I hit 40 000 in my Nanovel. Weehee! (throws confetti into the air.... only not really, I'm at school and have no confetti) Might write some more in the evening. Probably will, at least a thousand words.
For the first time during the month I'm up to date with the "required" word count! It's a whole new feeling to me!
Monday, November 24, 2003
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
I have no idea what this means...
But I know what this means! (evil smile)
But I will deteriorate with age, since in only two weeks I will be 21 and become
Hahhahaahaaaa! I can't stop! And don't try to stop me, because of the following -
Check this out.
Ahaahaaaaaaa! (faints)
Go see what Tiina is! And to stay on the earlier theme, you know there is also a quiz like this titled: "How will Remus Lupin seduce you?" and one of the outcomes is "He mistakes you for Sirius."
Friday, November 14, 2003
Just saw the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban teaser trailer. Now I've watched it seven times through, and a couple of times parts of it slowly (for example to see Lupin standing behind Neville in the boggart-sequence - he's not the bishounen he's supposed to be, but I knew that already).
My favourite part is the moving poster of Sirius Black. Woo. There's this nice shift in the music when it appears that suits the mood. And the Dementor is scary! I also like the Halloween song the kid choir is performing.
This looks alright. This is my favourite Potter book and I have an unhealthy obsession to it. I was disappointed by the first two films, but I trust the director of this one somewhat more than Chris Columbus.
I agree with my sis that something weird and scary has happened to Draco's hair... he looks like a teenaged Backstreet Boy ^_~. Not that the "hair backwards with tons of gel" was the epitome of cool.
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Oh yeah, forgot to mention. My comic The Fool can no longer be found in geocities. It's here. School gives us homepage space, I use it. No adds, no crappy "hourly data transfer" limits. Gah, I hate those.
What? Why didn't I put the pages to the school's space in the first place? Because I'm stupid, that's why.
Wow. Two entries on the same day. This is a record for me!
Alright. Should come up with a character to model for my 3ds Max course. It should be something simple enough so that I can get it ready by next week's Thursday, and at the same time something nifty enough so that I actually feel good doing it. It can't have fingers - that much I've decide. I won't do fingers. Or hair. Only crazy people would start modeling hair in the week time span with 3ds Max, especially if they only have as much experience as I do.
Nanowrimo kick off party here at Turku tomorrow. Can't wait, though I haven't quite figured my story out. I still don't know who is the murderer in my story. It is the story of a band (no name yet). The main character is the new singer after the first singer gets murdered. There's also two guitarists, a basist, a drummer, the manager and her assistant. And there is some magic. I'm having mixed feelings about this, since I don't know much about being in a band (simply having seen Gravitation doesn't count, I think ^_~)and the life such people lead. So I'm just going to downplay that side a bit and focus on the characters and their relationships, spiced up with concerts, rehearsals and interviews. Now if only I could find the murderer and his/her motivation among these characters. I had a few ideas of people who are mixed into it, but aren't the actual murderer. I'm running out of characters.
Maybe it just turns out to be a suicide. Or an accident. (...do I suck?)
Next Saturday it's on. Trying to get something written in the midst of the Halloween parties. And you guys there at Washington D.C., do not forget your Nano duties amongst all that fun.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Trying to figure out how to use a drawing tablet I have borrowed from my friend. Did a few sketches yesterday, the first that actually looked like something like my drawings. Still, it's even harder to get the proportions right (especially eyes the same size!) with a tablet than it is with normal pencil...
The snow has melted. Hallelujah.
Monday, October 27, 2003
It's coooold. And we have snow (well, at the moment, after it has snowed, we practically only have stupid ice on the streets). Seriously, this isn't fun. Snow at the end of October? -10 degrees of celcius at the end of October. Something is wrong with the universe.
At least I have a nifty new black wintercoat. ^_^
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
See, Tiina, I am writing.
I finished Kingdom Hearts last week. It is a really nice feeling when you manage to play through a game. Not to mention that the game was too pretty! Especially the ending. Sigh. *And* especially the hidden secret ending! That was so cooool. I want to see it again, but then I would have to play through the last boss once again. It isn't that hard, but it would take an hour. Just to see those few cooool (yes, the word actually has that many 'o's) minutes.
(You get the secret ending if you lock all the worlds, gather all the dalmatian puppies and win all the tournaments.)
