it was supposed to storm and snow and dump all kinds of weather on us here in the northeast last night. it didn’t. looks like we might get some of the white stuff tomorrow and saturday, though. wonder if it will accumulate.
the Brooklyn Museum was interesting yesterday. because of the front moving through, i got a wicked migraine about halfway through our visit. i felt bad because it meant that after finishing the watercolor exhibit (which is the main reason we went) i was kind of out of sorts for the rest of the trip. oddly enough, because i was having trouble even thinking past the pain, it meant that all the conceptual art that i usually go ga-ga for was mentally reduced to a pile of crap. it just didn’t make any sense to my brain and i felt kinda bad about it.
as such, we left a bit earlier than planned. thankfully some aleve and a nap when we got home meant i was functional for the rest of the evening. still, those headaches take a lot out of me and i wasn’t able to accomplish much. i did start getting caught up on my comic books, though, and spent some time just kind of puttering around.
i’ve got myself on a bit of a deadline with the website. i’m going to have it ‘go live’ by february 1st, that way i can move on with the rest of my projects. i’m trying to figure out why whenever i near the end of a major project i feel this heavy weight on my mind to finish it. i can’t seem to do anything else productive until that project is done. unfortunately that means my writing muse has put his foot down. i feel like i’m ‘allowed’ to sketch, though, and that’s pretty important so i’ll take what i can get.
hopefully once i get this site up i’ll be able to get back to some of my writing. i have some thoughts rolling around in my head lately about the world i’m building. bits of the story itself slide in and out of my mind’s eye and other bits are sliding around like ball bearings, looking for a method and a medium.
in other words, i don’t think my story is meant to be written in a novel. it just doesn’t seem to want to fit in that mold. at the moment, it likes the idea of being a long comic book series accompanied by short story collections and other short formats like drabbles and such. it’s sprawling and likes the idea of keeping that sprawled and scattered sense.
in theory, one could read the comic book and get the main story arc and stop there. short stories would fill in missing details of the main arc as well as covering back story and drabbles and other one shot formats would cover other minute details.
meh. who knows if i can pull it off. i really, really like the idea, but first things first. i need to draw!
