Hear ye hear ye: delightful friend Ed’s film The Last Great Snail Chase is playing at the Film Archive in Wellington this Friday and Saturday (7pm both days).
This is a chance to see this very interesting, expressive and entertaining film on the big screen (or, indeed, at all).
Here’s an interview with Ed about the film at Lumiere, a couple of reviews at Flicks, and my post about seeing the premiere two years ago.
Day: April 1, 2009
Writing Update – March
So my plan to write twelve short stories in twelve months continues. Yesterday I sent the first two for the year off to local lit journal JAAM.
Story #3, promised to readers a month ago, has been mothballed – it just doesn’t work and I don’t want to send anyone to sleep. I need to totally rethink what I’ve done there and see if I can salvage anything. There’s one really cool idea in it but everything else feels wrong and the cool idea isn’t leveraged well enough. Gah.
Story #4 is in progress. This one I actually sat down and made some notes about in advance of writing the first word, a level of planning that is rare for me. It helped me find the right way into the idea, I’m sure, but I’m now second-guessing where I thought I was going. Still, I think there’s promise in it. To be continued.
There is no story #5. Yet.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with my progress. I could definitely be going faster but it does feel like things are getting done. So that’s good.
Meanwhile, I’m meeting with comics artist girl for an hour every Monday to work on page design and tighten up scripts. It is fruitful. I wish I could draw as well as she does.