Monday, July 27, 2009

Midnight Oil

Not last night but the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers .... ha ha. No. What I was really going to say was that I got home from Oswego Harborfest at one in the morning and ended up writing until 4:30AM. I was very, very tired after that.

On an upside, ABS - the acronym I'm using in place of my current project's title - is done. More precisely, the added chapter / section I wanted to write to flesh it out is done. I think the new section makes the ending seem less abrupt.

Now to decide what to do with it. Reluctant Press? TG Comics? Self-publish? I can't decide.

As much as I would like to support RP, they seem to be doing well without my help. Femur has big plans for TG Comics and I would like to support that. On the other hand, a straight story doesn't really fit in at TG Comics. As for self-publishing, I worry that I won't do well at all. I suppose the only way to find out for sure will be to try.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Dumb Move

Little background history on me: I was once fired from an IBM for "downloading pornography." What I was actually doing was using the internet to find images for people's wallpaper on their computer desktop. Apparently cute pictures of kittens, celebrities of both sexes and yes, a few women in bikinis (**gasp**) count as pornography at IBM.

Of course, the guy that actually did download pornography wasn't me. The same manager that fired me had previously asked me to discretely delete all the porn from the other guy's computer after he quit. Yes, he quit, and that wasn't his spin. They knew he downloaded porn, but didn't fire him for it. He quit to move to a better job.

So what have I been doing at my new job lately? I can't tell you, because I don't want there to be a public record of it, but let's just say that Google documents are far too easy to access from anywhere to not use.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Cruel, Cruel Irony

I was just doing a Google search to try and find an illustrator that would work with a TG theme. As a number of artists at TG Comics work on commission, the search I used was "TG comics illustrator hire."

The only relevant result was this blog!

I have, by the way, found someone that will work with me. His name is Ethan Young. At some point when my financial situation isn't quite so dire, I would like to work with him. Until then, the search goes on for an affordable illustration alternative.