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January 31, 2008
State of the Rob 01312008
* 2008 is starting out better than 2007 ended in most all regards. Sure, I'd prefer to be at home drawing all day like I did for the last half of 07, but I'd also like to not be evicted from said home.
* The day job looks to be an alright thing. It's nothing special, but it's money, and that's what I'm after. There's a lot of down time there which is affording me the luxury of working on projects (and to write this post).
* One of those projects is my next thing for Wowio. I'm about a month behind on this, but the extra time I've put into it will be worthwhile. It's called 'Midwestern' and will be a serialized novel updating monthly. I'm working up the story beats on it now and should begin writing in earnest soon-ish. More on this as it develops.
* Fans of my Image book The Believer will enjoy Midwestern.
* The book's going to expand on a lot of the concepts already presented in Black Chamber and Too Late, fleshing out that world and furthering the uber-story that is 'Unbroken Circle'.
* I'm also in the process of researching for 'Too Soon', the next Eddie Mann story. I've just got a few people to interview and then I should get into working on that in earnest. Hopefully there won't be any substantial gap between 'Too Late' and 'Too Soon' on Act-I-Vate, but I'll be realistic with my scheduling as well.
* These last two Garbo pictures are me working out some of the ideas I want to play with visually in 'Too Soon'. I'm going to open up my color palette a little more.
* Friday night Katy and I are going to a burlesque show and I'll probably be going to another Sunday night at Dr Sketchy's. I haven't been to the Doc's for a while now and am itching to do some figure drawing. It'll be sad without Laurenn but I'm sure Rita Bee will do fine.
* Saturday is the wrap party for Too Late with the folks who contributed and some other folks who helped me out along the way. I'm really looking forward to that.
* Now that things are calming down I think I'll work up another Reinventing Rob plan for 2008. I've got a lot going on and need to keep it all straight.
Posted by Schamberger at January 31, 2008 12:59 PM