Life Developments II: The Wrath of Laziness

I'm discovering more and more lately that boredom leads not to inspiration, but to extreme laziness.

Let's ascribe to the theory that one could potentially write the next great American novel over any given length of time. Well, if that's all they thought about, and locked themselves into a room with a typewriter or a computer and worked on nothing but that, they'd accomplish it. However, throw life and distractions and children and divorce and new relationships and other, more complicated shit as this person, and they'll eventually turn to their typewriter and say "Aw, fuck it."

That's very well where I'm at right now.

Look, nobody's reading this, which is why it's a bit theraputic for me to write here. I think the pressures of writing something that people will eventually read are too much for me. I think that, somewhere deep in my subconscious, being successful at writing means I would eventually be happy, and my subconscious doesn't want me to be happy. I think I have three or four or eleventeen story ideas at the moment that I can't seem to get out, like being constipated and unable to pass anything. Now it's turning into a gall stone and while I can feel it moving, it hurts like a bitch and I don't want to have anything to do with it.

Writer's block or laziness? Is it that life is distracting, or is it that life is more appealing?

I dunno. More later.

Life Developments I: What I've Been Up To

It's been an interesting month...well, fuck, let's see, after not blogging for a month, what's happened?

Entered into a new relationship, thank you very much.

Started and stopped and started a major writing project, thank you kindly.

Rediscovered my love of both Indiana Jones AND The X-Files, thankee sai.

Finished Batman: RIP, started LAST RITES, and wow, I'm verklempt.

And I've not actually done any real writing outside a page or two, and only a sketch.

What brought this on?

Christmas. And snow. Cold.

Anyways, should I make a New Year's Resolution to blog more and write in accompaniment?

Nah, I'll just break it anyway.

But I'll try.

ARGH

I.

Cannae.

Blog.

Look, reviewing things takes effort, something I don't like to put forth. I've been writing. A lot.

Nobody reads this anyway, so stay tuned invisible readers. I'll have updates soon.

ULTIMATE BATMAN, Chapter Four

At last.

A week late, but ULTIMATE BATMAN, Chapter Four, is up and running!

Life Happens...?

Urgh. I meant to have reviews of last week's books taken care of, I meant to have ULTIMATE BATMAN Chapter Four up and running, and I meant to do a lot of things last week, but I suddenly realized why I'm so damn tired: I'm sick. And that sucks.

So if I get my ass in gear today, we'll see ULTIMATE BATMAN and hopefully some reviews. I have to work today (goddammit) so we'll see what I can get done.

And....go!

Dusting off the old stuff: my first review

So I was searching for A Thousand Faces content and I discovered this site which reviewed A Thousand Faces #2, which featured my first published work, "For What Purpose." And the review itself, while brief, was scathing.

"For What Purpose is the generic superhero monologue every fan’s already read."

And while the reviewer was pretty negative on the issue as a whole, I felt a little shorted in that I got a whole sentence to sum up my story. Although, I have to admit, she was right. If you don't believe me, click on the above link to read the story.

I'm now looking forward to scathing reviews for "The Nature of the Job." Oh, professional writing! The adventures you hold!

Comic Book Day, Hooray Hooray

Yep, that's what day it is. Wednesday. Comic book day. I'm a little less than two hours away from getting my books and writing reviews, which will be up this evening. In the meantime, I've been experimenting with Photoshop---expect to see some awesome crap from that as well.

I'm currently working on a story about a different type of superhero, but I keep getting stuck on the costume. So for the first time ever, I'm trusting an artist who is NOT my brother to design the suit I need to continue. At this stage, she's really excited to bust out something awesome, and I'm hugely looking forward to see what she comes up with.

Sigh. Two hours. Bored now. Game time.