Ok. So this week I sort of finished one of those short story drafts I mentioned. The flash piece “Going Home” is now available on site. As with any of the other pieces on site, it’s not necessarily its final state but any changes are likely to be small and unannounced – things like noticing typos, and so on – if anything changes at all. I may never come back to it. If you want to make some critiquing commentary about it (whether it works for you, what you got from it, what’s wrong with the nuts and bolts of it), please leave a comment about it with the story. It’ll prompt me to move that much faster on it, if nothing else. And for those who want to know, the title “Going Home” is actually a colloquial phrase for something that is broken and nearing the end of its use. I don’t know how widespread it is, but it’s certainly used by my family in Yorkshire.
The Littlest Musketeer
To the right is another attempt at with the Wacom Bamboo Touch [External Link] combined with the online editing program Pixlr [External Link]. This is another trace of an existing photo, this time of my niece about a year ago. You may even recognise the uniform (without detail). Not sure the attempt at hair works and my hand needs to get a bit steadier, but it was definitely an interesting way to kill an hour or so. Those of you who know me on Facebook and Google+ may have noticed that I’ve already made the picture available through my profiles.
As for everything else in life (look away now if this minutiae are of no interest):
- The spare bedroom is about 2/3 nekkid. I expect the walls to be bare by Wednesday and then I have to wrestle some more with the dado rail and the radiator. Only the radiator will be returning.
- The garden is starting to look a bit tidier but I haven’t tackled the front yard, yet, so the neighbours still think I’m a slattern [Online Etymology Dictionary entry: External Link] (they’re right).
- I’m still considering creating extra categories for this incarnation website. Ones that would allow me to express opinions without having to lump it in with my obvious interests or these weekly round-ups / diary entries / blatherings. And maybe ones for the drawing and the blacksmithing – if I ever get back to it. I’d quite like to do some stuff on identity (a bit like that rant a couple of weeks back) and I’m thinking it might be time to dust of my environmental thoughts – with allowance for the fact that I work for a waste management company, so some subjects will have to remain strictly off limits. But I am also lazy and quite like my site the way it is.
Happy Halloween for tomorrow. I’m off to work on the other short story.