A brief return to my ongoing thoughts about workspace:
As I mentioned in my last post, yesterday was a 100% writing day. I started with that blog entry when I woke up at about 9 AM and finished writing around 7 PM when Erin and I had to leave the house. While I was not butt in chair the entire 10 hours or anything, even most of my non-writing time was writing peripheral. I took a shower, which is where I often have my best ideas. I ran to Meltdown for some reference material. I took time to eat, since I’ve recently learned by experience how much diet can affect creativity. Throw in a few breaks to recharge the brain and there you have it. I even managed to keep my online surfing to necessary research and 90% of my e-mail was back and forth brainstorming with a co-writer. All in all, it worked out well. I was able to tick several projects off my list.
But I stalled out in the middle of the day, around 2 o’clock. It wasn’t that I was done writing, just that I was done writing at home. I needed a change of scenery. So I packed up my notebook and laptop and headed over the WGA library, which is about 11 blocks from where I live. The move worked and the most productive phase of my day started. The librabry closed at 5 PM, but after being there for a couple hours and building a head of steam I was so excited to finish what I was writing that I could work at home again and that momentum carried me to the end of the day. So sometimes I guess there can be an advantage to changing up the location of your workspace.
It’s also interesting that my best writing happened from 2 to 7 yesterday. I have observed for many years now that my best work often seems to happen between about 2 and 6, and yesterday seems to prove it out further. But for some reason I still rarely take this into account when planning writing sessions. Something to keep in mind for the future.
On a side note, a new site called Indy Comic News went live yesterday and have my Creator Services page listed as their first “Link of Interest”. If indy comics are your thing, go check them out. And if indy comics aren’t your thing, well…start reading indy comics. They’re where tomorrow’s stars of the medium are doing their work today.
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great to see you posting again, although it’s even better that you’ve been working on your writing in the mean time.
I actually wanted to ask, since I just finished it and needed a second opinion, if you’ve read Narcopolis #2. I don’t recall you noting that you read #1 but I can’t find any reviews anywhere and want something of a second opinion. That’s all. :-D
I have read it, Prem.
I didn’t jump to any conclusions after issue #1 because it was basically pure set-up: it still could have gone any number of ways. #2 was the issue where something needed to happen or it would lose me, and something did. The protagonist’s direction takes a very unexpected turn here, and now I’m definitely interested in seeing how it will all play out. I’ll be back for #3 and #4.
Great!
The first issue didn’t fulfill me but hinted at enough to bring me back for the second issue which without a doubt upped the ante. Did I miss all the sex in the first issue, or was there really just a lot of nudity in the background (and foreground) of this one?
Despite their great leaps and bounds forward as a publisher over the last year and a half, I think sometimes there’s still a residual “tits-and/or-violence” mindset at Avatar, so I hadn’t really thought about it. It was there in the first issue, just not as blatantly.