mid-may goals recap

All right, rather than trying to catch up on (what feels like) months of missed blogging, I'll just jump in today as if nothing happened. Kinda like I tried to do for my 366 project, which has flickered out yet again.

Rewrite (at least) one of my novels.
I've decided this is a June goal, since that's when the createspace offer from last year's NaNo expires. So, I haven't made any progress on this front recently. I finished another novel though, and at 48k words it's definitely my shortest. Might be a good one to start a rewrite on.

I could have been working on it this month, but I was planning to do Story a Day in May. That's also kind of fizzled out. I suppose I could still try for it this last week, but I have almost no motivation to do so. I feel kind of blah overall, regarding my writing. :/

project 366 - another dose of highlights

I finally got caught up on my 366 project again. I'd been taking photos, and even processing most of them, but without actually putting them on my flickr, it didn't feel like I'd been keeping up on my goal. I even felt like calling it quits again. But now that I have them all up, I feel better about this project. So here are my favorites since the last update (going to be a long post, since it's been a while):

leave a message after the (text) tone

Okay, that title really makes no sense. But basically, this blog is to highlight the latest project I did for my design class, where we used text as value (tone). Here's a link to the picture, which you can click on to make it huge: http://armyofgnomes.deviantart.com/art/text-tones-self-portrait-290078115

There are five values (six, if you count the background). This is where you're supposed to guess what they all are.

Tone 1: paper white
Tone 2: katakana
Tone 3: script
Tone 4: kanji
Tone 5: black

Extra tone: background kanji

february goals recap

Rewrite (at least) one of my novels.
I've been focusing more on writing lately--trying to finish one WIP before starting in on a sequel for my second finished novel, since my writers' group is doing our own NaNoWriMo in March. Maybe I'll take the summer to focus more on this goal?

Finish my fanfic.
Yeah, just 'cause I said I was writing, doesn't mean it was this . . . sorry story alert peeps.

project 366 - february highlights

I restarted my daily photography project, though instead of only self-portraits, I'm now allowing myself to do the point my camera at cool things in nature that I like to do--especially on bad hair days. Also, I know February isn't over yet, but if I take any more really cool pictures, I can always edit the post.

As with all things requiring commitment and time, I keep wondering whether I should just scrap it, but I look back at all the pictures I took for the last project I did, and I know that I got a bunch of cool shots I otherwise would have never gotten. Not to mention how much it taught me about self portraits and editing.

So anyway, to keep myself motivated, here are those 'cool shots I wouldn't have taken otherwise', i.e. my favorites so far this project.