What a wholesome fuckin’ day.
Brunch and skipping stones on the beach, racing leaves through the rapids of a small stream, then picking ginger golds ripe from the tree.
Doesn’t get much better than that, kid.
Target: 1700 words
Written: 908 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Anyone, Charles Soule
Comics: Tech Jacket v2 6-8, Invincible 116
Music: Futures, Jimmy Eat WorldEr, granddaughter. And yes, the spelling is intentional.
Even if it was a mistake.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1696 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Anyone, Charles Soule
Comics: Invincible 114-115, Tech Jacket v2 4-5
Music: Future Primitive, The VinesAnd time-consuming. Not sure how I’m going to manage being up at the granddaughter’s this weekend. Up early and late, I guess, as usual.
Ugh.
Would that this didn’t require the theft of sleep.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1572 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Rule Of Capture, Christopher Brown (well done, sir)
Comics: Tech Jacket v2 1-3, Invincible 113
Music: Future Nostalgia, The SheepdogsGeez, this editing thing is time-consuming. Granted, when it’s my full time job I’ll spend four or five times the amount of time doing it, but I won’t have a full time job fuckin’ up the works.
Or the work.
Whatever.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 2360 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Rule Of Capture, Christopher Brown
Comics: Invincible Universe 12, Invincible 110-112
Music: Further Down The Spiral, Nine Inch Nails (every day)No time for love, Doctor Jones.
I have a date with my niece before she goes back to college, and we’ve barely seen her all summer. I can’t wait.
I love those kids as though they were my own.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1572 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Rule Of Capture, Christopher Brown
Comics: Invincible 108-109, Invincible Universe 10-11
Music: Furniture, Fugazi (great band, most bland album titles)Haven’t had one of these in a while.
This sucks.
And yet, I was able to prepare a six-course meal.
Go figure.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1504 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Rule Of Capture, Christopher Brown
Comics: Invincible Universe 8-9, Invincible 107, Tech Jacket 7
Music: Funk Essentials: The Best Of Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow (I hope)I know everyone has their own favourite Doctor (and I adore David Tennant, as well as Patrick Troughton and even William Hartnell, the old curmudgeon), but man, Tom Baker was next level, wasn’t he? (So’s Tennant, obviously.)
And I know it’s vogue to consider Rose, Amy Pond or Sarah-Jane Smith the greatest companions, but damn. Leela was fucking terrific. The first woman of real action, not screaming at every little thing. Plus, she nailed the comedy aspect of the thing.
Louise Jamieson, I salute you. You are my new favourite, even over Frazier Hines, who I loved, but also panicked over everything (come to think of it, only Ian Chesterton wasn’t otherwise running around in a panic.)
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1699 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Invincible 105-106, Invincible Universe 6-7
Music: Funeral, Arcade Fire (I mean, it's okay, but not worth all the praise they get. They're Modest Mouse ripoffs.)There’s a moment in the scene I’m writing, one of those searching misterrrr?, waiting on the name, and it is literally killing me (actual literal, I think) that the character would NEVER do what every dad joke bone in my body is screaming to do.
“Misterrrr…?”
“Fuck off.”
“Alright, Mister Fuckoff, what can I get you?”
Every goddamned time. I might have to rewrite that whole section so it doesn’t end up my greatest regret.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1495 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Invincible 103-104, Invincible Universe 4-5
Music: Fully Completely, The Tragically Hip (if it's not the greatest Canadian album ever, it's top five, for sure)It’s weird; for an agnostic who believes only in what is, I sure write a lot about what isn’t.
Because maybe it is somewhere. In enough universes, enough dimensions, who knows what the baselines might be?
That’s the fun of it. I actually loved the idea of imagination being a primary power source for dimensional travel in Black Science. It makes perfect sense.
And as I struggle to lay the basis of the lore of Nggoth, I can’t help but wonder…
What else is out there?
What else could possibly be?
There are no limits save those we place on ourselves, at least in the dimensional teleports of imagination.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1683 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Invincible Universe 1-3, Invincible 102
Music: Full Swing: Act 1, Various, but mostly for the Big Rude JakeOne of the two scenes I worked on today, I actually teared up at a tender moment between husband and wife. I think I might finally be getting the hang of it.
If I can make myself cry, heck, maybe the same can be true for someone else.
love is patient, love is kind… and so on and so forth.
One of the few things the Bible gets right.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1623 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Father Lightning
Comics: Guarding The Globe v2 5-6, Invincible 100-101
Music: Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (what an album. Been a while since I listened to it and I forgot that literally every song on it is a fuckin' banger.)