1. Tomorrow is an uncertain day, a bit like riding a roller-coaster but it's in the dark, and you can't see if the track is about to rise steadily upward or, you know. Plunge. Consequently, I'm disaster-planning -- clothes for the day need to be in layers and very warm. I need to pick up snacks which are not primarily sugar and will keep me going. It's actually been a little while since the situation has felt like this, and I'm feeling very up and not terribly anxious about the whole thing. It will be as it is, and I have to be ready for it.
2. Met up with Jenny G and Christian tonight at Dolce Vita for writing. I ended up writing about 1600 hundred words, which should be great, but I'm still feeling a bit bored and listless with this story so it's going to back-burn for a while. Or something. I don't know. The character mechanics just weren't working for me, they weren't feeling natural at all. Which isn't to say that the writing was terrible, per se, and there's some bits I can use. I'll try to play around with some story ideas tomorrow, see what sticks. Maybe I'll devote some time to some completely weird crap.
3. And holy shit! Killraven!
(Cover by Alan Davis)
Raised in a bizarre gladiator school on a future Earth conquered by H.G. Wells's Martians! A future where most people run around in very little clothes, often favouring leather singlets and BDSM weapon-harnesses! Seething, awkward psychosexual dramas played out with insidious, xenophobic overlords and genetically engineered freaks like a bounty huntress called "Mint Julip." I wouldn't mind tracking down the original, Seventies stories -- known for their weirdness and expansive stories -- because of the early P. Craig Russell artwork. But Alan Davis's odd little prequel is interesting in its own right. Prequel, reimagining -- either way. His dialogue is, as ever, very stylized and stilted, but the artwork is beautiful and whole thing is a prolonged sci-fi gladiator comic.