Friday woo hoo!

[aesc]

Yay: New layout! casa_mcshep! SPN 4.13 (boyyyys)! Getting orangey Rodneylike yarn! Surviving yesterday! Aside from a 6-hour power outage yesterday afternoon, life has treated my kindly the past two days.

I think the best part, though, is just finally, finally being able to get things done beyond the bare minimum required to satisfy people. After a year--really longer, but the past year has been notable for its awfulness--of torpor and feeling lousy and chronically exhausted, having some get-up-and-go is such a relief.

To celebrate, a meme! Stolen from telesilla: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

[tags are here! And hey, if you have a question about the art, for that matter, ask it! I like talking about teh arts.]

Comments

[lilyfarfalla.livejournal.com]

Oooh, re-reading aesc stories totally distracted me! Ahem.

1) that is LOVELY yarn. Yay! What exciting plans do you have for it?? (Or is the only thought to simply stare and occasionally cuddle with it? If so, understood.)

And, 2) if you still feel like memeing: A Face Nobody Knows.

Anyways, yay x millions for get-up-and-go! I hope it stays with you. :D

[aesc.livejournal.com]

1) I don't know what I will do with the yarn yet! Maybe make a cowl (even though I have another one already, heh) or else a hat. Or I might just cuddle it :D

2) Boy did I learn a lot about tone with AFNK :D Definitely the hardest part of the story wasn't the plot--that was actually fairly easy to figure out--but trying to get it to feel like noir and have that atmosphere. I ended up reading quite a bit of Raymond Chandler and Hammett's Maltese Falcon (and the fic itself is kind of a fusion of that novel and Chandler's The Long Goodbye, with some pulp science fiction thrown in). Little-known fact: the description of the diner in the opening scene is a representation of Edward Hopper's Night Hawks; I love that painting, and Hopper's urban works always have a noirish feeling to me, with those heavy shadows, even when the colors are bright.

Also, Rodney's office is, I think just a couple blocks down from where Philip Marlowe's office will end up being :D