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May 14th, 2008

02:00 am - It seems I have abnormally small ear canals. Just made the first comic update since coming home. It is difficult to do here what with the dial up and such. Here's my plan for the summer: Get a job, full or almost full time. Move out of my parents' place. Finish Memento or whatever the fuck I decide to call it. Try to publish it for reals. Start a new webcomic. Probably a M-F black and white strip. Put together a Tokyopop submission. Current Location: rents' house Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: MSI- Eleven Tags: art, jobs, plans, stuff, writing

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May 12th, 2008

02:29 am Some realizations: My parents' house is so cluttered that I physically cannot unpack. It's a good thing I'm not planning on staying here very long. My attempts to fill out job applications online have been stifled by the shitty internet here. Note that here we only have one internet. Unrelated: I'm thinking of renaming Memento to Memento: Nemo Hic Adest Ililus Nominus or just Nemo Hic Adest Ililus Nominus. It's not easy to remember though. Perhaps "There is No One Here by That Name" would be better? I think I'm bad at titles, "The Rift" is a bad title too. I may try to get it published when it's done. Current Location: rents' house Current Mood: tired Tags: stuff, ugh, writing

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April 13th, 2008

10:54 pm - Everytime I see that "Inspi(RED)" shirt I think it says "Insip(ED)" There's been a lot of talk lately about what I'm doing after graduation. Apparently my plans are too simple for most people's tastes. I'm looking into jobs, posted my resume on craigslist and shit. I've only gotten one response though and it's kinda scammy looking. I'll try again once I can legitimately say I have a B.S. Travis, Taelor and I are looking into getting an apartment for summer (for them, longer for me) but there is a possibility of renting a bigger house for fairly cheap so I'm kinda hoping for that. In other news I did my last workshop for creative writing on Thursday. Several of the comments people put on my story (Independently of one another) were like OMG publish this. One said "you should become a famous sci-fi writer." I loled but I think I may actually try and get it published. I want to finish it at least. I doubt I could ever be a professional fiction writer but having a real book would be pretty fucking sweet. In other other news: Danville, VA is a place where you can randomly see a limousine double-parked across like 6 spaces in front of a pawn shop. There are two ways it could have arrived there, 1: someone who rides in or drives a limo also uses the pawn shop or 2: someone pawned a limo. It was white. Current Location: Haus Current Mood: calm Current Music: Mindless Self Indulgence- Dicks Are For My Friends Tags: jobs, stuff, writing

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July 2nd, 2007

01:49 am - A question for all my english major friends. So I'm trying to write a Rift novelization again. This time I actually want to get it beyond a few paragraphs. Mostly it's just for writing practice though. I'm not planning on trying to get it published if I ever finish it and I'll probably never show it to very many people. I have no delusions about being able to write. I'll probably always suck, I just wanna suck less so that maybe by the time I'm old and too arthritic or shaky to draw I can still make stories of some kind. And I'll be like, "Ah writes mah stories on teh internets... where's mah teef?" And people will be like, "Oh Great Aunt Kytri, no one uses the internets anymore, stories are now injected directly into the brain or ingested in the form of tasty saltine crackers. Also your teeth are in your mouth, you senile old bat." Wait, I got sidetracked. Anyway once I finish a chapter or so I'll be willing to start showing bits to interested parties. If you want to be one of said interested parties, you have to promise to a: actually read it and give feedback and b: don't pretend it's not shit if it is. You know, tell me how you would write it differently if it were not shit. Anyway I have a more immediate question. Is there some kind of unbreakable rule in writing about active vs. passive voice? Word's grammar thingy bitches at me a lot, more often or not it's about something being in passive voice. The sentences in question usually don't look that bad to me but I suck at writing so I can't be sure. For example the current sentence it's angry about is as follows, "Niko tried the handle immediately once the door was closed, only to find that it was locked from the outside." It doesn't like the words "was closed." I suppose I could just say "once the door closed" but the question is do I need to? Is passive voice always wrong or are there cases where it might be okay or even preferable? I'm not even 100% sure that that sentence is passive since the "was closed" bit refers to the door which is not the subject of the sentence. Also earlier it bitched at me because I used the word "who" to refer to Niko. It wanted me to change it to "which" because "who" is for referring to people. Is she not a person now? You cut me, Word, you cut me deep. Current Location: bed, I am so comfy, yay. Current Mood: contemplative Tags: rift, stuff, writing

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