I got into a bit of a power gaming frenzy with Kingdom Hearts, I have to admit. I just had to gather all the twelve items from the clock tower and synthesize all the weapons (I had Ultima Weapon, yeah!) with the moogles. I didn't beat those voluntary bosses, though. I tried to beat Shadow, but it took too long. I hated it when I kicked his ass slowly for over half an hour and then always died over something stupid. I think I will still try to win Sephiroth, I have an earlier save just so that I can try that. I get halfway through, but then he does that nasty halo-attack thing that drains all the mp and leaves one point of hp. *_* And then he hits me once and I die. Gah.
My next gaming project will be Final Fantasy VIII. I was at disc three when I started to play Kingdom Hearts about six months ago. ^_~ I am slow. I hope I can still remember what I'm supposed to be doing. Then waiting for me are Shadow of Memories, Shadow Hearts, Shenmue I & II, Grandia II, Skies of Arcadia, Vagrant Story, etc. Yes, I do have something "better" to do, and that's why it will take me AGES to play through them. At least I'm a happy camper 'cause we have a working Dreamcast.
I'm also very happy about some manga news. Next year, Viz will start publishing Angel Sanctuary and Tokyopop will have Fruits Basket. I can't wait! ^_^ I want them all now! At least Furuba will probably come quite quickly, but it usually takes Viz really long to put out to those albums...
Btw, the korean manwha Under the Glass Moon (published by Tokyopop) is just beautiful. I want to draw like that! The first album was great, but the characters sometimes had these really scary and ugly expressions. But issue two... I didn't think it was possible to draw any more pretty than in the first album (+ there was only one scary face - perhaps the artist will get rid of that habit completely in the next album, I hope), and I still can't understand how the artist has managed to become better in between two albums , but... man! I'm having a beauty-seizure. All that Kingdom Hearts and Under the Glass Moon will be the sweet death of me.
Oh, some real news: I will do the illustrations to a Finnish role playing game that will be freely distributed. It's this guy's project who contacted me on the basis of my Elfwood scifi gallery. There are people all over Finland working on the game. I will do the character classes. I would like to do some space monsters, too, but we will see. ^_^ I've done nothing yet, but if you understand Finnish, you can visit the rpg's site here.
This was such a geeky entry.
Monday, September 29, 2003
I was in Helsinki last weekend visiting the annual comic book festival, because Neil Gaiman was there. He talked great things as always, and also managed to sign more books than I thought he could (as you can read in his journal). I got my Season of Mists signed. ^_^
I asked Neil about the scene in Neverwhere where Richard meets the Finnish girl at Trafalgar Square. I wanted to know why it was there, since it almost only says that the girl said something that Richard thought to be Italian, but was in fact Finnish. He told me that it was there 'cause he thought it was cute, and because "Finns are under represented in literature". So he wanted Finnish fans reading it to feel good. I sure felt good when, in his interview the next day, someone asked him about the Finnish name Lemmi Hautala in American Gods, and if he knew what it meant. He repeated the answer he had given me, and said that someone had asked a similar question from him yesterday, and that it had got him thinking that he thought he was actually the international writer who had visited Finland most often during the last years (because he likes Finland). And he does visit every 2-3 years or so, I think. But it was my question he was talking about. Yippee! (Yes, I don't have any better reasons to feel happy.)
Of course, lots of money was spent as well. I was more than happy to find Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics! I was even more happy when I realized that Viz had lowered it's prices so that Viz manga (Fushigi Yugi, Ceres) now costs no more than Tokyopop manga. I doubt that will leave me with much more money, because I will just buy more. That's just me.
Friday, September 19, 2003
Sunday, September 07, 2003
The first week of school is over. Had scripting/dramaturgy, which was fun enough, though 4 days isn't even nearly enough time for a course like that. But what can I say? I am studying digital arts, whose main focus isn't scripting, so too bad. A quite laid-back teacher, who at least taught me that one is capable to write on command: "Theme: anger. Time: 10 minutes. Write!" Don't know if I'm able to make that work in everyday life. Well, that is what Fantasybits-topics are meant to be like. Perhaps I should think less (always a good thing to say). :P
Buffy and Angel return from summer break today! Yaaaay! For you who don't know, they're showing season 5 of Buffy and 2 of Angel now here in Finland - some stupid people decided to put them on summer break in the middle of the season ! Actually, when there were 5 episodes left of both seasons! Gaaaaah! But in 3 hours I will be in bliss with episode "Intervention" of Buffy (strange time to show Buffy, at 6 p.m., I'm so used to 8 p.m.).
