There is silence in the bloody library as well.
I have been totally floored by how good Doctor Who was this week. It can only be good news that Stephen Moffat is taking over the honcho position when RTD hangs up his gloves next year - not because there's anything wrong with Russ, but Moffat has certainly shown he can handle fanboy drama more than most. How do I know this - because I am constantly captivated by what he does, my kids are scared of all his episodes (Girl in the Fireplace, Blink) and even though events always run along a knife-edge, he still finds ways of dropping in some in-jokes. It's also quite cool that he doesn't have a website of his own. Annoying but cool.
So, the reason for silence in the library at home this past weekend is that Too Hot for Dogs has undergone major surgery. No sooner had I finished the first draft, I stood back, took a wider view, asked a trusted source for an even wider view and went back to the drawing board - not totally, but I've pretty much rewritten the whole script, re-layed all the design elements and even shifted entire scenes around. We decided to drop different art in to the cover slot as well, so if you like the one on the right, take a long hard look because it won't be there tomorrow!
I was pissed off on Friday but yesterday I saw that what had to be done was good and true and today I'm much happier with it than I was before the weekend. There's still about another weeks work to do on it, but that's OK I think. Charlie has submitted some more frames which have made a huge difference, but she's already on the second book with the art so I have some major catching up to do.
You know what though - I wouldn't change a thing. It just gets better every time I update it, but I will stop soon before I break it!
Meanwhile, my buddy Richie has loaded up one of my old songs to some online recording studio and has started rebuilding it from the ground up. I'm well impressed! I find it a bit weird that he still wants to keep the old band name of Spiritwalker but somehow it seems the right thing to do and sits fine with me - probably because I've had it filed under 'unfinished business' for all this time... but it's still weird!
Over at Burn, I blasted my way through the final proofs of three of the main articles for re-launch and it's looking good. It's nice not to have to worry about the design and production of it for a change. That would have been a killing blow to the schedule! It's in safe hands too. JP is good egg, knows what he's doing and is hungry for it. All good things.
Until this first issue of 2H4D is done, I'm not touching any other projects but life goes on around me... my beloved Audi 100 that I've had for five years is finally dead. Well she's actually walking wounded but I refuse to drive her anymore. 170,000 miles on the clock and if I could be bothered I'm sure I could fix her up but I've lost my faith. So after ten years of black Audi's in some form or other, it's time for a change and this time I'm looking at a Saab 900 in silver. It's almost as big a wrench to the i.d. as when I had my hair cut, but I think the point of a car is to get from A to B in one piece - not going to let this one get under my skin too much! Why do we get attached to machines? I blame my parents...
Footnote: I know I said that I wasn't touching any other projects it occurred to me that it was Friday when I ran my initial idea for a kids book called The Black Wood past Charlotte and she said she would be game to illustrate that too. Damn.
Currently reading: Only my own work.
Currently listening to: Anything ipod shuffle wants to throw at me.
Currently watching: Nothing at all.
