Doing Dribbles

I have a lot of projects.  I’m sure alla you know I write books; I’ve finished one and am now getting it copyrighted and sent out to independent publishers, so now I’ve been working on my next book.

 

Next book is going to be in a series of at least four.  I tend to sort of do this.  My last book I actually did the preliminary work for four separate books that all make appearances in the main story, all squeezed down to fit into a novella, two of which are the main focus and had to be developed completely.  I thought that it’d be a cool, ‘less is more’ approach, and give the world lots of depth that the reader wouldn’t necessarily see upon first reading, but would be conscious of and draw them deeper into the story.

So with this one I’m just going to go all out and write four books as the tip of the iceberg, and have beneath the surface biographies of every character, and make this project more character-focused and less message focused like previous book.

Besides that, there’s one weird book that’s really hard to write, so I’ve been not rushing it and working on it on the side.  Sometimes suddenly something will happen and I’ll just hammer out a whole chapter from four to daybreak, but that’s pretty rare, so it might not be done anytime soon, who knows.

And all of that’s just the books.  I do other stuff too.  Like movies.  I met this guy named Gus in a film class I took in high school, and me and him have been making movies for a few years now.

Here's those if you'd like to see them.

But ever since we’ve finished our first short together, we’ve been talking about this one pet movie that we essentially wrote in conversations with friends and each other for about two years.  We started filming it a year ago, and now we’ve only got a few more scenes to shoot before we sit down for a week and do nothing but edit it and release it in parts on youtube.

It’s called Bundeloafe II: The Return of Jaffar, and it’s seriously the craziest thing I’ve ever worked on.  We just talked so much about how to make a movie that no one has ever seen before and just movies in general and where we think they’re heading, just putting as much as we possibly could into it, that at some point during the shooting a while back, we realized that this thing was going to be at least an hour and a half long.

But when you work on massive projects like those, you don’t really have anything to show for it until they’re done, so it’s sort of hard to tell people who may find me having just woke up at 3 in the afternoon in my underwear that my work life is stressful, intense, and requires a lot of attention to mental health in order to not fall into bouts of depression. 

So I’m going to do little things.  I do little things anyway, it’s just that a lot of the time the little things become big things after a while, IE a short, stupid movie with your friend becoming this massive, feature-length, surrealist commentary on the future of the film industry, or a short book for your senior project in high school becomes this sprawling, four books in one, philosophical bleeding of everything you feel about humanity’s existence.  But there’s stuff like little comics, 30-second songs comparing child singers Michelle Creber and Uria Shelton, drawings, books I’ve made in my childhood, videos parodying middle schoolers reviewing things on the internet, etc., and all that’s just sort of sitting there.

So I’m going to put those little things here that I’m always doing anyway, some of them will totally never become anything more than what they are, some of them might become my new, put all of my heart and dick into love projects, sure, we’ll see.

So Mondays I’m going to post a doodle.  Something simple to start the week.

Wednesdays I’m going to post a little thing of miscellaneous variety.  A short or long story, a short or long essay, a short song, a long song, a short video, a long video, whatever comes out I’ll stick here.

Fridays I’m going to recommend things.  I guess sort of reviewing.  Maybe not recommend.  I’ll figure all that out.  But the main deal is that it will be something to show that I didn’t make, with a written thing attached that I did.  Sort of like the Wolfman and the Airship Captain dealio I did a bit back.

So…  Yeah.  I’m going to put little things on here just for fun and if you would like to see those things then come here for them.