Tyler Weaver's Blog, page 10

“Don’t eat the couch”

I used those words this morning.

Still trying new things out in this space, honing, refining, Goldilocksing: aiming for less effort, less thought intensive. Make it part of the morning ritual – considering this something of a beta week here while I get my sea legs.

Tags starting to make more sense to me, coalescing into something useful: Informalties as whenever/whatevers, dashed-off thoughtlets. These Morning pieces as a daily thing, the curtain raising / hoist that rag. Whatever else shows up throughout the day as whatever it will be.

The dogchildren await their sustenance.

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#nationaldogday.

August’s MacroParentheticals

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Learned / in process of

(Since yesterday):

1.) In order for The Work to work in the afternoon, it has to be a different project than in the morning. When I started yesterday afternoon in an attempt to continue on with the novella, it was an abject disaster. Once I shifted over to the comics thing, I was golden – and made something resembling progress. (And this morning's work on the novella also went well.)

2.) Still haven't figured out if "Informalities" remains the tag for these morning pieces or not. Given what this space has morphed into, it might be something different. Or simply an excuse for me to think about pointless things.

3.) If I had to pick one space in which to talk to myself, this is it. I'm all too aware that I'm talking to myself in the media social; I'm aware of it here too, except that I'm posting things here because I enjoy it.

3a.) August's newsletter arrives on Sunday. If you're not already a subscriber, you can sign up here, if so inclined.

4.) The wiki-knowledge-base approach in Obsidian is great for unpacking text (and my edit-as-I-go method): I add brackets around a piece of text I'd like to dig deeper into, and a new document is created with that title: a fresh slate, a new node, to explore and deepen. File accordingly.

5.) Anti-mask/vax parents continue to be a thorn in the side of my wife's school district. I often wonder what could be accomplished if those militantly anti-(insert any reason-infused issue here) corporeal trolls turned their attention to issues that actually mattered. They claim they're doing it for the children but, in my experience, kids are a lot more adaptable than their parents which, of course, brings up the whole control / what will my children think when they can think for themselves issue that threatens the fragile illusions/delusions of so many shitty parents.

/26Aug2021

(Since yesterday):

1.) In order for The Work to work in the afternoon, it has to be a different project than in the morning. When I started yesterday afternoon in an attempt to continue on with the novella, it was an abject disaster. Once I shifted over to the comics thing, I was golden – and made something resembling progress. (And this morning's work on the novella also went well.)

2.) Still haven't figured out if "Informalities" remains the tag for these morning pieces or not. Given what this space has morphed into, it might be something different. Or simply an excuse for me to think about pointless things.

3.) If I had to pick one space in which to talk to myself, this is it. I'm all too aware that I'm talking to myself in the media social; I'm aware of it here too, except that I'm posting things here because I enjoy it.

3a.) August's newsletter arrives on Sunday. If you're not already a subscriber, you can sign up here, if so inclined.

4.) The wiki-knowledge-base approach in Obsidian is great for unpacking text (and my edit-as-I-go method): I add brackets around a piece of text I'd like to dig deeper into, and a new document is created with that title: a fresh slate, a new node, to explore and deepen. File accordingly.

5.) Anti-mask/vax parents continue to be a thorn in the side of my wife's school district. I often wonder what could be accomplished if those militantly anti-(insert any reason-infused issue here) corporeal trolls turned their attention to issues that actually mattered. They claim they're doing it for the children but, in my experience, kids are a lot more adaptable than their parents which, of course, brings up the whole control / what will my children think when they can think for themselves issue that threatens the fragile illusions/delusions of so many shitty parents.

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An office isn’t a Sanctum without Kaluta’s work on its walls. This one’s been with me in every room I’ve given that name. Happy birthday to the inimitable Mike Kaluta.

Links, 25aug2021

"The truth is we have no historical precedent for the moment we’re in now. We need to stop thinking back to 1918 as a guide for how to act in the present and to start thinking forward from 2021 as a guide to how to act in the future. This is the pandemic I will be studying and teaching to the next generation of doctors and public-health students." - History Wont Help Us Now, via The Atlantic.

Andreas, HPL and RHB, via {feuilleton}.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1913), via Internet Archive.

“We do not feel safe”: A Kabul-based crisis alert app struggles to protect its own employees, via Rest of the World.

George Pelecanos Inks Overall Deal With HBO; Sets Series Adaptation Of John D. MacDonald’s ‘The Last One Left’, via Deadline.

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Stick.

/25aug2021

Still loving Obsidian and this knowledge base sense of scavenging my brain and circling (in the holding pattern sense) the results from above and within. It really is a tool that's far more in line with my thought processes and the way I work – though it does require a modicum of faith that all the disparate pieces will connect and that I'll be able to turn them into something worthwhile. (I’m working on getting there, faith - of any kind - never being my strong suit.)

Spent yesterday afternoon on the comics thing: a clarity WRT the rules of the world(s) in which I'm mucking about. From past experience, comics being my unicorn and all – that mythological yettobe – I'm leaving open the possibility that the final iteration of these stories will be serialized or standalone shorts/novellas. That said, I'm writing them in script format an amplifying my ambitions accordingly: I want these to be comics; it is way past time that I express myself in this medium which I love so dearly.

Also, comics: I love that writing in script format exercises a different part of my creative brain – and, if nothing else, I've always found said format to be a more beneficial first draft of any final medium than a prose-vomit draft.

Next thing to decide is whether I work on one project each day or split the day into multiple. Both have their pros and cons.

Happy that this space has become a full-on catchall; it feels like home.

Circling / Comics

Still loving Obsidian and this knowledge base sense of scavenging my brain and circling (in the holding pattern sense) the results from above and within. It really is a tool that's far more in line with my thought processes and the way I work – though it does require a modicum of faith that all the disparate pieces will connect and that I'll be able to turn them into something worthwhile. (I’m working on getting there, faith - of any kind - never being my strong suit.)

Spent yesterday afternoon on the comics thing: a clarity WRT the rules of the world(s) in which I'm mucking about. From past experience, comics being my unicorn and all – that mythological yettobe – I'm leaving open the possibility that the final iteration of these stories will be serialized or standalone shorts/novellas. That said, I'm writing them in script format an amplifying my ambitions accordingly: I want these to be comics; it is way past time that I express myself in this medium which I love so dearly.

Also, comics: I love that writing in script format exercises a different part of my creative brain – and, if nothing else, I've always found said format to be a more beneficial first draft of any final medium than a prose-vomit draft.

Next thing to decide is whether I work on one project each day or split the day into multiple. Both have their pros and cons.

Happy that this space has become a full-on catchall; it feels like home.