I have to stay up all night.
My TV Workshop class is doing this story about late cabs. We're splitting up into groups, going up to Pizza Corner with some handy-cams, and calling some cabs from different companies. We're going to see how long it takes for each cab to get here.
It's kind of like a race.
So I have to stay awake. I was already in the TV Room for a better part of the day, working on my script for my piece for next week. I hope it comes together. I'm just stressing over it too much. I'm looking forward to standing outside with my friends.
In the cold.
On Pizza Corner.
At 2:00am.
So...if anyone happens to be around...come visit?
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Okay, somebody clarify this for me.
Khopesh.
Pronounced COW-PEAS or KO-PESH?
A khopesh is an ancient Egyptian sword that looks like a bigger version of a sickle. One of my characters carries one and I'd like to know how to pronounce, you know, just in case I happen to read it out loud or something.
Khopesh.
Pronounced COW-PEAS or KO-PESH?
A khopesh is an ancient Egyptian sword that looks like a bigger version of a sickle. One of my characters carries one and I'd like to know how to pronounce, you know, just in case I happen to read it out loud or something.
Jessie came over last night and we talked about the artwork for the zine.
It's going to be called Darkest Fae. Why? I don't really know. I think it has a nice ring to it. Also, it's about the aftermath of a war between Humans and Faeries, where the daughter of a former Fae tyrant goes into hiding to escape fulfilling a dark prophecy that predicts her destroying the human race.
I bought the cardstock to print the zine about two weeks ago, and I'm glad I did that. Once I spend money on something, I'm fairly committed to it. If I don't, it just remains an idea.
So I showed Jessie the layout I wanted, and we discussed font for the title. Since she's a super NSCAD student and has studied calligraphy, she knows how to pick apart fonts so we can substitute letters that I don't like for better, more prettier ones. We looked at free-font websites and I picked a few styles I liked. She used them as a reference to create a style I like.
Next step: make a stencil and [spray paint?] it on to the cardstock. This might be cleaner than simply rolling on the ink. But we'll see.
One thing I do promise, though: Pictures! I will upload pictures for when we actually assemble the zines. For it will be muchly fun times.
It's going to be called Darkest Fae. Why? I don't really know. I think it has a nice ring to it. Also, it's about the aftermath of a war between Humans and Faeries, where the daughter of a former Fae tyrant goes into hiding to escape fulfilling a dark prophecy that predicts her destroying the human race.
I bought the cardstock to print the zine about two weeks ago, and I'm glad I did that. Once I spend money on something, I'm fairly committed to it. If I don't, it just remains an idea.
So I showed Jessie the layout I wanted, and we discussed font for the title. Since she's a super NSCAD student and has studied calligraphy, she knows how to pick apart fonts so we can substitute letters that I don't like for better, more prettier ones. We looked at free-font websites and I picked a few styles I liked. She used them as a reference to create a style I like.
Next step: make a stencil and [spray paint?] it on to the cardstock. This might be cleaner than simply rolling on the ink. But we'll see.
One thing I do promise, though: Pictures! I will upload pictures for when we actually assemble the zines. For it will be muchly fun times.
Ever since I did my zine story (which airs on Thursday night on Eastlink) I have been really into zines.
So much that I really want to do one. And by really want, I mean, actually. I've already written some fiction that I'd like to put in it.
This idea went through a lot of stages. I would like to revise Splat! Fiction, but it's been pretty dead for the past year, and I'm not sure if I have the finances to do it. That, and, I'm waiting to take the Advanced Magazine workshop in March as a credit so that I can properly know how to set it all up.
So then I was like, well, maybe I could publish Two-Spirit as a zine. Then I was like, hmm, no, I still want to keep that for ebook form.
So I was searching through the depths of my idea banks and came across a story I started in high school that never really got all the potential squeezed out of it. And since I'm in an epic fantasy sort of mood (currently *still* reading Kate Forsyth's Tower of Ravens), I thought, well, why can't I put out a serial fiction zine?
I had a mental ethics debate about this. Would people actually buy fiction zines with my own stuff in it?
You know what?
I talked to Andy Brown from Conundrum Press as part of my interviewing for the zines story. He said, I publish people who are already getting their stuff out there. I like self promoters. It tells me that they are willing to go the extra mile for their work.
Not a direct quote.
But still. It made me think...why the hell not? Plus, I went to Loomis and Tolls and bought some pretty cardstock to make pretty covers. Yay!
Now, all I have to do is put up the new website.
Oh, one more writing related thing. Vincenzo and I did a story on NaNoWriMo this week, which is also airing on Eastlink. It's all up the website. This is going to be the best episode of the 'Fax yet!
So much that I really want to do one. And by really want, I mean, actually. I've already written some fiction that I'd like to put in it.
This idea went through a lot of stages. I would like to revise Splat! Fiction, but it's been pretty dead for the past year, and I'm not sure if I have the finances to do it. That, and, I'm waiting to take the Advanced Magazine workshop in March as a credit so that I can properly know how to set it all up.
So then I was like, well, maybe I could publish Two-Spirit as a zine. Then I was like, hmm, no, I still want to keep that for ebook form.
So I was searching through the depths of my idea banks and came across a story I started in high school that never really got all the potential squeezed out of it. And since I'm in an epic fantasy sort of mood (currently *still* reading Kate Forsyth's Tower of Ravens), I thought, well, why can't I put out a serial fiction zine?
I had a mental ethics debate about this. Would people actually buy fiction zines with my own stuff in it?
You know what?
I talked to Andy Brown from Conundrum Press as part of my interviewing for the zines story. He said, I publish people who are already getting their stuff out there. I like self promoters. It tells me that they are willing to go the extra mile for their work.
Not a direct quote.
But still. It made me think...why the hell not? Plus, I went to Loomis and Tolls and bought some pretty cardstock to make pretty covers. Yay!
Now, all I have to do is put up the new website.
Oh, one more writing related thing. Vincenzo and I did a story on NaNoWriMo this week, which is also airing on Eastlink. It's all up the website. This is going to be the best episode of the 'Fax yet!
