Nothing like changing gears and moving onto another thread in a story. When I got tripped up about Mondays comic i was concerned that the differences between what was happening with Largo/Erika and Piro/Kimiko (you know, fanciful retelling of a great battle to dealing with a horde of slathering fanboys in the japanese equivalent of a Denny’s restaurant) was not working because if it was it would just flow right, right? Since my creative flow was suddenly tripped up, i had somehow screwed things up, right?

Not really, actually. The more i thought about it the more i realized it was just transition of thought, not the flow, that was giving me headaches. It’s my job as the writer and the art person to smooth it all out and make the transition between theads smooth for the reader and mold things in ways that enable you to see what i’ve been trying to bring to the surface. I guess thats what writers really do – take ideas and lay them out so that the reader can take them in.

I had a real good flow going with the Largo Erika stuff, and it would be so much easier for me just to keep going with it and not make that jump. But that arc has hit the point where i need to jump into the mess that is the Anna Millers restaurant in Meguro now and i just have to roll up my sleves and do it

BTW, i really was exhausted from the trip. Thursday night i never did go to bed – i finished the comic, packed, and headed for the airport, then after arriving in DC i went pretty much right to the booth and a few hours later did my signing. One problem with getting tired like that is you never really catch up, especially when you are trying hard to be on the ball and active for the following days. When i got home sunday i was soooo ready to just curl up in a ball and sleep. I think i’m getting old.

- pirotunes: Biosphere – Sphere of No-Form from “Substrata” -

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Posted by fredrin on May 23rd, 2006 :: Filed under Daily Blogging

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Grrr. There are times i just want to smack hawk. I’ll explain.

At Anime Central, i dropped my bookbag with my 12″ powerbook in it. It looked fine when i checked it, till i got home and found out that the power plug is either dislodged or broken – i can’t plug it in. So, once the battery died, it was dead. Which was about 1 minute since the battery is pretty well shot (remember, i bought this a few months before going to AX Tokyo so i’ve had it for over 2 years now). Repair is of course possible, but i have to go out to Novi to do it and i just don’t have time right now. Am i irritated at Apple yet? Hmm… not yet.

Then Sarah’s computer starts acting up again. Sometimes it just will not reboot – you can hear it, but the screen stays blank. Usually this doesn’t last long, but the other night it was really looking like it wasn’t coming back. Eventually it did, but i was beginning to worry. The idea of having both mac powerbooks down was not an amusing one. Slightly irritated.

Yesterday, i launched Itunes and for some reason it had trouble loading the playlist.xml file. Yes, for some reason, the file got borked. All of my music is now a mess. And i have a lot of it. I’m going to have to go in and manually reload everything. The original playlist is not recoverable. Irritated at Apple? Yes, much so.

So, when i go to bitch at Hawk, ready to lay into my ‘i hate apple’ rant, what does he do? He points me to the new 13″ macbook. Goddamnit. With all the stuff i’ve had problems with this week, you’d think this would be the LAST thing that i’d want.

Fucking hell. I want that black one. To replace my broken, beat up 12″.

Hawk, i hate you.

- pirotunes: Massive Attack – Teardrop [(from the album Mezzanine)] -

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Posted by fredrin on May 17th, 2006 :: Filed under Daily Blogging

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