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I am changing my promise. Thirteen posts ago, I announced I would write everyday on this blog in the moment’s optimism that it would better my writing. But, I am calling into question the logic of that decision.
The Current Process:
1. Has kept me writing daily. Writers should do that. Great.
2. A majority of these have been shit.
3. Due to that, I have made conscious steps in each blog to better it. Just today I added a two part editing method to my writer’s armada of warships.
The obvious concern is the shit. How does one get rid of it in order to make way for the natural gold bricks that other writers seem to squat out in time for breakfast? It is natural to have bad writing in the way of the good. Lately, the daily blogs have taught me to catch word-turds shoddily, leaving a pile behind. Naturally, now one of my new missions as a writer is to be a better toilet. But how do i do this? My thought are I don’t have enough time to catch it on this daily schedule. But I need something to prove it:
THE BATHROOM ACT
There will be a total of forty two days in this experiment. Twenty one (thirteen already expended) will be used to write daily. The other twenty one will be given to a weekly schedule where one to three blogs will be posted each week. Polls shall be attached to each post asking “Is this shit?” in order calculate whether the daily or weekly method produces better writing. The conclusive results of this experiment will be published in a forty third post.
Signed D. J. Tiegen
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P.S. The timestamps have been corrected.
P.P.S.S. Current Writing Research: Chuck Wendig Writer Unboxed Grammar Girl Some Linguist
WordPress has a clock and calender that runs by another time. I have not looked into the matter. However, it records me on wrong dates. I assure you, each day I have been posting some writing. In a week or so, I’ll look into trying to change this, so the time stamp will read correctly, to keep the record straight.
Also, more people are starting to read all of this. Who are you guys? Comment! Do it! Oh shuttup, you know you want to. That’s what I thought.
Jeeze.
How old are you?
I mean…
Just…
I can’t even look at you right now.
Here marks a new use for this blog. I don’t know what to call it yet, other than practice. Everyday, I will write something here. Correction:
I will write everyday.
Maybe personal, maybe not. But something. And if not here, somewhere and I’ll show you. I’ll scan it. I’ll show you a picture. While I’m typing this, I’m trying to believe I’ll respect the rules I’m laying down. Institutions to better yourself are almost always underminded by yourself. I think we reach too hard or fast, or vice versa some times. So, I’ll start slow and make the least I have to write one sentence. A quality sentence mind you.
ENTRY #1:
Saying someone isn’t funny is a mono-psychotic billboard created to reach a self satisfying, mythical, and useless seat of entitlement. It also isn’t funny.
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NEWS:
1. The GEC has survived for an entire semester. Me & Ed are proud of this. We are working on a long term project you might hear about later, too. If I’m back next semester, we have some exciting plans for it and the GEC. We’ve also made a commitment to better our skills and thus better our comics. This explains the one thing a day thing. He’s starting to sketch and read his McCloud. I lent him “Making Comics”. And by lent I mean, I’ll never see it again.
2. May or may not be ending up at FSU.
3. May be starting a comic club and a zine next semester. This way I could promote more comics at FGCU. I could also make a student organized publication. I don’t think we have any of those, so it would be another first. I could also meet a lot of creative types this way. I’m always looking for those to stop my brain from clawing at the walls.
4. According to the stats WordPress supplies, more people are reading this blog. Who are they? Really? Who reads this? Why?
5. I‘m looking into better ways to host comics on the web. I mean image quality, site quality, and practicality. If anyone has any advice, comment or send me an e-mail.
Also, need to research copy right and how to protect original properties. If you can help me, do so.
-DT
acapdtjsvt@gmail.com
Know that this took me one whole day’s time, but the time sleeping in between would make it a 32 hour comic. The drawing and writing in it by no means represents my best. I did it just so I could do it. So, if you can’t read it, don’t like it, can’t understand it : i understand. It wasn’t written for you. On another note, the first long plot in the comic interested JoJar when he read it, so he wants to collaborate on a Garry’s mod movie translation of it. Should be an interesting side project.
P.S. Poops! Poops McGee!
This year’s 24 hour comic day will be on October 2nd. You don’t need to be professional, you don’t need to be good, you don’t even really need to be creative. All you need is paper, pen, and the energy to stay up a full day. Then you can post it in a number of sites. I’ll be posting mine here and at McCloud’s (as is tradition, he did create the thing). For those of you who don’t know, 24 Hour comics day is when comic book shops, comic enthusiasts, and creative people create one comic panel/ page an hour for an entire day. It was originally created by a great mind in comics: Scott McCloud, which you can read more about here. A lot of people take this day to write about their lives, make fiction, make nonsense. Go crazy with the idea. And then afterwords you can compare with people on many forums, or go to your local comic shop, and show them your’e a indy stoner with dirt lined pockets that makes comics in his basement.
Kosher Blog
Hi.
I realize it has been more than a year since THE PRAGUE BLOG and I’ve still to finish. But! Things have changed and i’m back at college, meaning unless I become a miracle child, very little PB will get done until months later. With that said, many things have happened since last we talked:
One: No more lady. That went kablooey.
Two: BP went kablooey too.
Three: I am running a weekly FGCU comic with a great friend, Ed Droney. I don’t think EagleNews takes us very seriously, they still put us under the title “Viewpoint”. It makes us seem like an article about porcelain clown collections, but in all reality we did ink this first comic with a ballpoint pen (pic below).
Sorry about the format. Adobe.pdf files aren’t friendly. Just press shift + CTRL + Plus and you should be able to turn the pics.
Four: This will be my last semester until I have an AA, and can transfer to anywhere I want to go. So, back to the college application process I go.
Five: Unemployed. Hooray for the American experience! Looking for jobs.
Six: Now go to therapy, somewhat. May have some kind of inherited depression. Might start meds, might not. We’ll see.
Seven: Now nineteen and single. Ugh. Haha! But.. meh. *sniff*
Eight: I’m aiming towards being a comic creator/producer/publisher/writer for my career. Music went down the drain. Even though my major is still Political science (changed it about seven times through the year). I’ll change it when i have the time. Going to study business, plus astronomy (if i can). I’ve figured out you should study writing on your own. Unless your a journalist. Then, you know, study.
Originally I wanted to make this a vlog update, but I don’t have access to many good cameras here at FGCU. Might work on that if i ever have a budget to help. For all of you who continue to read: Thank you. I’m not sure why you do, but if you feel like responding… respond! Comment on a post, or go directly to the about me page where you’ll find a Gmail address. You can send comments, questions, and shady Craig’slist responses.
