoping that this makes me feel better about it as so far, getting it all out has been a lot more difficult than my other plays… at the moment I’m optimistically chalking this up to it being 3 times as long and with 3 times as many characters – just fitting it all in my head… however my secret fear is that it’s just terrible and dull, all style and no substance… only without the style too.

But I’m determined to get to the end of the draft – then do a quick check through for continuancy (important when you’re setting something in an imagined future) character voices and stupid misspellings, and then print it out for a good read, really get a feel for it as a whole, what it’s trying to say- and how to angle it all…

Having said that, I’m still not sure about the structure, and may overhaul that too…

Oh yes, and the essay.

Shush.

Happy New Year!