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i am forcing myself to do an update today. i've been slogging through a lot of stuff this week and have not been very diligent about this ol' lj blog. sorry flist!
webcomicsnation has stopped throwing shoes, but my confidence in it is shaky at best. i've decided to just take a break from Reconstruction as i need to finish all the other summer projects i got swirling around right now. i've made a good dent in things this week (and took thursday off, which helped a lot). i just keep staring straight ahead for the horizon. in three weeks this craziness will be over and i can get the keel even again.
in writing: i took a break from comic lettering to rewrite the first chapter of Figfield in one of those strange bursts of creative inspiration that strikes like lightning (if i may be so cliché). the results surprise me. they seem dense, but the voice is mostly right and i think i can work with it. i am sending it to some eyeballs (poke poke?) in the hopes of getting some feedback.
in reading: i also read Montmorency and the Assassins yesterday in a rare fit of page-turning. i've never been able to put a book from this series down once i have gotten started on it. can't believe i waited so long to read it. now i'm sad that i only have one book left and i desperately want to devour it this week since the last book ended on quite the cliffhanger.
if you're not familiar with the Montmorency series, i cannot recommend it high enough. Updale's world is full of charming characters, gritty details, murder, espionage, goofy romance, and vast silliness of the victorian sort that is simply irresistible. even though these books are tempered for young adults, they are wonderfully dark and don't shirk from realism: crime, drugs, etc. i loved book three, but so far book two Montmorency on the Rocks is still my favorite. i've never had an edge-of-my-seat read like that: it was just relentlessly good! but i do think you have to start from the beginning to really appreciate them. so do!
on top of which, Eleanor Updale is just a fabulously generous person and deserves all the credit and support she can get.
webcomicsnation has stopped throwing shoes, but my confidence in it is shaky at best. i've decided to just take a break from Reconstruction as i need to finish all the other summer projects i got swirling around right now. i've made a good dent in things this week (and took thursday off, which helped a lot). i just keep staring straight ahead for the horizon. in three weeks this craziness will be over and i can get the keel even again.
in writing: i took a break from comic lettering to rewrite the first chapter of Figfield in one of those strange bursts of creative inspiration that strikes like lightning (if i may be so cliché). the results surprise me. they seem dense, but the voice is mostly right and i think i can work with it. i am sending it to some eyeballs (poke poke?) in the hopes of getting some feedback.
in reading: i also read Montmorency and the Assassins yesterday in a rare fit of page-turning. i've never been able to put a book from this series down once i have gotten started on it. can't believe i waited so long to read it. now i'm sad that i only have one book left and i desperately want to devour it this week since the last book ended on quite the cliffhanger.
if you're not familiar with the Montmorency series, i cannot recommend it high enough. Updale's world is full of charming characters, gritty details, murder, espionage, goofy romance, and vast silliness of the victorian sort that is simply irresistible. even though these books are tempered for young adults, they are wonderfully dark and don't shirk from realism: crime, drugs, etc. i loved book three, but so far book two Montmorency on the Rocks is still my favorite. i've never had an edge-of-my-seat read like that: it was just relentlessly good! but i do think you have to start from the beginning to really appreciate them. so do!
on top of which, Eleanor Updale is just a fabulously generous person and deserves all the credit and support she can get.
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