NWWBW Week Ending Sunday November 23rd

[mike]

nanowrimo all day.

by extension, i'm kind of starting to toy around with a song (i wrote the lyrics for the band in the book). my first december project is gonna be to actually write a midi version of it that i can knock together with guitar pro or something, and as soon as i can obtain a guitar, i want to try to record a real version of it.

[JTagmire]

Been really busy trying to get Pixel Lincoln done. It's consumed my whole week. Also got together with my band (me, my wife and my brother) for the first time in 6 months. We're playing next Friday and we need practice. Off to work.

[Luke]

I haven't been doing these weekly updates properly. Shame on me. Time to look back on my first full week of redundancy.

Creatively:

- I edited a large chunk of my NaNo novel and wrote around 5,500 words. I'm currently at 31,278 which is still around 5,000 off pace but if I can devise more plot then I should be able to catch up.

- I did the blood photo shoot for the monologue I'm writing and directing. That was awesome fun.

- I did some enemies (maybe just the one enemy?) for the Pixel Lincoln game.

- I did a photo shoot with Suzanne. I'll post something from that later today or tomorrow, but it was also fun. I'm hoping to shoot pretty regularly now if I can keep the models coming. I have some cool ideas for my card set.

- Oh, and I'm wrapping up Not the Goat! tonight.

Although it's not all strictly related to creativity (although some of it is) I'm also proud that I:

- Got my resume up to date and in order.

- I applied for a job at the Department of Culture and the Arts

- I had a meeting about some design work that's scheduled for January.

- I had a meeting about a potential professional writing commission for a theatre company. Should know more about this by the end of year. Won't say anything else for fear of jinxing.

Next week:

I hope to accomplish a lot more things (it was weird being home for a week. It was still a shock). I want to:

- Catch up on my NaNo novel.

- Earlier this year I helped my Granddad edit, design and publish a book he wrote through Lulu.com. He has a new book in the works and I hope to do some work editing that for him.

- I want to do some work on the script for my comics project with Grug.

- I'd love to do a photo shoot if I can line one up for the week.

- And I'd like to apply for some jobs. It looks as though we are staying in Perth for at least another six months, possibly a year. I am very tempted to try and freelance for a few months as there are a lot of potential projects coming up between Jan - May but I don't know. It's a tough one. I'll have to look at what's available and see what I can do. Tricky because the arts industry shuts down mid Dec to mid Jan. Won't find out about my DCA job for at least six weeks.

I think that's everything. Man. That all makes me nervous now

[tomkatt]

(in tiny voice) I got my page finished... (steps back into shadows of monstrous acheivements by everyone else!)

Seriously though - Wow some great stuff happening - Grug and Jess you guys are on fire!

[grug]

Thanks Troy!

And if you're achieve things, even if it's one page, you are totally a winner!

The best thing about NWWBW is that it makes those people who say, I'm a comic artist (or a writer or a photographer etc etc) put their money where their mouth is.