The last couple days, I have been dreaming when my radio turns on, so I wake up slowly and remember the dreams. Yesterday morning, I dreamed of several vivid good things but the one I remember is dreaming of writing on a story -- a story I am actually writing -- and that was yay. Also, yesterday everything smelled good all day because of the first rain in a long time. Thick, rich smells you could almost cut with a knife. I bet the dogs loved it: their world got 300 times more colorful overnight.

This morning, I was dreaming of reading Patrick O'Brian's drawerfic. (Drawerfic being the stories that are written and then shut in a drawer forever, usually from professional embarrassment.) There were several short stories. The one I remember had a captain who was a cross between Jack and the saintly Anson, who took on some convict castaways, one of whom -- a fatalistic Irish maid -- was later revealed to have tentacles. (I did say this was drawerfic.) We were just getting into the interesting ramifications of this when my alarm went off and I had to get up for real. No Stephen or Stephen-analogue had yet appeared in the story, though looking back I can feel his shadow stretching all through it. I was sleepy all day.

So Not Making This Up

[22:44] * szzzt is in shock
[22:45] * szzzt just saw the current story by her favoritest mangaka evar, a series so obscure it is nearly impossible to find even in Japan, volume 1 for sale in barnes and noble
[22:45] <szzzt> curse you tokyopop
[22:46] <szzzt> now it will become the next nay-roo-toe
[22:47] <szzzt> people will think that...
[22:47] <szzzt> ...the characters speak with...
[22:47] <szzzt> ...four ellipses in...
[22:47] <szzzt> ...every line, because tokyopop typesetters thought that was good...
[22:48] <szzzt> but on the other hand, someone might write a fanfic
[22:48] * szzzt is cheered by the thought of Silver Diamond fanfic
[22:53] <szzzt> I wish they had translated it better ;_;

This page's broken 1000 pageviews. Awwww!
Only about 200 of them were mine, I think. XD

Since we are about six months into the year, how'm I doing on those resolutions?

Answer: Pretty good! I am actually writing on something and/or drawing on something nearly every day. This hasn't led to an explosion of finished pics or finished fics because grass grows faster than I do either, but it's really fun.

Edit: Sorry, mistyped. This entry's subject should be "Over ONE THOUSAAANNNNND!!!"

Damn smiling people. Why did I have to fall for someone who grins incessantly? Final Fantasy is full of silent emo mopers, bless 'em, just look at Squall and Cloud -- why oh why did I have to pick Zack to try and make an animated icon of?

I mean, an animated icon of Cloud, that'd be easy. Like six frames tops -- he'd blink and sort of sigh and deflate and look more emo. (Like most of Advent Children, really.) (Squall's would have only three frames: in each one another period would get added to his speech bubble.)

But Zack. The bastard. You don't know how badly you lack in the smile-drawing skills until you try to draw someone going from no-smile to grin to full ^_^ and have the motion be natural. Not a grimace, no skipping, natural.

It probably builds my character or something though. Gah.

Working on another Kenshin picture. Not of scaryvampire!Kenshin this time. (Though really, the POV is too far away to tell. One shouldn't assume too much.)

I sort of resolved to try to write a little bit and draw a little bit every day. Mixed results so far, but certainly more results than if this hadn't been on my mind. ^_^