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Journal Entry: Thu Nov 19, 2009, 9:24 AM

As You Can See ...



... I haven't improved my updating frequency. At all.

I've been pretty busy despite not having work. Still. But I've latched onto this Twitter thing and so I've been writing some. Once a week or so. I'll post them here after I've done the Twitter thing with them, if you're interested at all. Last week's was called Morning Commute and is in my gallery now.

So I've heard of this thing sort of going around the Internet where artists and writers are doing 100 pieces of art in 100 days. A lot of them started on 29 Sep 2009 so it will end for them on 01 Jan 2010, but the point of the exercise is to create something everyday. It's not as easy as it sounds, and I know writers doing it can't say enough about how they've improved by participating. Unlike NaNoWriMo, where just getting the word count matters (thus forcing some to produce crap prose just to make their goal), this exercise holds the word count down. Say, 400-1000 words per day. It's just vignettes or snippets, pieces of stuff, but it has to be new stuff. No copying/pasting something you wrote a while ago when you're stuck. Because of the discipline and the lower-pressure word counts, many writers are seeing improvement in their skill from doing the exercise.

I remember last year when I did some exercises. I really felt I'd gained in some small way, some baby steps taken forward in my craft. So this exercise is very interesting to me. I'm wondering if any of you are either doing something like this, have done something like this, or would be interested in doing it?

Sound off, tell me what you think.

There. I've updated my journal. Yeesh, I stink at this.

-JDT-




  • Mood: Tired

Devious Info

  • Interests: My wife, my children. Nothing else really matters anymore.
  • Favourite movie: Batman (Tim Burton); 12 Monkeys; The Good Shepherd; The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Favourite genre of music: Classical
  • Favourite artist: Skottie Young, Dan Jurgens, Mark Bagley, John Buscema, Jim Lee, J Scott Campbell, Mike Wieringo, MAD
  • Favourite poet or writer: Robert Frost; Stephen King, Joe Hill, Sherri Cornelius, John Steinbeck, Penfury, Snow-Machine
  • Favourite photographer: *Tar-Vanimelde, *BPC73
  • Favourite style of art: Anything really well done, JSC, Joe MAD, Skottie Young, Jim Lee, Brian Hitch
  • Operating System: Whatever's on the PC
  • Personal Quote: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
  • Tools of the Trade: Imagination, nightmares, keyboard
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:icontar-vanimelde:
i hope you're having a wonderful week :aww:

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:icondarcknyt:
Thank you sweetie. I'm doing all right. I hope you are too. :hug:

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JDT :batman:
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:iconomomani:
interesting profile

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:icondarcknyt:
Thank you very much! I appreciate you stopping by.

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Thank you so much for adding my Ribbons in my hair drawing to your :+fav:'s! :iconfavthanksemotiplz:

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