Interesting Observations
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dolphins_logSaturday was certainly busy. I had to get up at a decent enough hour to punch the clock and get some work done for business at home. Not that I punch a clock, I'm on a salary. I still shackle myself to time. I also needed to get enough sleep in to make up for the short sleeps during the week.
After all of the work was done I needed to make a couple of stops in Port Orchard to mail business and personal bills, pay a business bill at the bank, and buy a couple grocery bits. All of that before heading off to the other side of the Sound, a quick jaunt to WonderWorld and then to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
genebreshears and miertam's place for an afternoon work party.
I arrived at about 2:30 and found Gene, Mike, and so many other people who are on my friends list it would get cumbersome if I listed you all here. I soon found myself on Gene's main computer working out a CIS for a character on the Iktome.
For what I was doing it worked out great. I was isolated in Gene and Mike's office (Mike was on his computer)and learning Wordperfect. I've always used Word. I think I could switch. Being isolated from the others was fine in that I could focus on what needed to get done. It took me about an hour and a half to finish the CIS. I then went to transcribing two other CIS's into the computer so that they could be manipulated into the handbook. Both took about an hour plus.
I tried to teach myself not to look at my hands while I typed. I've been a self taught typist (okay, one trimester in high school). I started with "hunt-n-peck" moved to four fingered typing, then six, and finally to using the keyboard as it was meant to be used (almost). I've been using a keyboard long enough where I know where the keys are, but I still look at the board. So yesterday I gave it a shot. I did okay. I'm still doing okay, but I think I may invest in an ergonomic board.
The fun part of the evening... the characters I was transcribing began to talk to my characters. My characters began talking to me. suddenly I had more story ideas then I could keep in my head and I had to jot them down in my PDA.
Observations;
...so... If I immerse myself into the work, then, like any other task I want to learn, it starts to flow a little easier. Now haven't I been learning that all month with my resolutions? hasn't work become a little more exciting, and the workout a little easier to attend? Haven't the morning pages flowed off the pen with ease? I've only started looking toward those artistic resolutions that have slipped by, looking at them with the same excitement that the other successes have generated, but... Doesn't that mean that if I focus on them with the same intensity I will achieve my goals there as well?
[thoughtful_pause]hmmmm... [/thoughtful_pause]
Okay, so most of this is obvious. Practice, practice, practice. In order to learn what you want to learn you have to do what you want to learn. They pretty much pound that into you in school. I may have had the intellectual knowledge of how it's suppose to work. But unless you throw that switch, the one that turns on the emotional light and reveals what you've stored in your mental reference library, unless you have that obvious "Oh! I get it!" then you really haven't learned. You may know already, but you don't really know until you feel it.
After all of the work was done I needed to make a couple of stops in Port Orchard to mail business and personal bills, pay a business bill at the bank, and buy a couple grocery bits. All of that before heading off to the other side of the Sound, a quick jaunt to WonderWorld and then to
genebreshears and miertam's place for an afternoon work party.I arrived at about 2:30 and found Gene, Mike, and so many other people who are on my friends list it would get cumbersome if I listed you all here. I soon found myself on Gene's main computer working out a CIS for a character on the Iktome.
For what I was doing it worked out great. I was isolated in Gene and Mike's office (Mike was on his computer)and learning Wordperfect. I've always used Word. I think I could switch. Being isolated from the others was fine in that I could focus on what needed to get done. It took me about an hour and a half to finish the CIS. I then went to transcribing two other CIS's into the computer so that they could be manipulated into the handbook. Both took about an hour plus.
I tried to teach myself not to look at my hands while I typed. I've been a self taught typist (okay, one trimester in high school). I started with "hunt-n-peck" moved to four fingered typing, then six, and finally to using the keyboard as it was meant to be used (almost). I've been using a keyboard long enough where I know where the keys are, but I still look at the board. So yesterday I gave it a shot. I did okay. I'm still doing okay, but I think I may invest in an ergonomic board.
The fun part of the evening... the characters I was transcribing began to talk to my characters. My characters began talking to me. suddenly I had more story ideas then I could keep in my head and I had to jot them down in my PDA.
Observations;
...so... If I immerse myself into the work, then, like any other task I want to learn, it starts to flow a little easier. Now haven't I been learning that all month with my resolutions? hasn't work become a little more exciting, and the workout a little easier to attend? Haven't the morning pages flowed off the pen with ease? I've only started looking toward those artistic resolutions that have slipped by, looking at them with the same excitement that the other successes have generated, but... Doesn't that mean that if I focus on them with the same intensity I will achieve my goals there as well?
[thoughtful_pause]hmmmm... [/thoughtful_pause]
Okay, so most of this is obvious. Practice, practice, practice. In order to learn what you want to learn you have to do what you want to learn. They pretty much pound that into you in school. I may have had the intellectual knowledge of how it's suppose to work. But unless you throw that switch, the one that turns on the emotional light and reveals what you've stored in your mental reference library, unless you have that obvious "Oh! I get it!" then you really haven't learned. You may know already, but you don't really know until you feel it.
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Speaking of drawing...
There are many, many ways to approach co-illustrating. The first that popped to mind is deciding upon, and then splitting up the individual illustrations. We each draw those, then hand it off to the other to ink. We might even try our hand at making a cover together as well.
Of course, this is all just an idea. But if you're game, I am.
Re: Speaking of drawing...
Date: 2003-01-27 09:13 pm (UTC)I've done a lot of life drawing, but no illo's . So for me, this would be an extremely big challenge.
Okay, I need practice first before I'd be comfortable with this. Let me set my February resolutions and commit to that practice. Then let's return to this idea in March.