May 3, 2008
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Webnovel?
Not much to say today….
I’ve been thinking of starting a “webnovel” lately. I tried the webcomic route, but my art just isn’t good enough to carry the story. I’m a passable artist, but I’m no great artiste. I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to be able to paint the picture in words. Unless I find an artist interested in illustrating for me…. but that can turn into a power struggle, or so I’ve heard, and besides most comic artists have their own ideas for stories already.
But when I write, I am not so much transposing my vision to paper (or in this case, screen), I am sculpting art from a block of marble, deftly removing chunks of “nothing” to reveal what was already there. I sit down to write, and things just appear there that I didn’t even know were in me.
I’m not sure if I’ll be posting the webnovel here at Xanga or elsewhere. I have to look into where the best place would be, but I’ll let you guys know. I’m not sure how many of my regular readers like horror, or as HP Lovecraft called it, Science Fantasy, but I’ll post links here when I’ve updated. I’ve been told I write like some weird combination of Lovecraft and Hitchcock.
Edit: I might very well go with WordPress. It looks AWESOME. I especially like the Autosave feature which saves your work even as you write it so it CAN’T BE LOST. You hear that XANGA?! AUTOSAVE!! Anyway… carry on.
April 3rd
Matrons and the Vestal Virgins held a secret festival for Bona Dea on behalf of the public welfare in the house of the officiating consul or praetor of the city on the night of May third to the fourth. The mistress of the house presided, and the women performed a dance accompanied by wind and stringed instruments. All the statues of the men were carefully covered with a veil where the ceremonies were observed, and the room was decorated with vine-branches and other plants and flowers. Wine was brought in, but called milk, and the covered jar containing it a honey-pot.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower peaks on or around this date. It began on the nineteenth of April and will end on the twenty-eighth of May. It is associated with Haley’s Comet, and is best viewed in tropical regions and in the southern hemisphere.
Comments (6)
hi
Maybe you can give us bits of it? Sounds like a good project.
Definitely leave links for us. I’ve never read Lovecraft but Hitchcock is my lover. Xanga would be a better lover if they had autosave though
i don’t really read horror but i support your thoughts coming out and being put into electronic paper
Yes, links! I love what you write in your blog, so any fiction would be interesting too.
RYC: I tried going vegetarian for a while and it didn’t agree with me. Thanks for the books!!!!!!!!!!! I know very little about plants, though I seem to be able to grow them. I still want to try mushrooms in my basement, but I’m the only one who eats them.
I’ll have to look into wordpress! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!