you’re not invisible
Day two of coffee-job was significantly better!
First half entailed doing some internet ‘classes’ and learning how to use the digital brew system-thinger (which sounds a lot cooler than it was), and the second half conisisted of me following my instructor around. Tomorrow will be my first day on bar, which is both terrifying and exciting.
I turn into such an idiot newb whenever I’m in a new place. “Is this the drinking fountain? How do I drink from it?!” It’s like my entire brain shuts off from sheer nervousness.
Last night I doodled around in photoshop and this morning I started drawing zebras, since that’s what I really want for my header design. I don’t know if that will actually happen, since my zebra designs look approximately like someone barfed on the paper, but I’m a-workin’ on it.
It gives me something to do, anyway.
Lately I have been completely wrapped up mentally in a daydream-story about my two main characters. I’m kind of dumb about my stories–I have a tendency to create a complicated environment for characters to run around in, and then immediately discard it for my childhood fantasies of what it was like to be a gangster (strange modern but still noir gangsters… there is nothing in my life that is not complicated).
Anyway, it’s the easiest way for me to figure out my character’s motivations by throwing them into a set of actions that screw with their morals and their lives. I’ve never really thought about it, but it’s how I learn every detail about them. I don’t make it up, their actions determine it.
Does that sound schizo?
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July 23rd, 2008 at 4:38 am
That sounds BRILLIANT, not schizo. There are interviews with all sorts of authors where they were like, “I wanted to end the book with Bob Smith doing this thing, but then I realized, he WOULDN’T do this thing. He would do THAT THING.” It’s just getting to a point where the characters are completed, and not just your mouthpieces.
Which is totally an awesome thing. Sounds like your approaching it in a totally radical way.
Also, are you allowed to take pictures at Starbucks? Because that would be cool. :)
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:41 am
Well, good then! :D I like figuring out how my chars are. I think throwing them in my fave environment just levels the playing field for me? I know how they’re react in any situation, not just the book ones. *shrug*
Now if I could just start writing…
Haha, I doubt it! I remember hearing/being told that it was illegal to take pix in the stores… Also, I think I would, er, wait awhile before I started being a photo h0r. It probably wouldn’t be great to be all Junior Newslady my first week of work. ;)
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
It’s so funny/strange that so many places forbid you taking photos there. If I owned a store, I would be all, “I WILL POSE 4 U.”
I’m trying to think why it would be a liability or something and I am just not coming up with anything.