New Years sklog; recent lapses & failures

Fairly pleased with 2008 New Years sklog; a kind of symbolic survey of the state of my life and mind; probably the major opus of my art career. Und so...

On a less positive note, 2007 was a fairly degenerate year for movies and books, and the polar ice cap continued to recede.

Also, I myself wallowed in failure - again - and allowed my current fantastic novel project to wither and die through neglect - again - something for which I'm not proud and will probably try to forget about by denying it loudly at parties and family socials until I've even started to believe it myself because I'm afraid that if I argue with myself and try to bring it up that my self will start talking really loud in the middle of the party and behave like an ass with the hostess and drop chip parts in the guac and dribble on his shirt and break the toilet and it's better to just keep pretending that everything is fine even though I've had it and I just can't stand it anymore.

I've also not really been keeping up with the sklog, which is really supposed to be weekly, but I haven't exactly been wasting my time because I've reached four hat level in my crossword book and how likely is it that anyone besides my mother or my wife will notice if a sklog stays on the page for longer than a week?

Latest sklog and graphic novellette progress report

5,685 words and counting! In the midst of the production of which I made some creative control decisions and went through some sleepless nights and decided to make the novel a graphic novellette. It seemed more realistic after I took a look at the novel's content in terms of quantity (averaging a shade over 189 words a day) and in terms of quality (five disparate plots, innumerable changes in tone and genre, and a change in narrator from first-person to third-person, back to first, then back to third-person again, basically a literary triple play and we're still not out of the first chapter) and I've decided that my text could use some bolstering from visual aids. And I hate describing things to people. And I hate reading other people's descriptions of things. Hence the graphic - and I don't like over-long books - hence the novellette.

Of course that means I'll have to practice comic forms. This week's sklog is my first attempt at incorporating text boxes, word balloons, and thought bubbles into the visual arts medium. Text boxes are fantastic because they're cheating on the purity of the visual narration, just as the visual narration is cheating on the purity of the verbal narration, and everyone's cheating on each other and nobody minds because it's a party and let's invite the word balloons and the thought bubbles too because they're both totally groovy and they understand and everyone can just crash on the couch or the floor. Happy Holidays!