C.E. Murphy's Blog, page 92
June 12, 2014
dear chance fans…
…if you had a choice between a whole Chance-world origin story or an introduction to a new modern character in the Chance world, which would you prefer?
I actually have an artist lined up (possibly even two) so I’m trying to get ducks in a row for doing some kind of mini-stories for web release and maybe eventual Comixology release.
Speaking of which, I’ve just taken the first small step toward getting Chance prepared to submit to Comixology by getting my colorist to redo 3 or 4 pages where we...
a month of workouts, i hope
I live in the eternal belief that tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year, I’m going to wake up an entirely different person and actually do the (insert great thing) here that I intend to do. I never actually do this, of course, but I live in eternal hope.
However, having just come off two weeks of slovenly gluttony during which I blew out the thigh of my last pair of jeans, forcing me to go participate in the horrendous activity of clothes shopping, I’m…not exactly seized. More li...
June 10, 2014
a good superhero day
It’s been a good superhero day. First, this morning:
Young Indiana, looking at a picture of the Carol Danvers Ms Marvel: Is that Lightning Lady?
Me: . o O ( wow, i have really *got* to write a comic of his superhero characters! )
Later, in the rain:
Young Indiana: I’m Superman! I’ll stop the rain!
Me: We’re gonna need Storm for that, honey.
Young Indiana: STORM! Can you please stop the rain?
*rain stops*
(srsly, got a whole lineup of superheros now. the invisible hulk (which is like my favourite idea...
Mental Health Day
I asked for a Mental Health Day as a birthday present from my parents, and yesterday got to take advantage of it. They collected Young Indiana at about 9am, leaving me to sit quietly and finish reading my book without interruption (!).
Book finished, I toddled into town and met a friend for lunch, which was great fun and involved a lot of laughter and probably too-loud voices. :) After that I got a 90 minute massage, after which I was going to have an eye exam but I decided focusing was too m...
June 9, 2014
Recent Reads: The Tamir Triad
I very nearly did not finish even the first book (THE BONE DOLL’S TWIN) of this trilogy, nevermind the whole thing, but damn, I’m glad I did.
I’d had it recommended to me a while back when I was thinking about the structure of a YA series I want to write someday. As it happens, it doesn’t do the thing I was thinking about, which is neither here nor there, but holy wow is it well written. I mean, really, really well written, to the point that despite the fact that I was not enjoying what I was...
June 6, 2014
exercise room :)
So my dad has converted the garden shed at my parents’ place into an exercise studio, with a weight bench and a stationary bike and free weights. I said heck, I was going to just start going over there to exercise!
“Good idea!” Ted said brightly. “It’s even a gym that provides childcare!”
*laughs and laughs* My parents thought it was funny, too, but I just like imagining the look on Mom’s face. :)
Actually, Ted also said “All it needs is a dance barre!” and now I’m all thinky. :)
The post exercis...
June 5, 2014
Picoreview: Maleficent
Picoreview: Maleficent: a worthy re-telling of (specifically Disney’s) Sleeping Beauty, and one that caused me to leave the theatre thinking “Victors write the histories.”
It’s not perfect. There’s a voiceover that I think would have been better done as in-story storytelling instead, but to have done that successfully I think the movie would have needed a PG13/12A rating rather than the PG it got. And–this is something I will almost never say–I thought it *should* have been a PG13 movie.
That...
June 4, 2014
Recent Reads: Redshirts
I’m way behind the curve on reading REDSHIRTS, but it is, as generally advertised, a fun book. It gets a little too caught up in its own cleverness, but mostly it works. I also presume it’s generally more fun to read if you’re a Star Trek fan, but since I am one, I can’t tell if it lacks if you’re not.
Aside from the presumption of more fun/sense if you’re a Star Trek fan, it has too many characters with similar names, which makes it hard to keep track if you’re not really dedicated to it, and...
patreon problem
The payment problem on Patreon was my fault. Twice I set the stupid thing to “patrons only” and totally missed the other place where I was supposed to set it to “paid creation”.
I’m in a really bad mood right now.
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patreon difficulties
So one of the real problems people are having with Patreon is that it’s non-intuitive. Maybe this is partly because my project, crowdfunding a book one chapter at a time, is not actually an ideal one to run via Patreon, but there are definitely problems that go beyond that.
Kickstarter is easy. Kickstarter you give $X and you get #Y in return. One shot and it’s done.
Patreon sets a price-per-creation and then asks for many small donations to achieve that price-per-creation. It’s intended to cat...
