Categories: uncategorized
Date: 19 October 2004 10:30:51
Ok today I have some time to type, and the inclination also. The spheres of interest (as one particular religious conglom near me is want to say) are in allignment.
A bit of history and some random factoids about your friendly neighbourhood Blogman. Or should that be Bloghead.
History: I'm Paul, married (11 years) father of 2 (8 and 5, girl and boy). I'm a volunteer youth worker on a Surrey council estate, computer games animator/artist by trade, 50% orange (proof later etc). Hmm what else? Loads else but we'll stick with that for the moment.
Factoid #1: I'm currently drinking coffee. Black with half a spoonful of dark brown muscovado sugar. Very Pleasant indeed.
Factoid #2: I like music. Very much in fact. So while half of my hard disk is taken up with work the other 75 % is filled with music that I listen to as much as I can (all legit I hasten to add...well, actually theres a couple of rare Larry Normans that you cant buy, but 99.5% legit anyhow and I'd buy the Larries like a shot if it were possible). At the moment the hard disk is spinning along merrily to Alison Moyet's voice singing on her latest CD: Voice. Its a humdinger and no mistaking. so occasional updates may contain traces of Moyet.
What else? a lot of my time is spent looking after kids and doing freelance work since the complete implosion of the company I worked for (can't say too much on that at the mo' the situation is currently in front of an employment ttribunal...Suffice it to say that I've been freelance for two and a half months, unpaid for 5 and when my Gamecube broke down the other day it looked like the end of a beautiful relationship...However if I can find my receipt it'll be a huge relief and a miracle...)
Finally the thing that has been keeping me busy for the past two years off and on has been a book: Dr Sylver and the Library of Everything. and by that I mean writing it not reading it (I'm not that slow a reader :P )... Released in September it's been well recieved and reviewed by as diverse a group as the London School of theology books and resources, the National Deaf Childrens Society, journalist and boradcaster Mike Rimmer and OneHundredHours singer Tre Sheppard amongst others..) More info can be gained at the link to the left and I'll mention that sporadically in future posts as well. (The blog isnt a ad-blog though (hopefully...) more a diary of the writing of book 2 + youthwork + other stuff...0
Part of the slowing down process last night included having a pint of Guinness cold (yum), watching the football (yay Pompey. not that I'm a fan of them in particular but I like what they're doing footie wise and Harry makes me smile...) and starting to write book 2, for which I have three possible titles so I shant say what its called just yet.... the difficulty has been that book 1 sort of wrote itself, and book 2 is a little more complicated. I've left a few shoelaces untied from book 1 and I'm jugglig which ones to double loop and which ones to leave the reader to trip from book 2 into book 3. It's a poser and no mistaking. Everyone I've met has asked me to resolve one particular thread from the book so's thats a DEFINATE for book 3 :) :P (and always was, just makes me smile knowing its the first question I'm often asked and the last I'll answer).
My other problem with the writing at the mo' is that I'm a hideously distractible person... At the moment for example I'm juggling a computer game proposal, a 250 page comic, two illustrated books, two video files for a video company, a different book, two childrens book proposals etc etc. Most of the projects are 20% done. The comic is 75% done and the different book is 80% done. Difficult to concentrate on only one thing then, but thats the way it's always been with me...
I think thats enough for now don't you (resounding chorus: YES, sayeth the reader).
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PK.