Oh, look at that post underneath this one. Didn’t I sound so confident about NaNoWriMo? Ugh - time has just slipped away from me this month, what with sorting out the print edition of Jump Leads #1, (which may end up getting delayed because the company I was using to print the thing are apparently a Consortium of Knuckleheads) and also preparing to visit England for a week (which is, itself, a week I will be spending Not Writing Things). It seems destined to not happen this year, so… it’s not happening. And I’ll say no more about it.
I’ve had a lot of feedback about my Tattoo plans, and I was recently told by someone about the Ten Year Rule, namely if you think it’s still a good idea to get a particular thing tattoo’d on you in ten years’ time, then get it done then. I then invoked that rule, reducing it to nine years because I’d been planning on getting this tattoo about a year ago, and then discovered that every other bugger on the Intertubes already has a Space Invader tattoo’d upon their personage. Hmm. I’ll have to rethink this. Someone - I think it was my sister - suggested getting a Jump Leads tattoo. This is not, strictly speaking, a Bad Idea.
I did have one concerned fan email me to make sure that Jump Leads wasn’t impacted by the Writers’ Strike here in the US. The concern is touching, of course, but no. No strike action here. The lack of a comic update today can be seen as a show of support for the Guild, if you like. It’s not the actual reason, but then there are people who think that the They Might Be Giants song “Birdhouse in Your Soul” is about God when it’s actually about a bird-shaped plug-in nightlight, so each to their own, I suppose.
I am working on other writing projects, though. Euan and I have resuscitated a collaborative sitcom project we were working on at the start of the year, which is looking promising now that we’ve broken away from some of our over-zealous On Rails outlines - we over-planned the pilot, so neither of us felt comfortable writing it because we didn’t feel we had any freedom. Now we have a vague shape of what we want to do with the pilot script in our minds, and we’re just letting it freeform. I’d love to eventually film it and get it online a la ./shutdown, however that would necessitate having access to things I don’t have access to. Like a store which sells both videogames and comics books at the same time. And possibly a car. And a driver’s license.
Right, I’m done now. I should really get back to pretending to do some work.
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