Created a website for my comic The Fool at geocities.com/damonthefool. Nothing there yet. I'm planning to put things up there today, because my teacher wanted me to do that. So today I'm going to translate it to English, change them to .jpgs and then put them up. The first four pages or so will be computer coloured (black-and-white), the rest I will update in "colour" when I get them done. But the sketchy versions should be there tomorrow. I hope. x_x
Monday, August 25, 2003
Wow. I got a mod's choice the other day. Many thanks to Tiina's colouring skills and tired humour! ^_^ It's here.
I know, I know. Everyone shout together: "What a lame-ass entry!"
Monday, August 11, 2003
Alright. About time I blogged again, even if it is just a short entry. I have done issues 1 and 2 of The Fool, and should be writing and drawing the script to issue 3. Instead, I'm adding finishing touches to 2 and planning the webpage for the comic. Well, it has something to do with the comic.... and I don't feel like writing a script. So I am a week behind schedule.... So what?
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Ok. So now I am officially expected to do the first 3 or 4 issues of Damon's story this summer. I also receive money from it - two months' study grants, though I'm really doing it for three months. ^_^ Now I just have to actually *do* it. Scary.
So far the issues are 1. stepping into the cafe, meeting a vampire (a new vampire character made up, and I'll change the cafe also into one of my own creation), issue 2. meeting Corn (Tiina, my sis, kindly let me use Corn in this version of the story, too), stepping outside the cafe, and issue 3. the chase and flashbacks. As you can see, issue 1 is still a bit sketchy at best. Perhaps I should start writing the script, so that I can begin the first day of June...
I'm also making a website to the comic in, I think, August, and 'publish' the first issues as a web comic.You'll just have to wait. Bwahahhahhaaa.
Friday, May 02, 2003
So far in the Damon-comic region (my boyfriend just asked "What's Damon's comic region?" but I'm going to ignore him): I've decided that the story could be told in 7 or 8 issues, each with 24 pages. I looked to Sandman for help, and saw that at least Doll's House had 8 issues, 24 pages each (except the Cereal meeting thingie, which was over 30 pages). So 7 issues would make the story 168 pages long + the 7 covers. There's work for me for a while... still not sure if I'm going to make myself a "slave" to this project for the summer.... it's starting to be about time to decide...
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Ok. I'm not fuming anymore. I did make a gallery at Elfwood, only not in the scifi section. So now I have a fantasy gallery, because I think my fantasy drawings are more easily defined as fantasy, also by Elfwood's standards. I *did* get one pic rejected, but when I wrote a longer explanation to it, underlining the fantastic content on it, it got accepted. Now I'm left wondering if I should try to resend my Damon pictures to the scifi section and write looooooong explanations about D's character and the story's plot in the description to get it accepted. Would it work? Do I want to overwork my keyboard and use my time to think up the explanations only to get the pics rejected again? I don't know for sure yet.
Let's not talk about that anymore. I've been thinking about making a comic about Damon during the summer holiday, in order to get 'work exercise' credit for it and receive study grants during the summer. I'm not sure if I have the time to do a brief storyboard about the subject for my teachers, when I have to redo the whole beginning of Damon's story in order to write Cafe de Minuit, and thus other people's characters, out of it. Who knows. It would be fun, though, to actually receive money from drawing a graphic novel. <sigh & a dreaming look...>
Saturday, April 12, 2003
AAGH! Ok, so I won't join Elfwood, then. Okay, I joined, but won't make a gallery since my pictures "aren't modern fantasy"! I sent some nice pretty pictures of Damon and his friends and foes there and got a rejected ticket as a response. The reasons stated that "The pictures aren't modern fantasy. Simply saying that they are based on tarot cards doesn't count"! As I've written my novel quite a lot, and it being my favourite one, I think I can state that it *is* modern fantasy, if a label should be put to it.
What is modern fantasy, then? What does Elfwood think it is? Isn't the point of modern fantasy (at least sometimes) that the guys don't look any different from normal people but have some strange gifts/powers/natures? How can one send a picture of a modern mage there, if it's just a guy on a trenchcoat? Is it enough to say that the picture portrays a mage? And how about a modern vampire? Perhaps my gloomy Christophe in his pinstripe suit? Should he be grimacing like a standard vampire, showing his fangs, if it isn't enough to say that he is a vampire? I mean, what is going on?
I'm just so very mad now. I love my Damon. He's happy as modern fantasy. But if Elfwood doesn't want me to share my stories and imagination, then I won't. I won't be drawing pointy ears or huge freaking guns to my characters just because they would then feel happy to call it modern fantasy.
So there. Not joining a community of interesting and good artists, then.
Rant over.
(............still fuming................)
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