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Hmm

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I'm not dead, just incredibly busy at work and I haven't painted anything in ages, so there didn't seem like much point in posting. Suffice to stay life is going well.

Also: yaaaaay!
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Title speaks the truth.

Anyhoo - Happy 2008 to one and all! I hope you all had a great holiday. I know I did. I also got the best present ever, a super sci-fi quality mobile phone because my old one isn't really up to the job. I've been playing a lot of - i.e. too much - Mass Effect and this could seriously have come out of there. It doubles as a voice recorder and I need one of those so very badly, especially if I get midnight ideas. Which I'm currently not.

That's the main reason I haven't posted: I feel really drained at the moment. My creativity is on the fritz because I'm extremely stressed out and distracted. I can't write anything (apart from wiki articles, strangely) so that's going to be my next technique in a vain attempt to make myself do some bloody work. I have no more episodes of Nones lined up and a story I was writing for KOTORFMS is falling by the wayside. Hopefully I'll pull myself together. I've also just had one of my wisdom teeth pulled out - that really annoying little SOB at the back that cut me every time I bit down is now gone, yay - and I have a killer cold that seems to be entering my head by cutting in through my sinuses, which is not very conducive to the recouperating creative processes.

On the bright side (she says, after bitching about not being able to work) Shadow is now third drafted. I just have to give it one last read through and tweak, finish the selling synopsis and add a little to my ongoing commentary, and it's all done and dusted. My tutor says she doesn't need to read through the edited third draft version because I "know what I'm doing", to which I say, "have you not been paying attention to what I'm like??"

No matter. I'm just happy this is nearly all done. This time next month it will be all handed in and out of the way at long last.

Now I'm off for hot drinks and those really nice tissues that don't scar your nose. Jo out.

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Uh...

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Well, if my previous entry is any evidence, 'soon' in Jospeak translates as 'I'll vanish for a month and be invisible and never submit anything'. Oops.

I've been away in London at a careers fair and then visiting a friend (we went to see the Lord of the Rings stage show and it was transcendent) but I know even without that, I haven't submitted any deviations for long while. This is because I literally haven't picked up my stylus or my pencil in ages. My brain is turned all the way over to Writing FM, apparently, and it might take a while to turn it back into its usual median level. The only thing I'm happy with lately is the latest cover for Nones, so I've submitted that - even then, that's catchup.

But this is because I've been delayed by finishing Shadow to a second draft.

Two years of work completed finally. I nearly gave myself a brain hemorrhage doing it to a stupid deadline, but it's done and getting feedback from some very kind guinea pigs readers and friends. My tutor says she's happy for me to make a submission for January 23rd, so my baby gets to go out into the big wide world then.

After which I will huddle in a corner and rock back and forth until I get my results. Be warned.

So! I'm moving on to other projects, both of them sci-fi, one long, one short, to clear my head. I also need to catch up with Nones as a matter of urgency, but I'm having trouble concentrating on that for some reason. I think I just need to do a little plot planning, so don't worry. Nones is always fun to come back to. However there may not be an anniversary picture on time. Depends what I have going on.

I cleaned out my bedroom today and cleared out the note pile I have by the side of my bed. This consists of a massive heap of scrap paper that I use for brief notes, either ideas that come when I'm falling asleep or when I'm gaming, or random streams of dialogue. In the cold light of day it makes interesting reading, I can tell you. Anyway, I want to preserve the best bits and toss the rest out, so I need to go and transcribe those into the appropriate Scrivener files. Later.


Jo out.

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Phew

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My continuing absence is explained here. Everything's fine, I'm just absolutely wrecked at the moment. See you soon.


Jo out.

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Nggg

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Rainy weather's finally broken here in the good old UK.

It's very bright and sunny out there, which is definitely a step in the right direction.

Unfortunately that also means Jo's Dehydration Headache is back and as annoying as ever. Means I actually have to start drinking... y'know... liquids. Sigh.

I still have a wagonload of work to do so I don't miss my deadline, but it's looking good. Yes! Soon I will no longer bore people to death with updates about Shadow they don't care about!

My brother came over for a few days and came to Foxton Locks with me and my mother. We got the best seat in the pub near the canals and later had ice cream from the old lock keeper's cottage.

There were two guys there up the bank, completely randomly, playing banjos. They were awesome.

I didn't have time to do a proper cover for Part Eight of Nones but somehow I've been able to do this on break from the book:



This is a cover for my TLJ story, Lost, which I haven't thought about in a while (despite the characters I created for it being some of my favourites). My illustrative abilities aren't that good right now, anyway. Took me seven goes to get one piece of illustrating done for Part Eight, and that's just pathetic. Better stay focused on one thing at a time.

Like keeping cool. And watching Dexter, which I'm about to do now.

Jo out.

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